About CESTAP

The mission of CESTAP is to establish the leading centre for research related to sustainable turbine fuels in Europe, with a specific focus on the Swedish prerequi-sites in terms of feedstock for future fuels. Taking regulatory and industrial needs into account we aim at building methods, processes and knowledge that enable production, evaluation and use of high-performance sustainable turbine fuels for 100% fossil free aviation and power generation. Novel synthesis routes of fuels from biomass will be developed, and a test-bed will be set up for evaluation of new sustainable fuels. The main focus will be on fuels from feedstock available in Sweden, but the test-bed will be suitable for the evaluation of all types of turbine fuels, potentially including e-fuels, synthetic fuels, and solar fuels.

CESTAP will include three principal academic partners, Lund University, LU, Luleå University of Technology, LTU, and Research institutes of Sweden, RISE, that will carry out the majority of the research and work closely together with the companies and public partners to complete the value-chain from research to utilization. Lund University is the coordinating partner, with the Department of Energy Sciences taking the leading role.

CESTAP includes 25 companies and public partners with an interest to move towards use of non-fossil, sustainable fuels. The partners cover a wide range of businesses and operation, some in the forefront of the transition whilst other are just starting their work towards a fossil-free operation. The complexity of the challenge is such that no partner can take this on singlehandedly, but a collective effort, drawing on the different competencies, capacities, and experiences, is necessary.