Aerospace Diary

Neelam Mathews http://asianaviation.realviewtechnologies.com/#folio=36

India’s carriers are becoming increasingly interested in green technology Asian Airlines & Airports Neelam Mathews April 3, 2011 Time filed- 8.05PM IST I mpending regulations on envi­ronment in the offing such as Eu­ropean Union Emissions Trading Scheme are prompting Indian car­riers to start looking at green tech­nologies.  Budget carrier IndiGo and King­fisher Airlines are looking at doing pilot flights with green fuel once the government certification is granted.  “We have support from Airbus and Pratt & Whitney and once the aviation authority (in India) gives us a green signal, they could fly within months,” says James E. Rekoske, Vice President, Renewable Energy and Chemicals, UOP, Honeywell Special­ity Materials to AAA. UOP was awarded a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop economically vi­able technology to stabilize pyrolysis oil from second generation biomass feedstocks for use as a renewable fuel source. Biomass pyrolysis ...