The IAF will now run its AN-32 transport aircraft on a blended bio-fuel partly derived from trees. It plans to widen the experiment over the next two years.
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Antonov AN-32, is a Soviet built workhorse for Indian Airforce. Those who are in the Military service would have had the pleasure of traveling in this crude, compared to the civil jetliner, transport aircraft. While working at the DRDO lab Centre for Military Airworthinesd and Certification (CEMILAC), I had several occasions to travel in AN-32 as well Ilyushin IL-76, Avro HS-748 and Dornier. Those were the days when I was not eligible to travel by civil Air due to my lower basic pay. I used to hitch-hike and hopon-hopoff military aircraft for my official trips to AF stations. These rugged aircraft are the lifelines of our soldiers on the mountains, deserts and glaciers
Speaking about CEMILAC, it has a unit specially for certifying Fuels, Oils and Lubricants at Bengaluru in addition to several other units spread across India to certify aircraft, engine, missile and armaments. I had an occasion to work on certifying an indigenous lubricant developed at Mysuru for engines
Now it is heartening to note that my erstwhile DRDO colleagues have certified green fuel for AN-32, which also meet certain societal obligations. It is a long uncherished dream yet unfulfilled for India to have own transport aircraft to replace ageing AN-32s and IL-76s.
When did just 10% blend attain the status of “Green fuel”? Also carbon footprint is determined based on the CO2 released. It doesn’t matter if you burn ATF or biofuel. Many studies in the west have shown that blending biofuels with petrol tends to harm old internal combustion engines. So without proper equipment, it is doing more harm than good. Also the calorific value of biofuel is way below the calorific value of ATF. Simply said, you need more biofuel to cover the same distance a lesser amount of pure ATF would take. So the only benefits are tribal financial growth and foreign exchange savings.
It is an excellent move for using ten percent biofuel along with conventional fuel in Antho Nova (AN-32) aircraft, which is being used as logistic support and transportation of army personnel across country including adverse environmental vagaries i.e. extremes of hot conditions at Deserts to extremes cold cold conditions high to extreme altitudes in esatern to western Himalays. These factors may influece the functioning on biofuel mixed oil. So in this connection, it is suggested that the makers of AN-32 in Russia are duly consulted and after that its various test drives under those conditions be conducted critically to avoid any types of mishappening in future.
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Antonov AN-32, is a Soviet built workhorse for Indian Airforce. Those who are in the Military service would have had the pleasure of traveling in this crude, compared to the civil jetliner, transport aircraft. While working at the DRDO lab Centre for Military Airworthinesd and Certification (CEMILAC), I had several occasions to travel in AN-32 as well Ilyushin IL-76, Avro HS-748 and Dornier. Those were the days when I was not eligible to travel by civil Air due to my lower basic pay. I used to hitch-hike and hopon-hopoff military aircraft for my official trips to AF stations. These rugged aircraft are the lifelines of our soldiers on the mountains, deserts and glaciers
Speaking about CEMILAC, it has a unit specially for certifying Fuels, Oils and Lubricants at Bengaluru in addition to several other units spread across India to certify aircraft, engine, missile and armaments. I had an occasion to work on certifying an indigenous lubricant developed at Mysuru for engines
Now it is heartening to note that my erstwhile DRDO colleagues have certified green fuel for AN-32, which also meet certain societal obligations. It is a long uncherished dream yet unfulfilled for India to have own transport aircraft to replace ageing AN-32s and IL-76s.
When did just 10% blend attain the status of “Green fuel”? Also carbon footprint is determined based on the CO2 released. It doesn’t matter if you burn ATF or biofuel. Many studies in the west have shown that blending biofuels with petrol tends to harm old internal combustion engines. So without proper equipment, it is doing more harm than good. Also the calorific value of biofuel is way below the calorific value of ATF. Simply said, you need more biofuel to cover the same distance a lesser amount of pure ATF would take. So the only benefits are tribal financial growth and foreign exchange savings.
It is an excellent move for using ten percent biofuel along with conventional fuel in Antho Nova (AN-32) aircraft, which is being used as logistic support and transportation of army personnel across country including adverse environmental vagaries i.e. extremes of hot conditions at Deserts to extremes cold cold conditions high to extreme altitudes in esatern to western Himalays. These factors may influece the functioning on biofuel mixed oil. So in this connection, it is suggested that the makers of AN-32 in Russia are duly consulted and after that its various test drives under those conditions be conducted critically to avoid any types of mishappening in future.