India to soon produce low carbon aviation fuel

12 Oct 2011

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New Delhi: Virgin Atlantic announced Tuesday that India could soon be producing a world-first low carbon aviation fuel with just half the carbon footprint of the standard fossil fuel alternative. It said it had achieved a breakthrough in aviation fuel technology in partnership with LanzaTech.

The new process will see waste gases from industrial steel production being captured, fermented and chemically converted using Swedish Biofuels technology to be used as a jet fuel. The revolutionary fuel production process recycles waste gases that would otherwise be burnt into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.

India, which is amongst the world's largest steel producers, will be one of the first countries where the fuel will be produced as LanzaTech and its partners develop facilities in the country.

Within three years, Virgin Atlantic routes from Delhi to London Heathrow could see flights running on the new fuel.

A demonstration plant will be commissioned in China this year and the first commercial operation will be in place by 2014. A facility in India should follow around six months later.

The technology is currently being piloted in New Zealand. After successful implementation, a wider roll-out could include operations in the UK and the rest of the world, Virgin Atlantic said in a statement.

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