Airline fuels flight with recycled cooking oil

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Airline fuels flight with recycled cooking oil | Manila Standard Today


AN AUSTRALIAN airline said Friday it had found a sustainable alternative to aviation fuel that was more economical and efficient and cut an aircraft’s carbon emissions: recycled cooking oil.
Officials of Qantas airline said an Airbus A330 left Sydney for Adelaide on Friday using a 50-50 mixture of recycled cooking oil and regular jet fuel in what could have been the first biofuel commercial flight, according to reports culled from various wire agencies including the Australian Associated Press.

Flight captain Phil Davenport told reporters on arrival at Adelaide that the aircraft handled the same as any other.
“There was no real difference on the way over, apart from a a very slight reduction in the fuel flows on the engine that was using it, which basically means it was more economical and more efficient than the normal fuel,” Davenport said.
Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce said the Federal government had given the airline $500,000 to finance a study into the feasibility of alternative aviation biofuels, which the airline industry needed to face the immediate challenges ahead


We need to get ready for a future that is not based on traditional jet fuel, or frankly we don’t have a future,” Joyce said.
He said the use of biofuel was an important step in confronting the major challenge of high fuel prices and the aviation industry’s goal of being carbon-neutral by 2020.
“And it’s not just the price of oil that’s the issue. It’s also the price of carbon,” Joyce said.
“From July, Qantas will be the only airline in the world to face liabilities in three jurisdictions, so our sense of urgency is justified.”
Europe has started imposing a controversial carbon tax on airlines, while New Zealand has a carbon tax that applies to flights within the country by Qantas budget carrier Jetstar. Australia’s tax on carbon emissions comes into force on July 1.


Biofuels have been criticized for cutting into potential food supplies, but Qantas said it used a product that was not a food crop.
The oil was produced and refined in Houston, Texas, and shipped to Australia, but passengers were not made to pay surcharge, John Velastro of Qantas was quoted by the Australian Associated Press.
Qantas had also been working with other firms on alternative sources of aviation jet fuel made from algae or household waste, officials said.


nice one from Qantas scientists, finding alternative ways to minimize oil consumption for their airline and in the process ,making it profitable . i hope this will be the beginning of a mad scramble to find ways to minimize the dependence of oil
for airliners.

[vahnhelsing]

nice way of recycling used oil.. ang nakaapan lang niya ani manimahao chicken joy ang kawanangan....

[eongab]

naay daghan sa jollibee and mc do. paliton na sa qantas airline bah. lol

[chris_bern]

di ba kaha ni dapat sa SCIENCE section?

anyways, that's a good news.. I hope PAL will consider this idea also..

[rodsky]

This may be good for now, but in the long run, big headache for the engine maintenance crews. Ask any housewife--ang grease/sebo is very tough to remove.

-RODION

[eongab]

This may be good for now, but in the long run, big headache for the engine maintenance crews. Ask any housewife--ang grease/sebo is very tough to remove.

-RODION

sakto ka sir. basin JOY maoy gamiton nila limpyo sir.

[street_of_no_return]

ang maproblema ani ang companya kai gasto na sad ing.palimpyo or pa overhaul ani sa makina.

[labyrinthbw]

This may be good for now, but in the long run, big headache for the engine maintenance crews. Ask any housewife--ang grease/sebo is very tough to remove.

-RODION

like they literally use recycled cooking oil directly to fuel their engines? or does this cooking oil goes through a process first before it goes to the plane?

yeah, basin JOY ang ila gamiton ani..or Mr. Muscle Declogger

[frozentime]

delikado kau ug mo hagsa ky gi anoos na ang makina sa eroplano. laylo lang sa ko sakay erplen oi.

[balipseyev]

Mao diay cgeg ka abirya ug cgeg ka problema ang mga flights sa Qantas Airline kay cooking oil man gamit...