Team Member

• Prof. Suzana Yusup (Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP)
  
• Dr. Armando T. Quitain (Kumamoto University)
  
• Dr. Yiin Chung Loong (Swinburne University of Technology)
  
• Dr. Elisabeth Rianawati (RDI Indonesia)
  
• Prof Suttichai Assabumrungrat (Chulalongkorn University Thailand)

Background

The extreme utilization of fossil fuels and the corresponding environmental effects inclusive of global warming and environmental-friendly pollution have become a global problem and urged people to aggressively search for cheap, environmentally friendly and renewable energy. In the ASEAN alone, the energy-related carbon emissions are predicted to rise two times in 2035. This increase is commensurate with the increase in the regional energy demand due to improved public welfare, low retail oil prices (due to subsidies), and inadequate mass transports. To improve the situation, a strategic policy can be directed to the transportation sector, which increasingly consumes a large amount of energy every year, which is dominated by fossil fuel. One of the important transport modes that have a specific challenge for decarbonization is airplane. Not only it is not applicable for electric vehicle strategy like for road transport, the aviation industry is projected to have a significantly larger market in ASEAN in a near future. Therefore, a progressive development towards a clean energy solution of biomass for the aviation industry that is later known as bio-jet fuel and is becoming more urgent to be realized.