Sentences with phrase «jet fuel blends»
In the past year and a half, commercial airlines have flown four successful test flights using a variety of biofuel - jet fuel blends.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/ 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 increasjet fuel (kerosene known as Jet A) and progressing to 100 percent biodiesel (B100) as their confidence increasJet 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).