{"id":39080,"date":"2018-12-18T18:08:32","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T12:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=39080"},"modified":"2018-12-18T18:08:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T12:38:32","slug":"iaf-plane-takes-to-the-air-on-blended-bio-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/iaf-plane-takes-to-the-air-on-blended-bio-fuel\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF plane takes to the air on blended bio-fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/iaf-aircraft-flies-on-blended-bio-fuel\/article25765552.ece\">IAF plane takes to the air on blended bio-fuel<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, an An-32 transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) flew with blended bio-jet fuel produced <strong>from Jatropha oil<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blended bio-jet fuel produced from Jatropha has the dual benefit of reducing the carbon footprint as well as usage of fossil fuels.<\/li>\n<li>With this discovery, India had thus joined a league of select nations to have \u201cdeveloped, tested and certified\u201d a single step Hydroprocessed Renewable Jet (HRJ) process to convert non-edible oil into biofuel for use on military aircraft.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About Biofuel Technology:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bio-jet fuel technology was developed by the Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP) under the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in 2009 and tested between 2011 and 2013.<\/li>\n<li>Bio jet fuel can be produced from <strong>animal fat, used cooking oil, waste dairy fat, sewage sludge, etc. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The oil needs to have a freezing point below -47 degrees so it doesn\u2019t freeze at altitudes at which planes fly, should not catch fire on ground when being transferred into a plane, must have the same density as aviation turbine fuel, have a certain calorific value and should not choke the filters.<\/li>\n<li>It is also 1.8% more energy dense as compared to Aviation Turbine Fuel and is, therefore, more efficient.<\/li>\n<li>A lower Sulphur content causes less wear and tear.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Challenges:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Availability and supply chain <\/strong>&#8211; IAF would require over 3,000 Kilo Liters of bio-fuel annually just for operating the AN-32 fleet with a 10% mix.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lack of Policy<\/strong> &#8211; Policy intervention to incentive the entire supply chain, from production of the crops to its distribution is absent<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jatropha Production<\/strong> &#8211; Inedible oil seeds like jatropha have low per acre productivity and there is a need to use biotechnology to enhance yields<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IAF plane takes to the air on blended bio-fuel News: For the first time, an An-32 transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) flew with blended bio-jet fuel produced from Jatropha oil Facts: Blended bio-jet fuel produced from Jatropha has the dual benefit of reducing the carbon footprint as well as usage of fossil&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/iaf-plane-takes-to-the-air-on-blended-bio-fuel\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IAF plane takes to the air on blended bio-fuel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704762819},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39080","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}