Second generation flight date set
Boeing and Air New Zealand have announced that they will conduct the first flight test of second generation sustainable biofuel in an airliner on 3 December.
The planned test will be carried out using an Air New Zealand Boeing 747 flying from Auckland, New Zealand. During the flight, one of the jumbo jet's four Rolls-Royce engines will run partly on jatropha-based biofuel.
Successful biofuelled airliner tests have already been made using first generation fuels made from plants grown on existing cropland.
Process technology from UOP, a Honeywell company, was used to convert second-generation, renewable feedstocks to green jet fuel for the flight.
UOP collaborated with Air New Zealand, Boeing and Rolls-Royce to produce and test renewable jet fuel made from the oil of jatropha plants.
The green jet fuel will be mixed 50/50 with Jet A1 and will power one of the Air New Zealand Boeing 747-400's Rolls-Royce engines RB211 engines.
Jatropha, an inedible plant can grow in conditions where other food crops cannot, is considered a sustainable, second-generation resource because its cultivation and harvesting do not tax valuable food, land or water resources, and can provide socioeconomic benefit to the regions where it is grown.
The planned test will be carried out using an Air New Zealand Boeing 747 flying from Auckland, New Zealand. During the flight, one of the jumbo jet's four Rolls-Royce engines will run partly on jatropha-based biofuel.
Successful biofuelled airliner tests have already been made using first generation fuels made from plants grown on existing cropland.
Process technology from UOP, a Honeywell company, was used to convert second-generation, renewable feedstocks to green jet fuel for the flight.
UOP collaborated with Air New Zealand, Boeing and Rolls-Royce to produce and test renewable jet fuel made from the oil of jatropha plants.
The green jet fuel will be mixed 50/50 with Jet A1 and will power one of the Air New Zealand Boeing 747-400's Rolls-Royce engines RB211 engines.
Jatropha, an inedible plant can grow in conditions where other food crops cannot, is considered a sustainable, second-generation resource because its cultivation and harvesting do not tax valuable food, land or water resources, and can provide socioeconomic benefit to the regions where it is grown.
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