Archive for December, 2009
British Airways Will Make Fuel from Food Waste
British Airways (BA) has announced their plans to build biomass plant in the UK which will use biomass, including food waste to eventually produce million tons of green jet fuel a year.
British Airways said the processing facility will convert biomass to 500 000 tons of waste per year to 16 million gallons of low-carbon fuels for use in the fleet. However, the fuel will be produced starting in 2014. IBHS require several years to reach full capacity.
The factory will be built by a U.S. company, Solena Group, in London (location not yet confirmed). British Airways said it had signed a letter of intent to purchase all the fuel produced.
The new fuel will come from biomass waste and produced in countries that have a facility that can convert various waste materials at the Landfill to be fuel for aircraft.
But the company has confirmed that green fuels are produced in a place that has not been given approval by British authorities. But American officials have given the green light to a 50 percent mix of bio-fuel. BA said the approval was only required from one of the mixture and the mixture was convinced that permission for 100 percent of waste will be provided in the future.