On the way to obtaining a production standard for the fuel produced from the Yatropa plant in joint development with Rolls-Royce and UOP
Boeing and Air New Zealand announced a flight Experiment on Bio fuel On a Boeing 747-400 plane, which will depart on December 3rd from Oakland. Air New Zealand will be the first civil airline to use biofuel in commercial use.
One of the Rolls-Royce 747-400 engines will be powered by innovative biofuel which is extracted from the Hitropa plant. Boeing, Air New Zealand and the refining technology developer UOP from the Honeywell Corporation have long been working in cooperation with growers and the developers in the Terasol Energy project to develop biofuel produced from the plant, in the first and largest joint development project of its kind to develop jet fuel from biological sources.
Rob Fife, CEO of Air New Zealand: "The test flight is part of our efforts to become the 'greenest' airline. We have recently proven the great fuel economy and the minimization of the damage to the environment by using advanced operating processes in Boeing 777 aircraft. We are now upgrading our aircraft fleet until we receive the new 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft with the Trent-1000 engines, which will reduce fuel consumption by 20 %".
Billy Glover, director of the environmental strategy of Boeing's civil aviation division: "Based on the existing advanced technology and the impressive results we have already presented, we see that the fuel developed not only meets the three main criteria we set for ourselves, but even exceeds them: higher utilization than expected, low stagnation point Especially, and good energy density. According to these results, we are on the right track for obtaining a standard for the use of biofuel for commercial use."
The alternative fuels produced for the aviation sector must meet special requirements. The biofuel produced from the Hytropa plant meets the special needs required, such as a freezing point of 47 degrees Celsius and a flash point of 38 degrees Celsius.
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On Tuesday, 30/12/2008, the first commercial test flight in the world using Yatropa-based biofuel was successfully completed.
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Of course I meant the future.
There is currently a lot of activity aimed at such a future, but it is not clear if this is the technology that will take over in the end and it is possible that solar cells will win.
On the other hand - it may be that for airplanes, biofuel has an advantage.
Maybe in the future your words will be true, but currently biofuel is mainly produced from corn (to make methanol) so it comes from agricultural crops.
Sabdarmish Yehuda
physicist:
Your words are not accurate because the carbon dioxide emitted from biofuel is one that was absorbed from the air during its production, therefore a full transition to biofuel will not change the amount of this gas in the air while the use of fossil fuels increases the percentage of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
In relation to the use of agricultural areas - this is also not necessarily true. Biofuel may be produced from the tops of plants used for food or from plants grown in areas where edible plants cannot be grown.
All in all - the use of biofuel is a sophisticated method of using solar energy (after all, solar collectors also take up space)
The propaganda linking biofuel and "green" should have been removed a long time ago, there is simply no connection and the opposite is true, the carbon emission is the same emission, only that instead of removing the carbon from the depths, agricultural land and fresh water are wasted on the production of the fuel.
This "green" aviation will cause deforestation and growing fuel instead of food.