Visakhapatnam: The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), the largest research and scientific body in the country, is scouting for a commercial partner to run commercial and defence aircraft on biofuel, its Director-General Shekhar Mande has said.
The autonomous body which was credited with the success in powering the first flight with the indigenously produced aviation biofuel on patented technology of CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun from the capital of Uttarakhand to New Delhi in a SpiceJet aircraft last month.
“The new eco-friendly technology will be a game-changer as it is greenhouse and carbon neutral,” Mr. Shekhar Mande told The Hindu on the sideline of his maiden visit to the city to inspect the facilities of National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) on Sunday.
The CSIR, he said, was committed to fuel security which could help the country save on foreign exchange by reducing the import bill to almost zero in a few years, adding that the Union Ministry of Agriculture was collaborating for the biofuel project.
“Biofuel can be produced not only from Jatoba. The success of first biofuel-propelled flight in the country has brought laurels to the CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories. The test flight was built by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited with the NAL as the technology partner,” Mr. Shekhar Mande said.
26/11/18 Santosh Patnaik/The Hindu
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The autonomous body which was credited with the success in powering the first flight with the indigenously produced aviation biofuel on patented technology of CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun from the capital of Uttarakhand to New Delhi in a SpiceJet aircraft last month.
“The new eco-friendly technology will be a game-changer as it is greenhouse and carbon neutral,” Mr. Shekhar Mande told The Hindu on the sideline of his maiden visit to the city to inspect the facilities of National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) on Sunday.
The CSIR, he said, was committed to fuel security which could help the country save on foreign exchange by reducing the import bill to almost zero in a few years, adding that the Union Ministry of Agriculture was collaborating for the biofuel project.
“Biofuel can be produced not only from Jatoba. The success of first biofuel-propelled flight in the country has brought laurels to the CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories. The test flight was built by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited with the NAL as the technology partner,” Mr. Shekhar Mande said.
26/11/18 Santosh Patnaik/The Hindu
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