Technical, economic, and environmental assessment of liquid jet fuel production on aircraft carriers

This work is a first order assessment of the technical feasibility and characteristics of technologies to produce fuel onboard aircraft carriers, which is of interested to the United States Navy. They are interested because the logistical burden and supply chain required for delivering fuel at sea is dangerous, expensive, and subject to changes in markets price for liquid fuels. This work is a first order assessment of the technical feasibility and characteristics of technologies to produce fuel onboard aircraft carriers. The plant is evaluated for three technology pathways: Alkaline electrolysis and the reverse water gas shift (AE+RWGS), solid oxide electrolysis and RWGS (SOEC+RWGS), and co-electrolysis of steam and CO₂. They are evaluated within two scenarios: a small infrequently operating plant leveraging excess nuclear power (Scenario A) and a large frequently operating plant with dedicated nuclear capacity.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Comidy, Liam Jacob Frank,First Lieutenant.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Steven R.H. Barrett.

• Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Statement dc:rights

• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122407

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/122407