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UPS Adopts Plan to Cut Its Airline Carbon Emissions An Additional 20% by 2020; Biofuels Part of the Plan

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UPS has adopted a plan to cut the carbon emissions of its airline by an additional 20% by 2020 to 1.24 Jet A fuel is the leading source of UPS global enterprise CO 2 emissions at 52.6%, followed by diesel at 32.7%. UPS started replacing 747-200s with the more fuel-efficient 747-400s aircraft in 2007. Click to enlarge.

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FT and FT blends significantly reduce gaseous and particulate emissions compared to conventional JP-8 fuel in helicopter engine

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The goal of their study was to understand how alternative fuels affect the primary PM emissions, the semi-volatile nature of the these emissions, and the potential for the emissions to form secondary PM. —Drozd et al. Drozd, Marissa A. Miracolo, Albert A. Presto, Eric M. Lipsky, Daniel D. Riemer, Edwin Corporan, and Allen L.

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