Sentences with word «camelina»

Because the process makes a blend of hydrocarbons, it does not lack the aromatic compounds that seal aircraft engines, like the biojet fuel produced from camelina oil by UOP.

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.

The DC - 8's four engines burned either JP - 8 jet fuel or a 50 - 50 blend of JP - 8 and renewable alternative fuel made from camelina plant oil.

Like camelina seed meal, broccoli contains the flavonoid quercetin, so they decided to look for synergy between sulforaphane and quercetin.

While the Air Force experiments with camelina - based biofuels, the engineers here have tested chicken fat as a jet fuel.

The Navy commissioned the USS Makin Island, its first electric - drive surface combatant, and tested an F / A -18 engine on camelina - based biofuel in 2009 — two key steps toward the vision of deploying a «green» carrier strike group using biofuel and nuclear power by 2016.

By modifying the oilseed biochemistry in camelina, the researchers were able to get very high levels of the modified oil, which are called acetyl - TAGS.

Brenton Sharratt and William Schillinger found that adding camelina or safflower crops into a rotation with winter wheat and summer fallow increased the amount of dust at the end of tillage - based fallow or when wheat is planted.

Todaro's firm is growing camelina on fallow fields in Montana, the Dakotas, Idaho, Washington and the High Plains of Texas.

I formulated my homemade callus treatment balm using natural skin conditioning carrier oils like coconut oil and camelina seed oil.

The results for camelina were not as clear.

Bio-jet fuels derived from oil - rich feedstocks, such as camelina and algae, have been successfully tested in proof of concept flights.

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.

This past March, an A-10 Thunderbolt II streaked across the sky near an Ohio Air Force base, powered by a 50 - 50 blend of standard jet fuel and biofuel made from a plant called camelina.

Canola and camelina also provide oilseed meal by - products, used for livestock feed.

They found that all four major camelina bioactives induced the detoxifying liver enzyme NQO1 when they were used alone.

Most camelina varieties are new to cultivation in the United States.

Over the course of three growing seasons, the UC Davis team planted more than 40 varieties of canola and over 60 types of camelina at multiple locations throughout the state.

There is also ongoing controversy surrounding some of the plants used to make the jet biofuel, which include not only camelina and algae but also Jatropha, among others.

In the best camelina lines, about 85 percent of the oil was comprised of the modified acetyl - TAGs.

So I went to a goat cheese booth, where a cute man from Redwood Hill Farm in Sonoma County, Calif., sold me some local camelina cheese.

The California Air Resources Board has issued Sustainable Oils Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Global Clean Energy Holdings, a feedstock - only pathway for the production of camelina - based fuels under the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS).

Using a 50 — 50 blend of regular jet fuel and biofuel refined from camelina oil in one of its four engines, the flight carried 42 «observers» for an hour on November 23 from Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, enough to fill business class, according to chemist Jennifer Holmgren, who was on board.

Within three to five years, they hope to move to more sustainable and efficient feedstocks like forest waste, crop residuals, and municipal solid waste before transitioning finally to inedible plant oils like camelina, jatropha, and algae oil.

«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.

By modifying the oilseed biochemistry in camelina, the researchers have achieved very high levels of an oil with reduced viscosity and improved cold temperature characteristics.

Their findings show that adding camelina or safflower into the crop rotation increased the chances of wind erosion late in the fallow cycle.

«Growing camelina, safflower in the Pacific Northwest.»

This final rule describes EPA's evaluation of biofuels produced from camelina oil and energy cane, as well as renewable gasoline and renewable gasoline blendstock made from certain qualifying feedstocks.

The biofuel came from the camelina plant, a member of the mustard family.

In a push toward greener fuels, the Air Force has modified some of these jets to fly on a biofuel derived from camelina, a relative of the mustard plant.

In the study, camelina and safflower were grown in three - year rotations with winter wheat and summer fallow.

Kaffka's team looked at growing canola and camelina.

Oilseed crops, including rapeseed, canola, and camelina, contain some of the same bioactive ingredients — namely, glucosinolates and flavonoids — found in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables and in nearly the same quantities, she noted.

«Worldwide, canola and camelina have been used to diversify cereal - based agricultural systems,» say the researchers.

The researcher's wind tunnel «in action» during a test on a camelina plot.

A cooperative study by the USDA - ARS and Washington State University researched the effects of growing oilseed crops — camelina and safflower — on blowing dust emissions.

However, it «displayed greater cold and drought tolerance, so the possibility of camelina being viable for particular niches in California should be investigated further,» says Kaffka.

There are many new varieties of canola and camelina.

In the first study of camelina's bioactive properties, Berhow isolated four major components — three glucosinolates and the flavonoid quercetin — from its defatted seed meal.

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.

Camelina grower Sustainable Oils — which provided the camelina oil to make the 1,000 gallons of jet fuel needed for the KLM flight — plans to cover more than 20,000 hectares in Montana with the weedy relative of canola, enough to deliver some 9.5 million liters of raw oil.

AltAir does better by sourcing its bio — jet fuel from oil seed — bearing plants, like camelina, but that limits the amount that can be planted in rotation with food crops like wheat given constraints on the amount of land available for the latter.

The researchers think that camelina producing acetyl - TAGs is a renewable resource with potential industrial uses, including plasticizers, biodegradable lubricants and food emulsifiers.

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.

Boeing was involved in all four flights, including a Virgin Atlantic flight using a coconut - and babassu - derived biofuel blend; an Air New Zealand flight using a jatropha - derived biofuel blend; a Continental Airlines flight using a blend of algae - and jatropha - derived biofuel; and a Japan Airlines flight using an algae -, jatropha - and camelina - derived biofuel blend.