Refuelling the future: Progress towards testing drop-in biofuels in replacing conventional fuel for commercial flights

摘要

Due to different motivations,including the interest in reducing the dependency on fossil fuel and environmental implications,drop-in biofuels are a reality in today’s commercial aviation.This paper summarizes the state-of-the-art of biomass-origin kerosene certification and provides references to the commercial flights performed so far by all airlines around the world.Results prove that the normal operation of the flights using the drop-in biofuel do not experience any repercussion in the performance in both engine and maintenance.