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and other cereal crops. Each of the flights
used a 50/50 blend of biofuel and petro-
leum-based fuel in one engine. In each flight
the engine using biofuel performed as well
as the engine with only petroleum-based fuel.
There is work needed to achieve commercial
production and use. Data from each of the
flights will be compiled and made available for
use by the American Society for Testing and
Materials (ASTM) International committee
for approval and certification. Additionally,
further development is needed to harvest
and process sustainable feedstocks, such
as jatropha, algae and camelina, in commer-
cial-scale quantities. UOP will need to license
its technology and support the design of a
produces on-spec green jet fuel from sustainable production facility. UOP believes that biofuels
feedstocks and that commercial-scale production could begin making an impact on the aviation
and usage of these biofuels in the aviation industry jet fuel supply in three to five years.
could be a reality in a matter of just a few years.”
The Norwegian government has already
Growing Ecosystem set a goal that 30 per cent of all jet fuel
OP collaborated with Boeing, the airlines and engine used in Norway by 2030 will be sustainably
manufacturers for each of the three flights to produce produced biofuels. To help jump start this
and test renewable jet fuel made from sustainable transition, the government announced in
Unatural oils. The Air New Zealand flight used oil from October that airlines operating in Norwegian
jatropha, an inedible plant that can grow in conditions where airspace will have to use 0.5 per cent biofu-
other food crops cannot, as the source for the biofuel. The els in their jet fuel by 2020. Airports in Oslo
Continental flight used oil from both jatropha and algae, and the and Bergen, Norway, have biofuel delivery
JAL flight used oil from jatropha, algae and camelina, an energy systems alongside their traditional jet kero-
crop with high oil content that can grow in rotation with wheat sene infrastructure. In the U.S., it is airlines,

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