Sentences with phrase «aviation fuels from»

To make aviation fuels from biomass, PNNL researchers are crafting catalytic zeolites with wider «lanes» to prevent molecular crashes and extend the life of catalysts designed to turn bio-oil to fuel.

This gave the opportunity for the renegotiation of ASAs to remove clauses which exempted aviation fuel from taxation.

Not exact matches

As Calgary - based consultant Rick Erickson puts it, «If you cut his arm, I swear, aviation fuel would spill from his veins.»

While shipping is slowly moving away from fuel oil towards substitutes such as natural gas, there's no obvious alternative to oil in sight for commercial aviation.

He said: «In continuation of the counter insurgency, the air component in the last one month conducted 286 operational sorties against terrorists» targets from 25 December to date in the Sambisa forest covering an area of 157,000 km2 which is equivalent to the total land mass of South Korea, Portugal and Togo in a total of 536 hours, 21 minutes were flown by various platforms engaged in the operations, «This translates into 316,637.5 litres of aviation fuel which amounts to N60.3 million, excluding the cost of maintenance and armament expended.»

The money was paid from the airport fund, which receives revenues from airport landing fees, aviation fuel sales, and other money raised at the airport.

The Greens make no bones about who will pay for it — they will introduce a 2 % wealth tax on the top 1 %; a Robin Hood tax on financial transactions; increase corporation tax from 20 % to 30 %; increase fuel duty on aviation; impose an additional 60 % top rate income tax band and a plethora of other measures.

Whether for supersonic fighter jets or commercial airliners, the aviation world has begun a quest for the fuel of the future, transitioning away from petroleum - derived JP - 8 and Jet A varieties to Fischer - Tropsch synthetics or biofuels.

United Airlines recently purchased a refinery to supply its planes with aviation fuel made entirely from municipal solid waste and Alaska Airlines, Southwest Airlines and British Airways have announced plans to begin using biofuels in the next two to five years.

«Converting waste water from dairies to animal feed and aviation fuel.»

The foundation has grants from companies, government agencies, and other foundations to develop eight new prizes, including competitions involving health care, tuberculosis, and alternative aviation fuels.

Ian Poll, professor of aerospace engineering at the Cranfield University in England, in a recent lecture covered by the Times of London called for a «big research program to help the aviation industry convert from fossil fuels to nuclear energy.»

In commercial aviation, the push for lightweight materials came from fuel price concerns.

«Certainly the data from our biofuel test flight will be a critical component towards helping biofuel become a certified aviation fuel,» Air New Zealand's general manager of airline operations and chief pilot, Capt. David Morgan, said in a statement.

One rough draft urged the «reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from international aviation and marine bunker fuels,» according to Transport & Environment, a Brussels - headquartered advocacy group.

887 GtCO ₂ is the emissions from burning 285.6 Gt of kerosene (e.g., aviation fuel, home heating oil or the like, approximating that as C ₁₂ H ₂₆ and not dramatically different for diesel or petrol / gasoline).

They include removing domestic content requirements for solar and wind energy projects, hiking the aviation fuel tax from 2.7 cents a litre to 6.7 cents over four years and freezing MPP salaries until the deficit is eliminated.

The province plans to hike taxes for individuals earning more than $ 150,000 as well as levies on aviation fuel and tobacco, and create an Ontario pension plan that will require contributions from both employees and companies.

According to Congressional Budget Office data, more than 90 percent of aviation excise taxes came from taxing passenger air fares, with the remaining coming from taxes on air cargo and aviation fuels.

He said Garuda Indonesia's losses were mainly caused by the price hike in aviation turbine fuel (avtur) as spending on the fuel rose last year by 54 percent from $ 189.8 million to $ 292.3 million.

«We hope to achieve new technological solutions in order to lower airborne pollution from air travel and to change public perceptions of what is possible in the field of alternative aviation fuels and technologies,» she said.»

More from The Guardian: «Sarah Evans, vice-president for communications at the X Prize Foundation, said that the foundation would bring together experts in the aviation and green technology sectors, including representatives from the Federal Aviation Authority's commercial aviation alternative fuel initiative, to hammer out the exact details of the competition, with the aim of announcing final plans in summer next year.

887 GtCO ₂ is the emissions from burning 285.6 Gt of kerosene (e.g., aviation fuel, home heating oil or the like, approximating that as C ₁₂ H ₂₆ and not dramatically different for diesel or petrol / gasoline).

The fuel was supplied by SkyNRG, an aviation biofuels company, and made by Dynamic Fuels, a producer of «next - generation» fuels made from used cookingFuels, a producer of «next - generation» fuels made from used cookingfuels made from used cooking oil.

Powerful impetus from other sectors is enough to keep oil demand on a rising trajectory to 105 mb / d by 2040: oil use to produce petrochemicals is the largest source of growth, closely followed by rising consumption for trucks (fuel - efficiency policies cover 80 % of global car sales today, but only 50 % of global truck sales), for aviation and for shipping.

Point five addresses bringing people out of poverty and calls for putting «an end to the fossil fuel era, phasing out fossil fuel emissions, including emissions from military aviation and shipping and providing affordable, reliable and safe renewable energy access for all.»

