Research Collaboration for Development of Jet Fuel from Camelina Inked
October 17, 2008http://www.biofuels-news.com/news/camelina_jets.html
http://www.camelinacompany.com/Marketing/20081002PressRelease.aspx
http://www.undeerc.org/news/newsitem.aspx?id=327
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An American renewable energy company (Great Plains-the Camelina Company) has entered into a research agreement with the University of North Dakota’s Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) to produce advanced biofuels from Camelina (a non-food oilseed-producing feedstock, see related information below). The company has a ten year experience in the science and agronomy of Camelina. Although the company has been producing biodiesel from Camelina, it is interested in the proprietary “feedstock flexible” conversion technology of the EERC to realize the potential of Camelina as an advance biofuel (for example, jet fuel). “The EERC and Great Plains will utilize camelina oil for upcoming testing and are planning to develop an initial full-scale refinery focused on renewable jet fuel production”.
Related information on Camelina (agronomy and biofuel potential) :
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1993/v2-314.html
http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=CAMEL
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