The five leading alternative jet fuel companies identified by Carbon War Room are Lanzatech, SG biofuels, AltAir, Solazyme and Sapphire.
Finally, our results support the use of the GtL fuel as an alternative jet fuel.
Alternative jet fuel can be qualified for certifying drop-in jet fuel and accordingly confirm with identical safe service life in engine and aircraft by analogizing the boundaries of critical key parameters with petroleum-based jet fuel.
Biofuels are also more expensive: for example, according to our main Watchdog GAO, the U.S. Department of Defense under President Obama dumbfoundedly shelled out $150 per gallon for alternative jet fuel made from algae," around 65 times more than the market price for standard oil-based fuels at the time!
Bill Glover, managing director of environmental strategy for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, which is leading an effort to develop, test and certify alternative jet fuels, said the technology is ready.
"Near-Term Feasibility of Alternative Jet Fuels," J. I. Hileman, D. S. Ortiz, J. T. Bartis, H.M. Wong, P. E. Donohoo, M. A. Weiss, and I. A. Waitz, jointly published by the RAND Corporation (TR544) and the Partnership for AiR Transportation Noise and Emissions Reduction, www.partner.aero, October 2009.
A wide range of alternative jet fuels is studied in this work for use in a small two-spool turbofan engine.
Under similar compressed conditions, the camelina hydroprocessed renewable jet fuel ignition properties are distinct from JP-8, which provides motivation for pursuing new test strategies to elicit the autoignition chemistry of alternative jet fuels and other non-volatile fuels.
The autoignition characteristics of the conventional jet fuel, JP-8, and the alternative jet fuels, camelina and tallow hydrotreated renewable jet (HRJ) fuels, are investigated using a rapid compression machine and the direct test chamber charge preparation approach.
A variety of new, alternative jet fuels are being considered as replacements for conventional petroleum-derived jet fuels, and the autoignition chemistry of these fuels are of prime interest.
Conventional and alternative jet fuels, such as petroleum-derived Jet-A, coal-derived IPK, and natural-gas-derived S-8, display significant chemical and physical fuel property differences that influence their ignition characteristics.
