John Buxton

SAF Specialist

Dr John Buxton is a seasoned aviation fuel professional who has held senior technical roles in Shell Aviation and Kuwait Petroleum International Aviation as well as chairing the influential Joint Inspection Group (JIG) and numerous technical committees. He currently enjoys consulting and writing on sustainability in aviation fuel as well as providing technical expertise on SAF training and leadership on SAF projects worldwide. He splits his time between the UK and Hungary.

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Can SAF Scale Up to Meet Demand?

Insight Focus Fischer-Tropsch and HEFA lead current SAF production glo...

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How Co-Processing Boosts SAF Production Efficiency

Insight Focus Co-processing is an alternative to blending SBC with jet...

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Strict Blending Rules Could Slow SAF Adoption

Insight Focus SAF must be blended into CJF and certified. Blending is ...

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Why Blending Sustainable Aviation Fuel Requires Precision

Insight Focus Blending SAF involves adding sustainable components (SBC...

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Clean Hydrogen Feedstock in Aviation Challenged by Scale

Insight Focus It’s touted as a fuel of the future, but how clean is ...

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Hydrogen’s Crucial Role in SAF Production

Insight Focus Hydrogen plays a key role in sustainable aviation fuel p...

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Exploring Hydrogen as a Sustainable Aviation Fuel

Insight Focus Hydrogen presents significant potential for sustainable ...

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Why SAF Can Help Combat Contrails

Insight Focus Managing contrails is vital for reducing aviation’s cl...

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More Needs to Be Done for SAF Adoption Says Cambridge

Insight Focus The aviation industry’s net-zero goals face hurdle...

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Making SAF by the Fischer Tropsch Processes – A Curate’s Egg?

Insight Focus SAF can be made by the Fischer Tropsch process using a r...

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The Pros and Cons of the HEFA Pathway for SAF

Insight Focus Aside from crude oil, HEFA is still the preferred pathwa...

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How Can We Make SAF More Viable?

Insight Focus SAF is the fuel of the future – so why is there such l...

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Why is SAF Penetration Still So Low?

Insight Focus Despite huge government subsidies, investments by airlin...

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How to GUARD Against False SAF Accounting

Insight Focus While SAF is big business these days, there are always r...

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Who Benefits When We Use SAF?

Insight Focus Emissions reduction takes a lot of work, but who gets th...

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How Do We Measure Aviation Emissions?

Insight Focus We must calculate aviation emissions accurately. This is...

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Why SAF is the Best Tool to Reduce Net Carbon Emissions

Insight Focus Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is the only realistic ro...

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SAF Supply and Demand Dynamics

Insight Focus There are a few well-established production pathways for...

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How Do We Make Sustainable Aviation Fuel?

Insight Focus Jet A needs to have certain characteristics to be classi...

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How Can We Make Sure Sustainable Aviation Fuel is Safe?

Insight Focus When creating SAF, it is important that the process is s...

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The Basics of Sustainable Aviation Fuel: Where Are We Now?

Insight Focus The aviation industry is responsible for about 2% of glo...

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