‘CSIR Searching for Commercial Partner to Run Flights on Biofuel’

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December 6, 2018

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by Santosh Patnaik (The Hindu) Move will help India reduce oil import bill to almost zero, says CSIR D-G — The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), the largest research and scientific body in the country, is scouting for a commercial partner to run commercial and defence aircraft on biofuel, its Director-General Shekhar Mande has said.

The autonomous body which was credited with the success in powering the first flight with the indigenously produced aviation biofuel on patented technology of CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun from the capital of Uttarakhand to New Delhi in a SpiceJet aircraft last month.

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The CSIR, he said, was committed to fuel security which could help the country save on foreign exchange by reducing the import bill to almost zero in a few years, adding that the Union Ministry of Agriculture was collaborating for the biofuel project. READ MORE

CSIR working on developing biofuels on a commercial scale (Times of India)

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