{"id":286021,"date":"2025-07-23T19:53:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T19:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/286021\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T19:53:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T19:53:18","slug":"sheffield-gets-funding-boost-for-green-jet-fuel-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/286021\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield gets funding boost for green jet fuel research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mohamed Pourkashanian, Professor of Energy Engineering and Head of the Energy Innovation Centre, said he was &#8220;delighted&#8221; by the announcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prof Pourkashanian said: &#8220;More importantly, it is a clear indication of the UK government&#8217;s commitment to both the environment and energy security.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said one of the main challenges for researchers was to negate the cost of SAF, which is more expensive than using fossil jet fuel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One method being trialled is to capture carbon emissions created by other industrial processes, which can then be converted into SAF.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the next-generation technology being explored could reduce the price of producing SAF by &#8220;a minimum of 20%&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prof Pourkashanian said the team hoped Sheffield would be recognised at an international level, which would encourage companies to invest in the region&#8217;s production of SAF and create local jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mohamed Pourkashanian, Professor of Energy Engineering and Head of the Energy Innovation Centre, said he was &#8220;delighted&#8221; by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-286021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114904302254658309","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}