Low Carbon Fuels Course

Overview

Programme Content

The approximately five-hour programme, comprising more than 110 professionally developed learning slides, covers the major technologies shaping the future of low-carbon fuels.

Topics include:

  • the continuing role of dense liquid and gaseous fuels;

  • energy density and the limitations of full electrification;

  • hydrogen production, storage and utilization;

  • renewable and low-carbon hydrogen pathways;

  • sustainable aviation fuel;

  • HEFA, Alcohol-to-Jet, Fischer–Tropsch and Power-to-Liquids;

  • renewable diesel and refinery co-processing;

  • first-, second- and emerging-generation biofuels;

  • methanol, e-methanol and synthetic fuels;

  • ammonia and alternative energy carriers;

  • carbon capture and CO₂ utilization;

  • technology maturity and scale-up;

  • feedstock and supply-chain constraints;

  • lifecycle and carbon-accounting considerations;

  • infrastructure and operational readiness;

  • ERoEI and energy-system efficiency; and

  • the commercial realities of deploying low-carbon fuels.

Practical Low-Carbon Fuels Training for Technical, Commercial and Leadership Teams

The energy transition is creating an increasingly complex range of fuel and technology choices.

SAF, renewable diesel, hydrogen, methanol, ammonia, biofuels and Power-to-Liquids all have potential roles - but they differ significantly in technology maturity, energy efficiency, feedstock requirements, infrastructure needs, lifecycle performance and commercial readiness.

The North American Sciences Low Carbon Fuels Programme is designed to give corporate teams a practical understanding of these technologies and, critically, where they can realistically be deployed.

Rather than focusing only on policy targets or theoretical emissions reductions, the programme examines the technologies from an industrial and deployment perspective:

What works?
Where does it work?
What does it require?
What are the limitations?
What should organizations be watching next?

What Makes the Programme Different?

The course is developed from an industrial technology-deployment perspective, rather than solely from an academic, policy or sustainability perspective.

Marc Abbott previously served as Global Technology Deployment Lead with Shell and has advised executive leadership on emerging technology investment, technology maturation and deployment.

North American Sciences now works with organizations across North America on low-carbon fuels, technology viability, project deployment and operational readiness.

The objective is therefore not simply to explain what low-carbon technologies are.

It is to help participants understand which technologies are credible, where they fit, what their limitations are and what must happen before they can be deployed successfully.