TY - CHAP

T1 - Biofuels, aviation and sustainability

T2 - Prospects and limits

AU - Upham, Paul

AU - Tomei, Julia

AU - Boucher, Philip

PY - 2009/2/25

Y1 - 2009/2/25

N2 - Use of biofuel as a substitute or extender for mineral jet fuel (Jet A1 kerosene) has rapidly moved from a relatively niche research topic to mainstream attention, with Virgin Atlantic in 2007 announcing plans for biofuel tests with one of its 747s and then making a test flight with a 747 in February 2008, using fuel derived from a mixture of Brazilian babassu palm oil and coconut oil, with one of the four engines connected to an independent biofuel tank that could provide 20 per cent of the engine’s power (BBC, 2008).

AB - Use of biofuel as a substitute or extender for mineral jet fuel (Jet A1 kerosene) has rapidly moved from a relatively niche research topic to mainstream attention, with Virgin Atlantic in 2007 announcing plans for biofuel tests with one of its 747s and then making a test flight with a 747 in February 2008, using fuel derived from a mixture of Brazilian babassu palm oil and coconut oil, with one of the four engines connected to an independent biofuel tank that could provide 20 per cent of the engine’s power (BBC, 2008).

KW - Sustainability sciences, Communication

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84925788128&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.4324/9781849770774

DO - 10.4324/9781849770774

M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

AN - SCOPUS:84925788128

SN - 9781844076208

SP - 309

EP - 328

BT - Climate Change and Aviation

A2 - Gossling, Stefan

A2 - Upham, Paul

PB - Routledge Taylor & Francis Group

ER -