Brazil have got off to a flying start at the World Cup fuelled by Neymar, Oscar, and used cooking oil.

 

GOL Airlines, which is transporting the Seleção, is using Honeywell Green Jet Fuel made from inedible corn oil and used cooking oil blended with 50 per cent petroleum-based jet fuel to power 200 commercial flights during the competition including those carrying the team to games across Brazil.

 

UOP LLC, the Honeywell-owned company that developed the process behind the fuel, has supplied nearly 92,000 litres to GOL and says it will reduce greenhouse gases by 185 metric tonnes of CO2 over the course of the event.

 

The fuel, which Honeywell claims produces 65 to 85 per cent lower emissions than petroleum-based fuels, was also used on flights to the Rio+20 UN Conference in 2012. Around 30 million tonnes (114 million litres) is expected to be produced when the first fully commercial production of renewable jet fuel in the US starts up this year, of which United Airlines is due to purchase 15 million gallons (57 million litres).

 

"Honeywell Green Jet Fuel offers lower emissions than traditional petroleum-derived jet fuel and can be made from a variety of non-edible feedstocks, providing a flexible, renewable solution to meeting the current and future needs of Latin America and elsewhere," said Veronica May, vice president and general manager of UOP's Renewable Energy and Chemicals business unit.