Finally the airlines have got the approval to use the biofulels for all the commercial flights.The US based group members to power the planes with the traditional kerosene and biofuels derived from inedible plants and organic waste.
The airlines to fly passenger jets using derivatives of up to 50 percent biofuel made from feedstocks such as algae and woodchips. It will help carriers that account for 2 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions decrease pollution blamed for damaging the Earth’s atmosphere.
Airlines already have tested flights using the fuel. Air France-KLM Group on June 29 operated the world’s first commercial flight using a blend including cooking oil. It’s planning 200 similar test flights from Amsterdam to Paris starting September. Boeing did a trans-Atlantic flight with fuel from the camelina plant.
Companies that may benefit from opening the $139 billion-a- year aviation fuel market include Neste Oil Oyj of Finland, US-based Solazyme Inc. and Honeywell International Inc.’s UOP unit, which is developing a fuel-making technology.
This is an important milestone for the aviation industry and for biofuel producers that bet on drop-in fuels,” said Roberto Rodriguez Labastida, an analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
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