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Qatar Airways are trying to develop a biofuel that will enable them to keep on flying and become carbon neutral.
The project will be a joint affair between Qatar Airways, Qatar Science & Technology Park, and Qatar Petroleum. The trio has established the Qatar Advanced Biofuel Platform which will focus on devoloping [...]

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Honeywell says it has completed initial testing of renewable jet fuel on its TPE331 turboprop engine, its TFE731 engine and a commercial Auxiliary Power Unit, with performance and fuel economy results comparable to typical aviation fuels.
For the past several months, Honeywell has been testing a biofuel blend developed by UOP LLC, [...]

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Here is the link to an interesting pdf on ”Evaluation of Bio-Derived SyntheticParaffinic Kerosene (Bio-SPK)“. It gives extensive data on composition and performance of Bio-SPK derived from jatropha, camelina and algae.
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Premier Mike Rann met for an hour yesterday with Neal Blue, the chief executive officer of General Atomics, which owns the Beverley uranium deposits in SA’s Far North. Mr Rann said SA was now poised to become a national leader in refining biosynthetic fuels, with the potential to create thousands of [...]

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The Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) at the University of North Dakota has been awarded a subcontract by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) to help produce jet fuel from algae. The effort is being funded by the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and is [...]

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A team of chemists at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., is testing alternative fuel formulas using items such as algae, weeds, animal fats and liquefied coal.
Their goal is to create an alternative version of today’s jet fuel, known as JP-5, which could be easily transported and burned by today’s fleet.
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Scientists have turned their attention to the use of yeast in biofuels and, while their investigations are still in their infancy, there is hope they will provide a viable alternative in the long-term.
Mr Remy said algae still remained the holy grail for biofuel researchers because potential yields were outstanding, relative to [...]

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Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP) has launched a small project to examine the feasibility of producing aviation fuel from algae.
Executive chairman Dr Tidu Maini said- “We are blessed in Qatar with seawater, carbon dioxide and heat – which algae need to grow.”
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The Boeing Co. has spent more than three years working with other groups to study making jet fuel from algae and other plants. Boeing’s new exhibit at the Future of Flight Museum at Paine Field demonstrates how quickly algae can grow and become a source of fuel.
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NASA scientists have proposed an ingenious and remarkably resourceful process to produce “clean energy” biofuels, while it cleans waste water, removes carbon dioxide from the air, retains important nutrients, and does not compete with agriculture for land or freshwater. This is an excellent approach wherein clean energy is produced in addition [...]