{"id":602,"date":"2008-09-20T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=602"},"modified":"2008-09-20T15:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T15:47:00","slug":"solazyme-algae-aviation-fuel-passes-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/solazyme-algae-aviation-fuel-passes-key.html","title":{"rendered":"Solazyme Algae Aviation Fuel Passes Key ASTM Tests for Jet Fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of companies trying to produce a biofuel alternative to petroleum-based aviation fuels, and a number of airlines have made biofuel test flights using various mixtures of biofuels, but none are yet available in commercial quantities. Another milemarker has been passed on the road to greener aviation (and for the moment let\u2019s overlook the bigger question of whether aviation could ever really be green) Algae-innovator Solazyme has announced that its bio-kerosene has passed the ASTM\u2019s requirements for \u201cAviation Turbine Fuel\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Solazyme says that its microbial-derived jet fuel has passed the eleven \u201cmost challenging specifications needed to meet the ASTM D1655 standard for Aviation Turbine Fuel.\u201d Areas tested include density, thermal oxidative stability, flashpoint, freezing point, distillation and viscosity.<\/p>\n<p>More from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2008\/09\/algae-based-aviation-fuel-passes-key-astm-tests.php\">this post @ TreeHugger<\/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 everything on oil from algae with others<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: Oilgae Blog. There are a number of companies trying to produce a biofuel alternative to petroleum-based aviation fuels, and a number of airlines have made biofuel test flights using various mixtures of biofuels, but none are yet available in commercial quantities. Another milemarker has been passed on the road to greener aviation [&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-602","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\/602","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=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}