A photo from open sources In the People’s Republic of China an event if not revolutionary, then at least revealing before man new horizons in terms of the use of biological types of fuel.
The liner of the famous aviation company “Hainan Airlines” made first of its kind commercial flight. From Shanghai to Chinese one hundred fifty six passengers and eight shuttles departed for the capital crew. The flight became unique in that jet fuel on fifty percent consisted of waste vegetable oil, on which not so long ago fried potatoes, hamburgers and other fast food. The other half of the fuel mixture was ordinary kerosene.
Airline vice president Pu Min told reporters that Hainan Airlines Demonstrates Deep Commitment to Security the environment. According to the businessman, thousands of planes daily furrow the airspace of the planet, and if you start gradually you can refuel airliners with biological fuel, you can not only save, but also prevent air pollution.
Using biofuels made by Chinese companies Sinopec and National Aviation Fuel, narrow-body passenger the Boeing 737 covered the distance without any problems between Shanghai and Beijing, demonstrating that vegetable oil is great for refueling liners.
It is worth noting that the used cooking oil today on every Chinese has a rumor, but this is not connected with airplanes. Whole criminal gangs of merchants extract him from sewers and, carrying out primitive cleaning, they sell under the guise of a new one. Authorities China plans to monopolize the use of waste oil, in order to make fuel of it.
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