The federal government is contemplating issuing a directive mandating airways to make use of blended sustainable aviation gas (SAF) by 2025.
“We now have put collectively an advisory saying we are going to take a look at 1% mixing of sustainable aviation gas by 2025, 2% by 2026, and 5% by 2030,” Union civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia mentioned. Sustainable aviation gas shares some properties with conventional jet gas however reduces carbon emissions. “The expertise is right here. It’s a confirmed expertise that can be utilized by plane to fly.”
Nonetheless, the idea remains to be new for Indian airways and, to this point, blended sustainable aviation gas was used just for a couple of demonstration flights. In 2018, SpiceJet operated such a flight for the primary time, mixing 75% aviation turbine gas with 25% biojet gas produced from the jatropha plant.
In December 2021, IndiGo signed a pact with Dehradun-based Council of Scientific and Industrial Analysis-Indian Institute of Petroleum (CSIRIIP) to supply and use SAF globally. In February 2022, the airline took supply of an plane, which runs on sustainable aviation gas. Airways owned by the Tata group signed a memorandum of understanding with CSIR–IIP in September 2022 to collaborate on analysis, improvement and deployment of sustainable aviation fuels.
Full-service service Vistara operated a wide-body plane on sustainable aviation gas on a long-haul route from South Carolina to Delhi in partnership with The Boeing C. and GE Aerospace through the use of a mix of 30% SAF with 70% standard jet gas. The airline minimize virtually 150,000 kilos of carbon dioxide emissions over the gas’s life cycle.
“The issue with sustainable aviation gas worldwide is producing sufficient amount, and logistically talking ferrying SAF from the manufacturing unit to a bowser that goes into the plane. The 2 items of the puzzle needs to be resolved,” Scindia mentioned. “For five% (mixing) we require 0.7 MM of manufacturing of SAF and India has a complete manufacturing capability of 12 MM tonnes. We as an trade require hardly 5%. The entire situation is manufacturing and logistics. We’re working with the ministry of petroleum and pure gasoline. It has arrange a bio-ATF (aviation turbine gas) job drive and we’re working with them to take this alongside.”
Final September, Mint had reported that the ministries of civil aviation and petroleum are engaged on laying down a roadmap on the usage of sustainable aviation gas.
As a member of UN aviation company Worldwide Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), India is working in direction of web zero carbon emissions. The primary periodic evaluation of Carbon Offsetting and Discount Scheme for Worldwide Aviation (CORSIA) was carried out on the forty first Worldwide Civil Aviation Group Meeting in October, the place member-states pledged to try for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
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