Palm oil-based jet fuel finally makes its debut in Indonesia

A CN 235-220 plane takes off for a fuel test in Bandung, West Java, on Sept. 9. One engine of the jet was powered by BioAvtur J2.4, an aviation fuel containing a small share of palm oil-based biofuel, while the other ran on regular fuel. - Jakarta Post/ANN

JAKARTA, Sept 12 (Jakarta Post/ANN): A consortium of Indonesian companies, regulators and one university has begun a series of tests on an aviation fuel containing a small share of biofuel derived from palm oil, responding to a government mandate on the increased domestic use of the commodity through biofuel blending.

The consortium started nine days of flight tests on Thursday for an aviation turbine fuel (avtur) dubbed Bioavtur J2.4, of which 2.4 percent is biofuel made from refined palm oil.