Synthetic liquid biofuels

Synthetic liquid biofuels are produced by sub-processes based on gasification and the Fischer-Tropsch process.

All the liquid biofuels currently on the market either use source materials that originate from the food supply chain, or their carbon dioxide balance is only slightly better than that of fossil liquid fuels. As they are of poorer quality than synthetic liquid biofuels, they can only be added to current fossil liquid fuels in limited quantities.

Second-generation Liquid Biofuels

Synthetic liquid biofuels are also called second-generation liquid biofuels to differentiate them from the first-generation liquid biofuels currently on the market. The first-generation biofuels are largely based on raw materials originating from the food supply chain.

Gasification and Fischer-Tropsch have been in use for a long time to produce synthetic liquid fuels from coal, and they are increasingly used to turn natural gas into synthetic liquid fuels. The quality of all synthetic liquid fuels is the same regardless of the source raw material.