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Flag service Garuda Indonesia checks palm oil-blended jet gas.
Flag service Garuda Indonesia (GIAA.JK) stated it’s testing jet gas blended with palm oil within the engines of one in every of its Boeing plane, amid efforts to chop emissions within the aviation sector.
Indonesia, the world’ largest producer of palm oil, is eager to broaden use of the vegetable oil in fuels to slash imports of pricey fossil fuels. This yr, it rolled out using biodiesel containing 35% palm oil, the very best obligatory combine on the planet, up from 30% final yr.
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Garuda stated in a press release the jet gas, which incorporates 2.4% palm oil, is being examined on CFM56-7B engines of a B737-800 NG plane. It added the take a look at was launched final week.
Irfan Setiaputra, Garuda chief government stated within the assertion, stated:
This initiation is our first step to assist a inexperienced and sustainable economic system, and make us a pioneer as the primary business airline in Indonesia to hold out trials of renewable power.
The engine take a look at will likely be adopted by floor and flight checks later in August, the power ministry stated.
The nation in 2021 ran a flight take a look at with the identical gas on an plane made by state-owned Dirgantara Indonesia, which flew from town Bandung in West Java to the capital Jakarta.
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Flag service Garuda Indonesia checks palm oil-blended jet gas, July 31, 2023