By contrast aviation fuel, which is mainly exempt from the carbon tax, 4 did not follow this pattern; its sales changed about equally in BC and the rest of Canada during this period — further suggesting that the carbon tax contributed to the differences in the use of the other (taxed) fuels.

I think the key to future liquid fuels (and a couple of small industries like farming and aviation) will be cheap hydrogen from nuclear.

The American Lung Association supports reducing the sulfur levels in all gasoline, diesel, aviation, and marine fuels, and toxic air pollutants from all mobile sources.

Manfred Treber, senior adviser climate / transport, Germanwatch said: «The Kyoto Protocol adopted in 1997 had stated that the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) should pursue the limitation or reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol from international aviation, the IMO should do this for emissions from marine bunker fuels.

Emissions from aviation and marine bunker fuels used in international transport do not enter into any national undertakings.

NextGen should also reduce the aviation industry's environmental impact, saving more than 1.4 billion gallons of fuel from air traffic operations alone, and cutting carbon emissions by nearly 14 million tons by 2018, the FAA says

Cathay Pacific Airways has made a strategic equity investment in Fulcrum BioEnergy — a pioneer in the development and commercialization of converting municipal solid waste (MSW) into sustainable aviation fuel (earlier post)-- as part of the airline's biofuel strategy and to help it achieve a target of carbon - neutral growth from 2020.

The introduction of biofuels could mitigate some of aviation's carbon emissions, if biofuels can be developed to meet the demanding specifications of the aviation industry, although both the costs of such fuels and the emissions from their production process are uncertain at this time (medium agreement, medium evidence)[5.3.3].

Other options include the transfer of IMF - created «special drawing rights» (reserve assets created by the International Monetary Fund that countries can exchange for hard currency) from rich to poorer countries, redirecting harmful fossil - fuel subsidies, reducing spending on ballooning military budgets, and taxing aviation and shipping.

Emissions from international aviation and shipping fuel (bunkers), in billions of tonnes (1,000 Tg) of CO2 equivalent.

Yet, according to ICAO's 2013 projections, shown in the graph below, emissions from the aviation industry are set to grow 200 % -360 % on current levels by 2050, including the maximum use of lower - carbon alternative fuels.

Emissions from fuel used for international aviation and maritime transport.

Information relevant to emissions from fuel used for international aviation and maritime transport.

The list is long and worth many billions (sorry for caps); — GREENHOUSE GAS ABATEMENT PROGM (Carbon capture)-- NON-RECOVERY OF PUBLIC AGENCY COSTS — PETROLEUM EXPLORATION TAX CONCESSIONS — RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE — DIRECT SUBSIDIES TO FOSSIL FUEL PROJECTS — DIESEL FUEL REBATE SCHEME — EXEMPTION FROM EXCISE FOR ALTERNATIVE FUELS Ethanol production which is an energy sink)-- CONCESSIONAL RATE OF EXCISE FOR FUEL OIL, — HEATING OIL AND KEROSENE — CONCESSIONAL RATE OF EXCISE FOR AVIATION FUEL — EXCISE FREE STATUS FOR CONDENSATE — SUBSIDISED SUPPLY OF COAL - FIRED ELECTRICITY TO — ALUMINIUM SMELTERS — STATE ENERGY SUPPLY CONCESSIONS — ELECTRICITY PRICING STRUCTURES — SUBSIDIES FOR CENTRALISED GENERATION

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will spend $ 250 million to establish and operate two new Bioenergy Research Centers to accelerate basic research on the development of cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels from biomass, including biodiesel, biofuels for aviation, and biologically based hydrogen and other fuels from sunlight.

Biofuels present the aviation industry with a convenient blind alley, facilitating the industry's expansion plans and avoiding pressure to reduce their fuel use and diverting political attention from the real need to cut air travel in order to reduce climate change.

It really does seem like a scaling up of made - from - waste aviation fuels is inevitable.

With FIDO operational, Guy worked on a number of different projects, including research on the efficiency of fuel cells, research on German aviation fuel as inferred from the spectrographic analysis of aircraft exhaust, not to mention the design and testing of fuel baffles, experimental forest - clearing devices, and fuel propellant systems (including flamethrowers — an application the pacifically - minded Guy must have disliked.)

Shell Aviation is a world leader in marketing aviation fuel and operating airport fuelling facilities and has a huge range of knowledge on everything from formulating better fuels to designing and managing cost - effective installations.

Though not yet ready for commercial production, the Indiana - based company says that it has developed a bio-aviation fuel made from landfill waste, sorghum, algae and wood chips which it says will be cheaper to produce and perform better than current aviation fuels.

This tax refund case set the precedent in the interpretation and construction of local Philippine taxation laws on imposition of excise taxes to aviation fuel purchased by international carriers for consumption outside the Philippines and its treaty obligations arising from the Chicago Convention and various bilateral air service agreements with other countries.

«We are bound by the 1944 Chicago Convention and subsequent protocols that forbid us from taxing aviation fuel» (HL Deb vol 617 col 1195 18 October, 2000).

As a result, from 1 January 2004 the UK could legally impose a domestic tax on aviation fuel for UK registered flights when flying domestic routes.

The articles and annexes to the convention such as Art 24 (a) merely prevent a member of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) from taxing aviation fuel that is already onboard an aircraft when landing in another state.