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Indonesian manufacturer conducts successful flight test using biofuel
CN-235
Adrian Pingstone, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Gabriela Ramos
10/13/2021
Last Wednesday, October 6, Indonesia's state-owned aircraft manufacturer IPTN completed a successful flight test of a CN-235 aircraft using biofuel to power the two engines.
The aircraft departed from Husein Sastranegara Airport in Bandung, West Java and flew 120 km west to the designated test area above Pelabuhan Ratu. It then flew to the North, bound for Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, in Tangerang, in the province of Banten, totaling 1 hour and 20 minutes of flight and a distance of about 250 km.
The biofuel, nicknamed “Bioavtur” in Indonesia, was developed in conjunction with Pertamina, an Indonesian state-owned oil and natural gas company, and with the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), from a kerosene blend, RBDPKO ( refined, bleached and deodorized palm kernel oil) and the catalyst “Merah Putih” (red and white), developed by ITB. The specific fuel used in the test is called J2.4, which contains 2.4% of the substances based on palm oil.
The test is part of the Indonesian government's goals to reach 23% renewable energy content by 2035. Palm oil-based Bioavtur is expected to match 100% of Indonesia's aviation biofuel in the near future and beyond go through a development process, it will be called J100.
CN-235
MilborneOne, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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