An experimental plant-based jet fuel could increase engine performance and efficiency, while dispensing with aromatics, the pollution-causing compounds added to conventional fuels, according to new research.
According to recent research, experimental plant-based jet fuel could enhance engine performance and efficacy, while dispensing with aromatics the pollution-causing compounds seen in traditional fuels.
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Large aviation companies like Southwest Airlines are taking notice of the group s work in the DOE’s wet waste flight demonstration project to find a biorefining process to produce sustainable aviation fuels compatible with existing jet engines and capable of supporting net-zero flight. Net-zero is the point where the reduction of carbon emissions balances what s emitted by jet engines
Josh Heyne, a University of Dayton aerospace engineering researcher and national expert on sustainable aviation fuel testing, and engineering graduate student Zhibin Yang contributed to NREL s work by evaluating about a dozen fuel samples from NREL to focus compositions to meet ASTM requirements. Heyne anticipates ASTM International could qualify this sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) for commercial airline use within one year of NREL production scale-up.