Boeing, UOP release biofuels flight data; certification as soon as 2010; UOP to license technology this summer

Biofuels Digest
June 18, 2009 Jim Lane

A CFM 56-7 jet engine, similar to the engine used in the Continental biofuels test flight
At the Paris Air Show Boeing and a series of partners involved in four biofuels-based test flights released the data from the tests, and said that with the release they are on a path towards flight certification of biofuels as soon as late 2010.

Billy Glover, managing director of Environmental Strategy for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, said that the group, which includes UOP Honeywell and the US Air Force Research Lab, is preparing a submission to ASTM that will qualify what the group is now calling Bio-SPK fuel.

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