"Jet fuel" refers to a type of specialized fuel used to power airplanes, especially jet engines.
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The test flights are part of an aviation industry plan to derive 1 percent
of jet fuel from petroleum alternatives by 2015, or roughly 600 million gallons a year.
The same fats and oils can also be made into a substitute
for jet fuel using a related process.
Right now, that means fossil fuels, but what if we could create
jet fuel from sources that are at least carbon neutral?
Drinking a soda is like putting
jet fuel in a regular vehicle.
Fuel makes up about 30 % of an airline's total expenses, so a 25 % decline in
jet fuel prices implies a 7.5 % decrease in costs, all else being equal.
However, recent European discussions of imposing taxes
on jet fuel are a promising development.
We have cut our consumption of
jet fuel by probably 50 % per seat over the last 20 years.
The military is entirely dependent on petroleum -
derived jet fuel to meet its transportation needs.
The resulting liquid can be blended at various concentrations into gasoline, diesel and
jet fuels without negatively affecting engine performance.
The company will likely tackle diesel and
jet fuel next, and it may have a significant advantage.
In fact, more than 60 percent of the government's energy consumption is for transport —
particularly jet fuel.
Now, if only the stars would cut down on all that
jet fuel wasted on their private planes.
As alternative
jet fuels start to enter the supply chain, there may be a need to keep track of such fuel for technical, regulatory, and commercial reasons.
Counsel to a leading international aviation ground services provider in a matter involving injuries sustained by
accidental jet fuel release.
Information like that likely will help the industry get second - generation biofuels certified as drop - in replacements
for jet fuel.
I am very interested in the economic viability of petrol, diesel,
jet fuel from sea water using nuclear energy for both electricity and for producing the required hydrogen.
One the other hand, these suggestions might serve as a tempting dose
of jet fuel for what is already a good match.
Most significantly,
jet fuel prices rose almost 500 percent between 2002 and 2008.
These alternative fuels will be more environmentally friendly, on a life cycle basis, than today's petroleum -
based jet fuels.
This new technology is scalable, sustainable and can be commercially produced as a cost comparable to
conventional jet fuel.
It remains unclear, however, how much such passenger - funded partnerships do to alleviate climate change and they are a poor substitute for a carbon - neutral
alternative jet fuel.
«We estimate that this biofuel would cost the airline industry $ 5.31 / gallon, which is less than most of the reported prices of
renewable jet fuel produced from other oil crops or algae,» said Deepak Kumar, a postdoctoral researcher at Illinois, who led the analysis.
Hawaii even has an ongoing effort to turn ocean thermal energy conversion technology into a reality, as well as an actual algal agriculture industry — the algae are largely grown for nutraceutical purposes but have also been turned
into jet fuel on the mainland by UOP.
Along the paths and across the lawns, little kids skip to ultracompetitive kindergartens with visions of Fox News war - on - terror graphics dancing in their heads, counting off the seconds till the next History Channel investigation of the special relationship of steel with
burning jet fuel.
I guess Richard Branson, who's trying to
make jet fuel with algae, and / or the engineers at Los Alamos looking to turn CO2 back into liquid fuel had better get busy.
Believed to be the world's first alternative
jet fuel produced from wood, the fuel meets international ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) standards, allowing it to be used safely for today's commercial flight.
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A core group of 15 commercial airlines has signed non-binding memoranda of understanding (MOUs) for negotiating purchases from two different producers of
synthetic jet fuel: AltAir Fuels LLC and RenTech Inc..
That's the message of OriginOil, a Los Angeles, California, company that's been contracted by the Mexican government to produce 1 percent of the nation's
jet fuel using algae in the next five years.
As
jet fuel costs rise in accordance with oil prices — and already fuel has overtaken labour as airlines» biggest expense — air travel could risk becoming unaffordable for the average person.
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.
While Delta's intent was to remain neutral, some elected officials in Georgia tied our decision to a pending
jet fuel tax exemption, threatening to eliminate it unless we reversed course.
This in turn would extrapolate to an additional 480,000 US gallons of
jet fuel consumed, and an additional 4.6 million kilograms of carbon dioxide emitted, each year.
We estimate that compared to soybeans, lipidcane containing 5 percent oil could produce four times
more jet fuel per acre of land.
Both the Air Force in December and Airbus earlier this month completed flights powered by synfuel —
liquid jet fuel made from coal or natural gas.
Now that they have been up there putting aluminum, barium, strontium and a mix of other poisons along with an influx of
jet fuel emissions its going to be all that much harder to clean up our atmosphere.
The company relies on preexisting, industrial, demonstration - scale fermentation infrastructure to test and optimize its process, and has been able to achieve conversion of 70 — 80 % of biomass into oil - based fuel
including jet fuel and biodiesel, which has been road - tested for more than a year in an unblended form in unmodified engines.
Renewable Aviation Fuel Being Developed by Swift Enterprises Virgin Atlantic Testing Biofuel on Jumbo Jet X-Prize to Offer $ 10m for Sustainable Jet Fuel
The unique
Ram Jet fuel injection system stands 11 inches tall at its highest point and consists of a two - piece manifold / plenum assembly, eight injectors, a throttle body, and an updated MEFI 4 controller.
Having written about massive on - site composting, freeganism and
even jet fuel made from food waste, it would be fair to say that I am