Resumo:

Created and developed during the last century, the aviation industry, encompassing the airplane and aeronautic equipment industry, airlines, national defense forces, and general and business aviation companies, airports and all ancillary organizations, is nowadays an essential component of modern economy and life and has been growing at important rates, mainly in developing countries. In this expansion process, to ensure a sustainable, competitive and environmentally sound energy supply is a challenging question.The Sustainable Aviation Biofuels for Brazil Project is an initiative of BOEING, EMBRAER and FAPESP chartered to set a R&D agenda for effective development of production routes of these biofuels, considering the use of proper feedstock, processed by innovative technologies to reach the requirements of a drop-in fuel, under strict sustainability constraints. The project has been developed during 2012 using the methodology of organizing a series of workshops to discuss every relevant issue concerning aviation biofuels and progressively designing a “roadmap” to be adopted in order to overcome the identified hurdles and effectively introduce biofuels in the regular air transportation system.To introduce the context of the Sustainable Aviation Biofuels for Brazil Project, this session presents an overview on: aviation industry and energy, modern biofuels situation, and aviation biofuels evolution in recent years, highlighting the role of government actions in the regulatory and incentives spheres.After these introductory subjects, the chapter goes more deeply into what was presented and discussed in the 1st Workshop of the Project, confirmed when the vision and scope of the project was confirmed by the Stakeholders, and follows on to discuss the necessary aspects to establish a Technology Road Map (TRM).