In the past year and a half, commercial airlines have flown four successful test flights using a variety of biofuel -
jet fuel blends.
Not exact matches
To power this week's Los Angeles - to - Melbourne flight of the new Qantas Boeing 787 - 9, Agrisoma's biojet
fuel is replacing 10 % of the petroleum
jet fuel needed for the flight, making for a cleaner
fuel blend and...
In a short but historic flight, one of the company's Boeing 747 - 400s flew more than 200 miles (320 kilometers) from London Heathrow Airport to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, reaching a peak altitude of 25,000 feet (7,600 meters) during the 40 - minute flight, with one of its four engines burning a
blend of 20 percent coconut and babassu oils mixed with regular petroleum - based
jet fuel.
Continental
jet 516 — a two - engine Boeing 737 - 800 — completed a two hour test flight out of Houston today with one engine powered by a 50 - 50
blend of regular petroleum - based
jet fuel and a synthetic alternative made from Jatropha and algae.
«The
blend - stock can be mixed into gasoline at higher concentrations than ethanol's current limit of 10 percent; plus it can be added to diesel and
jet fuel.
The resulting liquid can be
blended at various concentrations into gasoline, diesel and
jet fuels without negatively affecting engine performance.
«Our method of direct conversion of ethanol offers a pathway to produce suitable hydrocarbon
blend - stock that may be
blended at a refinery to yield
fuels such as gasoline, diesel and
jet fuel or commodity chemicals,» Narula said.
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.
Air New Zealand said yesterday that using a 50 percent
blend of biofuel with traditional
jet A-1
fuel can improve
fuel efficiency by more than 1 percent, according to data collected during the December 2008 test flight.
Specifically, Doug Rodante, president of Green Flight International (a company in Florida that promotes alternative aviation
fuels), and chief test pilot Carol Sugars, a senior pilot with the United Parcel Service (UPS), conducted extensive
fuel tests on the ground, beginning with a 20 percent
blend of biodiesel and normal
jet fuel (kerosene known as Jet A) and progressing to 100 percent biodiesel (B100) as their confidence increas
jet fuel (kerosene known as
Jet A) and progressing to 100 percent biodiesel (B100) as their confidence increas
Jet A) and progressing to 100 percent biodiesel (B100) as their confidence increased.
The Ram
Jet 502
blends the legendary torque and performance of the Big - Block with a modern port
fuel injection system and tunnel ram - style high - rise intake manifold.
Biofuels Make Serious Reductions to Flying's Carbon Emissions Which is good news indeed considering that tests show that the carbon emissions from flying can be reduced 84 % using cameline - based
jet fuel; and that results from the aforementioned Continental Airlines flight and from an Air New Zealand test flight late in 2008 show that the
blend of biofuel and conventional
jet fuel they used reduced emissions by at least 60 %.
Two other projects are afoot in the middle of the country, including one that is already producing renewable diesel that can be
blended into
jet fuel at a ratio of one part in 10 as soon as ASTM gives the green light.
Drop - in renewable diesel or bio-
jet are essentially indistinguishable from conventional diesel and
jet fuel and can be
blended at almost any level, making it an attractive option for military or airline use.
Using Fischer - Tropsch (FT) synthetic
fuel or
blend can significantly reduce gaseous particulate matter and gaseous emissions compared to standard military
jet (JP - 8)
fuel when used in a T63 gas - turbine helicopter engine, according to a new study by a team from the Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies, Carnegie Mellon University and... Read more →
There's more: The biofuel in question will be
blended 50/50 with regular
jet fuel, and will be produced from Jatropha, an inedible plant that can be grown on soils where food plants can not thrive (you can read more on TreeHugger about jatropha biofuels).