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Inexpensive Jet Fuel from Microalgal Lipids

A pressing energy need is to develop domestic, renewable substitutes for transportation fuel. Neither ethanol nor biodiesel can help supply jet fuel, for which energy density and low-temperature fuel properties are critical. Ethanol is not dense enough having only about half the energy per volume of jet fuel. Biodiesel has about 80% the energy density of kerosene, but can solidify at the low temperatures of high altitude flight. The solution could come from a combination of hydroprocessing — a technology already used by petroleum refineries — and microscopic algae. With hydroprocessing technologies used by refineries to catalytically remove impurities or reduce molecular weight, the algal oils could be made into a kerosene-like fuel very similar to current military jet fuels, says this press release from Earthtoys .

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