Airline Qantas announced that the company-owned aircraft made an Intercontinental flight from the USA to Australia with fuel partially composed of mustard. For flight used mixed fuel, for 90 percent consisting of conventional aviation kerosene and the remaining ten percent made up of ordinary mustard oil made from the seeds sareptana mustard and is used in the manufacture of canned food and confectionery.
Representatives of the airline Quantas is reported that in the future I plan to increase the share of mustard oil in kerosene, and by 2020, will launch the first fully commercial flight on biofuel.
“Ha seeds can produce two tons of oil of which in turn, can produce 400 liters of biofuel, 1400 liters of renewable biofuels, and about one hundred liters side renewable products”, — reports a press-service of Quantas.
According to the estimates of the airline, the widespread use of mixed fuel will help one-third reduction in CO2 emissions into the atmosphere, so the Australian carrier will begin to work closely with Australian farmers to promote their ideas.
The Guardian reports that the Intercontinental flight of the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner took fifteen hours.
The plane made an Intercontinental flight on kerosene with mustard
Vyacheslav Larionov