Sentences with phrase «jet fuel using»

The same fats and oils can also be made into a substitute for jet fuel using a related process.

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 %.

Once the researchers thermochemically split the water and carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide and hydrogen (syngas), they sent the syngas to Shell Global Solutions in Amsterdam, where the Fischer - Tropsch process was applied to refine it into kerosene, the jet fuel used by airplanes.

Scientists with the SOLAR - JET Project have demonstrated the first - ever entire process to make kerosene, the jet fuel used by commercial airlines, using a high - temperature thermal solar reactor to create syngas.

Scientists with the SOLAR - JET Project have demonstrated the first - ever entire process to make kerosene, the jet fuel used by commercial airlines, using a high - temperature thermal solar reactor -LSB-...]

Not exact matches

But kerosene or rocket - propellant grade kerosene, which is also what jets use — rockets use a very expensive form, a highly refined form of jet fuel, essentially, which is a form of kerosene.

In the aerospace industry, GE is using metal systems to make stronger, lighter fuel injectors for its LEAP jet engines.

The first stage used Rocket Propellant - 1, a form of kerosene similar to jet fuel, while the second and third stages relied on liquid hydrogen for fuel.

During my visit, I'm not allowed inside the two buildings where Bombardier is developing its Learjet 85 and Global 7000 and 8000 business jets, product lines that will use new composite - construction technology to reduce weight and improve fuel efficiency.

Rhenium is used with platinum as a catalyst in the production of lead - free, high - octane fuels and combined with tungsten and molybdenum to make metal alloys used in jet engines.

Those tests included repeatedly filling up the rocket with cryogenically cooled RP - 1, a type of kerosene used in jets, and liquid oxygen to combust the fuel.

It said its fuel warning does not extend to aircraft that use jet fuel, also known in the industry as «Jet A.&raqjet fuel, also known in the industry as «Jet A.&raqJet A.»

GE acquired 3D - printing specialists Morris Technologies in 2012, and uses 3D printing to make fuel nozzles for its new LEAP jet engine.

Notably, GE's new jet engine uses a series of sophisticated 3 - D - printed fuel nozzles; they are lighter and far more durable because intricate cooling channels have been built into them.

Read the post, HOW TO BUY 100 % RAW ALMONDS if you don't know the ins and outs of almond pasteurization (it's required by law and most use an application of a propylene oxide (jet fuel) that «evaporates» for pasteurization.

This, I can say on authority, was used to fuel the entire Presidency, including the Presidential Jet and other National Security operations.

Ethanol and biodiesel can both be used in bio-jet fuel, but the technologies to convert plant - derived oil to jet fuel are at an advanced stage of development, yield high energy efficiency and are ready for large - scale deployment.

Already, the first alternative fuel for jets has been certified for use worldwide by the American Society for Testing and Materials International (ASTM)-- coal turned to liquid jet fuel by South Africa's SASOL.

These alterations would make the aircraft use 37 percent less fuel than a typical passenger jet, Uranga says.

«If all of this acreage was used to produce renewable jet fuel from lipid - cane, it could replace about 65 % of national jet fuel consumption.»

If oil - intensive algae were cultivated on a broad scale — the kind of scale now used for other commercial crops — they could eventually replace the 70 percent of the U.S. oil supply used for transportation in the form of jet fuel, gasoline, and diesel, according to Weeks.

Ten years later, no one knows what was in the cloud of gases released by the combustion of all that jet fuel and building material but science has revealed what was in the dust — cement, steel, gypsum from drywall, building materials, cellulose from paper, synthetic molecules from rugs, glass fibers and human hair from the long decades of the two towers» use, among other items.

They could not freeze and had to be powerful and safe enough to run standard jet engines and use existing fuel delivery systems.

«Oil companies have processes to turn this [syngas] into gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel,» said Rich Masel, CEO of Dioxide Materials and a retired professor, pointing out how companies like BP PLC have operated synthetic fuel facilities for 20 years, albeit using natural gas instead of recycled carbon as a feedstock.

Boeing and other aircraft and jet engine manufacturers have formed an ASTM committee to decide whether the fuel from the Neste process can be used globally for making low - carbon jet fuel.

The potential feedstocks to be used by the company to make renewable jet fuel seemed unlimited.

There is not enough oil from plants such as soy and canola to supply even a fraction of the 60 million — plus gallons of jet fuel burned every day by U.S. aircraft, nearly one quarter of global use, even if all such sources were converted to fuel (which would significantly impact food supplies.)

Using these tools, Carothers expects that bacteria can renewably produce hydrocarbons already in use today, like diesel and jet fuel, creating «drop - in» replacements for fossil energy.

Longtime oil refiners UOP have a new refining process that turns plant oils into jet fuel — that has, in turn, been used to power everything from a commercial jet to an F / A -18, dubbed the «Green Hornet.»

And unlike ethanol, these fuels can be used directly in jet and diesel engines.

In this case, they used production pathways also developed at JBEI previously, and produced d - limonene, a precursor to jet fuel.

There's some in gasoline — less than there used to be — and it's in jet fuel.

Today's aircraft use roughly 80 percent less fuel per passenger - mile than the first jets of the 1950s — a testimony to the tremendous impact of aerospace engineering on flight.

«If nature figured out how to do it in mild conditions, then perhaps we can devise an inexpensive way to design catalysts to convert methane into liquid fuels like we use in our vehicles and jets.»

Isobutanol is an alcohol used in products such as lubricants, gasoline and jet fuel replacements, and plastics.

In the past year and a half, commercial airlines have flown four successful test flights using a variety of biofuel - jet fuel blends.

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.

Once the fuels are approved as jet A-1, they can immediately be used as drop - in replacements.

Ralph Lorenz at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland says we could use other water jets — those formed when spacecraft release astronaut urine and waste water from fuel cells — to learn about that.

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.

Normalized well - to - wake GHG emissions for low -, baseline - and high - emission cases for jet fuel pathways under different land use change scenarios.

If the US military increases its use of alternative jet and naval fuels that can be produced from coal or various renewable resources, including seed oils, waste oils and algae, there will be no direct benefit to the nation's armed forces, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) in partnership with the US Air Force has issued a request for information (RFI)-- DE-FOA-0000981 — on research & development aimed at greenhouse gas emissions reductions and cost competitiveness of Mil - Spec jet fuel production using coal - to - liquid (CTL) fuel technologies.

The validation flight was conducted using a 40:60 mix of Rentech's synthetic jet fuel with conventional Jet A fuel in one of two engines on an Airbus 319 aircrajet fuel with conventional Jet A fuel in one of two engines on an Airbus 319 aircraJet A fuel in one of two engines on an Airbus 319 aircraft.

United Airlines has conducted a successful engineering validation flight using Rentech's certified synthetic jet fuel (RenJet).

SEATTLE — Washington state - based Alaska Airlines today made history flying the first commercial flight using the world's first renewable, alternative jet fuel made from forest residuals, the limbs and branches that remain after the harvesting of managed forests.

RICHLAND, Wash. — Researchers at Washington State University Tri-Cities have figured out a way to successfully convert a common wood byproduct into hydrocarbon molecules that could be used as jet fuel.

Up until this final mission phase, Dawn will have used just the small thruster jets, which use a fuel called hydrazine, to control its orientation and pointing.

While it is possible to explore Ceres completely using only these jets, mission managers want to conserve precious fuel.

«Our conversion process can potentially reduce jet fuel cost to end users by using lignin waste from refineries and less expensive catalytic upgrading to jet fuel.»