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US Navy to fly on biofuels


Biofuels Digest
 
US Navy Secretary Ray Mabus and US Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack have announced that the Defence Logistics Agency (DLA) signed a contract to purchase 450,000 gallons (1.7m litres) of advanced drop-in biofuel, the single largest purchase of biofuel in government history.
 
The Defence Department will purchase biofuel made from a blend of non-food waste (used cooking oil) from the Louisiana-based Dynamic Fuels, LLC, a joint-venture of Tyson Foods and Syntroleum Corporation, and algae, produced by Solazyme. (Solazyme is one of Qantas’ selected partners for aviation biofuel research – read article here.)
 
The contract involves supplying the Navy with 100,000 gallons (378,000 l) of jet fuel (Hydro-treated Renewable JP- 5 or HRJ-5) and 350,000 (1.325m litres) gallons of marine distillate fuel (Hydro-Treated Renewable F-76 or HRD-76). The fuel will be used as part of the Navy’s efforts to develop a ‘Green Strike Group’ composed of vessels and ships powered by biofuel.
 
As part of his energy security goals, outlined in March 2011 in the “Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future,” President Obama directed the Departments of Agriculture, Energy and Navy to work together to advance a domestic industry capable of producing ‘drop-in’ biofuel substitutes for diesel and jet fuel.
 
Responding to that challenge, in August 2011, the Secretaries of Agriculture, Energy and Navy announced an intention to invest up to USD 510 million during the next three years in partnership with the private sector to produce advanced drop-in biofuel to power military and commercial transportation.
 
The fuel will be used in the US Navy’s demonstration of the Green Strike Group in the summer of 2012 during the Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC), the world’s largest international maritime exercise.
 
In preparation for this demonstration, the Navy recently completed testing of all aircraft, including F/A-18 and all six blue Angels and the V-22 Osprey, and has successfully tested the RCB-X (Riverine Command Boat), training patrol craft, Self Defence Test Ship, and conducted full-scale gas turbine engine testing.
 
US Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said: “We are doing this for one reason. It makes us better war fighters. Our use of fossil fuels is a very real threat to US Navy’s ability to protect America and project our power overseas. This biofuel purchase is significant because it accelerates the development and demonstration of a home-grown fuel source that can reduce America’s, and our military’s, dependence on foreign oil.
 
“Just as the Navy went from sail to coal, coal to oil and pioneered nuclear in the 1950s, we are going to lead again by helping to establish a market for biofuels. The purchase is going to be used toward our plan for a Great Green Fleet – which is a historic reference to the Great White Fleet established by President Theodore Roosevelt to demonstrate the advanced readiness and capability of the US Navy a century ago.”

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