{"id":821,"date":"2009-01-03T03:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T03:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=821"},"modified":"2009-01-03T03:47:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-03T03:47:00","slug":"japan-airlines-uses-camelina-jatropha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/japan-airlines-uses-camelina-jatropha.html","title":{"rendered":"Japan Airlines uses camelina, jatropha and algae derived jet fuel blend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_f3fVpc7kXsM\/SGCqAN9fQLI\/AAAAAAAAARY\/du8SE5UXGDM\/s400\/Japan-Airlines.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 255px; height: 151px;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_f3fVpc7kXsM\/SGCqAN9fQLI\/AAAAAAAAARY\/du8SE5UXGDM\/s400\/Japan-Airlines.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"normalcopy\"><strong style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Japan Airlines<\/strong> says it will be the first Asian carrier to fly using a sustainable biofuel refined from the energy crop camelina. This month it will use a blend of 50 percent biofuel and 50 percent traditional Jet-A jet fuel on a B747-300 aircraft. The biofuel component will be a mixture of three second-generation biofuel feedstocks: camelina, jatropha and algae. <\/span><br \/><span class=\"normalcopy\"><\/span><br \/><span class=\"normalcopy\">Camelina, also known as gold-of-pleasure or false flax, is an energy crop, given its high oil content and ability to grow in rotation with wheat and other cereal crops. &#8220;Our feedstock selection was based on firm sustainability criteria designed to avoid the mistakes of preceding biofuel generations,&#8221; said Boeing Biofuels Program Manager Tim Rahmes. &#8220;Working together with Japan Airlines and our other industry partners we&#8217;ve successfully partnered to create a next-generation, plant-derived jet fuel blend that has replacement fuel qualities that meet or exceed all of the current jet fuel specification properties.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aircargoworld.com\/regions\/americas_0109.htm\">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. Japan Airlines says it will be the first Asian carrier to fly using a sustainable biofuel refined from the energy crop camelina. This month it will use a blend of 50 percent biofuel and 50 percent traditional Jet-A jet fuel on a B747-300 aircraft. The biofuel component will be a [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-aviation-fuel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","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=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}