Sentences with phrase «as camelina»
Bio-jet fuels derived from oil - rich feedstocks, such as camelina and algae, have been successfully tested in proof of concept flights.
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While the Air Force experiments with camelina - based biofuels, the engineers here have tested chicken fat as a jet fuel.
As the company has demonstrated elsewhere in the world, it is possible to make jet fuel from plant oils — whether they come from jatropha seeds, the flowering weed camelina or any other oil - producing plant.
A similar study by Michigan Technological University sponsored by UOP found that jet biofuel from camelina could reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by as much as 84 percent and be grown in rotation with wheat crops.
«As had been the case with camelina's GSL9 and quercetin, the combined effect of quercetin and sulforaphane — in proportions found naturally in broccoli — was far greater than when either was used alone.
The camelina genome was recently sequenced, which has greatly helped Durrett and collaborators as they improve camelina's oil properties to produce low - viscosity oil — the kind of oil needed for biofuel.
Jet fuels derived from algae, camelina and jatropha — plants that pack an energy punch, are not eaten as food and do not displace food crops — could be approved and replacing petroleum fuels in commercial flights as early as next year, a Boeing executive said yesterday.
But he said the United States has the potential to produce about 1 billion gallons of camelina oil a year in areas as diverse as Georgia and New Mexico.
Non-food plant sources, such as jatropha and camelina, are promising, but difficult to produce in large quantities and can end up displacing food crops or lead to deforestation if the price of fuel rises high enough.