{"id":1250,"date":"2009-10-21T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T11:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2009-10-21T11:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T11:31:00","slug":"honeywell-tests-algae-jet-fuel-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/honeywell-tests-algae-jet-fuel-on.html","title":{"rendered":"Honeywell Tests Algae Jet Fuel on TPE331 Engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>For the past several months, Honeywell has been testing a biofuel blend developed by UOP LLC, a Honeywell subsidiary based in Des Plaines, Ill., which is 50 percent jatropha and algae-based biofuel, and 50 percent petroleum-based fuel.<\/p>\n<p>The engine tests included evaluation of combustion characteristics and a full-engine test for the TPE331 turboprop engine.&#8221;Test results indicate biofuel blends can be used safely for aviation, including business aircraft powered by Honeywell engines and APUs, with no effect on engine performance or operation,&#8221; added Rich.<\/p>\n<p>In this process, hydrogen is added to remove oxygen from the biological feedstock resulting in a high quality, bio-derived fuel that blends seamlessly with petroleum-based fuel and acts as a drop-in replacement. The fuel meets all the critical specifications for flight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenceweb.co.za\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=4719&amp;Itemid=350\">See more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the way, have you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/feed\/rss.xml\">subscribed to the Oilgae Blog?<\/a>; How about <a href=\"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/mlist\/user\/subscribe.php\">joining the Oilgae mailing list?<\/a>; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/forum\">our forum to discuss on with others<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: Oilgae Blog. 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-aviation-fuel","category-algae-energy-companies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}