Edwards Air Force Base, CA—An F-22 Raptor completed its final test flight March 18 on a 50/50 fuel blend of conventional petroleum-based JP-8 and a camelina-based jet fuel. This flight test marked the first time this type of biofuel has been used in a fifth-generation fighter like the F-22, which has been selected as the proxy for the other fighter aircraft.

Research is underway in The Netherlands to demonstrate a single palladium membrane reactor (600C) technology to reduce the energy use and cost of small-scale, fuel-cell based electrical power generation. The results generated so far were presented by Fausto Gallucci of theDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at the University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

Swati Umbrajkar, Manager of the Chemical Process Evaluation Group at Chilworth Global discusses her poster and proceeding titled: Safe Scale Up of Chemical Processes: Integration of Safety Testing in Product Life Cycle.

A computer glitch leads to a moment of groveling before an engineer.

Edward Frank, of Argonne National Laboratory discussed his group’s efforts to create the evaluation tools necessary to perform that analysis for algae derived biofuels, be they biodiesel or other refined fuels.