Greening Flight: Japan Air Lines, Continental Latest to Test Bio Jet
Fuels

Already financially challenged on a number of fronts, airlines have been
in the crosshairs of government efforts to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions, particularly in the past year. That combined with recent
years' sharp spike in fuel prices has led to a flurry of activity on the
part of airlines to develop and test cleaner alternative fuels.

Japan Air Lines on January 30 became the first to test fly an airliner
<http://www.susoils.com/dynamic-content/csArticles/articles/000000/00003
5.htm>  on a combination of second generation biofuels derived from
three feedstocks, 84% of which was derived from camelina
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelina_sativa> , an oilseed crop and
relative of mustard, cabbage and broccoli that's traditionally been used
to produce vegetable oil and animal feed. 

Montana's Sustainable Oils <http://www.susoils.com>  supplied the
camelina biofuel for JAL's test flight. The other biofuels were refined
from jatropha <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jatropha>  (<16%) and algae
(<1%).

Full blog post here:
http://www.triplepundit.com/pages/greening-flight-japan-air-lines-biodie
se.php.

 

 

Dedee DeLongpre-Johnston, MBA

Director, Office of Sustainability

University of Florida

(352) 392-7578

www.sustainable.ufl.edu <http://www.sustainable.ufl.edu/>