{"id":12211,"date":"2019-03-10T17:20:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T17:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=12211"},"modified":"2019-03-10T17:26:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T17:26:52","slug":"epic-to-distribute-sustainable-fuels-to-boeing-as-part-of-new-option-to-deliver-commercial-aircraft-powered-by-biofuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/texas\/epic-to-distribute-sustainable-fuels-to-boeing-as-part-of-new-option-to-deliver-commercial-aircraft-powered-by-biofuels\/%20","title":{"rendered":"EPIC to Distribute Sustainable Fuels to Boeing as Part of New Option to Deliver Commercial Aircraft Powered by Biofuels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"89\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Epic-Fuels-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12212\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">EPIC Fuels has been selected by Boeing to provide\ntechnical and logistical support in transporting sustainable aviation fuel for\na new aircraft delivery program. As part of Boeing\u2019s ongoing commitment to protect\nthe environment, it has begun offering customers the option of powering their\ncommercial airplane delivery flights with sustainable aviation fuel for\naircraft delivered from Boeing facilities in Washington State\u2019s Puget Sound\nregion, with work underway to provide sustainable aviation fuel for Boeing\u2019s\nSouth Carolina customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alaska Airlines, an early pioneer in embracing\nsustainable fuels, is the first participant in the Boeing initiative. Later\nthis year Alaska will take possession of three 737 MAX airplanes and for the\ndelivery flights, they will be powered by a blend of biofuel and traditional\njet fuel transported by EPIC Fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;As a world-class fuel provider, EPIC Fuels\nrecognizes the need to find viable, sustainable and safe alternatives to petroleum-only\nbased aviation fuel,&#8221; said Kai Sorenson, Director of Commercial Sales for\nEPIC Fuels. &#8220;We&#8217;ve gained tremendous working knowledge on the transport,\nsafe handling and blending of biofuel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPrograms such as Boeing\u2019s option to provide biofuel are\nmade possible not only by their tireless commitment to protect the environment,\nbut also because of the many demonstration flights in previous years that have\nhelped to identify and fast track technologies that can improve the\nenvironmental performance of alternative aviation fuels\u201d, Sorenson added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EPIC has provided both technical and logistic expertise\nin a multitude of sustainable\/alternative fuel programs over the past decade.\nRecent examples include flights flown by Alaska Airlines in 2016 using a blend\nof biofuel produced from non-edible, sustainable corn and renewable biofuel\nmade from residual wood; Singapore Airlines\u2019 first-ever flight powered by a\nblend of sustainable biofuel made from used cooking oil and conventional jet\nfuel. In addition, EPIC has provided support for multiple flights on Boeing\u2019s\necoDemonstrator program, which accelerates the development of promising\ntechnologies. This includes a flight with U.S.-made &#8220;green diesel&#8221;\nbiofuel in June 2015 and Boeing&#8217;s first-ever flights using a green diesel blend\nduring the ecoDemonstrator 787 flight test program in December 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EPIC Fuels has been selected by Boeing to provide technical and logistical support in transporting sustainable aviation fuel for a new aircraft delivery program. As part of Boeing\u2019s ongoing commitment to protect the environment, it has begun offering customers the option of powering their commercial airplane delivery flights with sustainable aviation fuel for aircraft delivered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-texas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12213,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12211\/revisions\/12213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}