{"id":206379,"date":"2022-09-17T19:09:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T13:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=206379"},"modified":"2022-09-17T19:09:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T13:39:16","slug":"iaf-to-fly-an-32-on-blended-biodiesel-for-200-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/iaf-to-fly-an-32-on-blended-biodiesel-for-200-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF to fly AN-32 on blended biodiesel for 200 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article <\/span>\u201cIAF to fly AN-32 on blended biodiesel for 200 hours\u201d <\/b>published in <\/span>The Hindu on 17th September 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n

What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Indian Air Force(IAF) is planning to fly an AN-32 transport aircraft modified to operate on 10% blended biodiesel for 200 flight hours in the next six months.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why is AN-32 aircraft being operated on blended biodiesel?<\/b><\/h5>\n

The aviation industry both civil and military is one of the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases which cause global warming.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For instance, the annual fuel consumption of the IAF for 2021-22 was 6.2 lakh kilo litres which contributed around 15 lakh tonnes of carbon dioxide.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hence, it is important that the industry finds ways to reduce its carbon footprint for global efforts to achieve \u2018net zero emissions\u2019 to be successful.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What are the steps being taken to reduce aviation carbon emissions?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Indian Air Force: <\/b>In 2019, AN-32 aircraft, powered by a blend of biodiesel flew over the Rajpath during Republic Day.<\/span><\/p>\n

This biofuel was extracted from Jatropha plant seeds using a technology patented by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the Indian Institute of Petroleum,\u00a0 Dehradun.<\/span><\/p>\n

The plan is eventually to expand the usage of aviation turbine fuel blended with biodiesel to all fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft through evaluation and certification. <\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Such usage has the dual benefit of reducing carbon footprint as well reducing the usage of fossil fuels which will also result in savings for the IAF.<\/span><\/p>\n

Civilian Aircraft:<\/b> Airbus has plans to offer 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) compatibility on its commercial aircraft latest by 2030.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What are the challenges in this?<\/b><\/h5>\n

There are significant challenges in production and supply chain to ensure the IAF gets enough Jatropha and at reasonable rates.<\/span><\/p>\n

For instance, IAF would require over 3,000 kilo litres of biofuel annually just for operating the AN-32 fleet with a 10% biofuel mix.<\/span><\/p>\n

To overcome this challenge, India is planning to set up its first mass production bio-ATF plant at Mangalore in Karnataka.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIAF to fly AN-32 on blended biodiesel for 200 hours\u201d published in The Hindu on 17th September 2022. What is the News? Indian Air Force(IAF) is planning to fly an AN-32 transport aircraft modified to operate on 10% blended biodiesel for 200 flight hours in the next… Continue reading IAF to fly AN-32 on blended biodiesel for 200 hours<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-206379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}