FMV and the U.S. Air Force is prepared to order 60 000 -70 000 liters of green fuel Bio Jet flights from Swedish Bio-fuels. The fuel will be tested in the JAS 39 Gripen fuel system and engine.
In the summer, or possibly this fall, is expected to FMV, Defence Materiel Administration, to issue an initial order for a new green alternative fuel samples to be tested on the Gripen engine and various subsystems of the Gripen. It should be done in cooperation with the U.S. Air Force research, AFRL or the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory.
Rickard Nordenberg, strategic adviser at FMV, the days of waiting to be
asked of the Armed Forces to order the fuel of the Swedish Bio-fuels.
"We hope to get a clearance from the Armed Forces as soon as this
summer," says Rickard Nordenberg.
New technology has previously reported on the successes of the small
Swedish Swedish Bio-fuels Development Corporation and chief executive
and researcher Angelica Hull.
The technology company’s interested in the former U.S Ambassador to
Sweden Michael Wood, to the point that he bought up five million U.S.
dollars from the U.S. Department of Defense research agency then to the
Swedish fuel project.
Angelica Hull has invested in developing an ethanol-based fuel made from
biomass or residues from wood industries and agricultural production.
In tests it has been shown to have characteristics that clearly
outshines the usual petroleum based jet-branslet JP8.
According to Rickard Nordenberg test fuel will be produced in Sweden.
Angelica Hull to the current situation does not make any comments about
the project because it is a sensitive military contracts, but the FMV,
the company has previously discussed the supplies of fuel with the
Swedish chemical company Perstorp AB.
-Tests on Gripen's subsystems will be made in Sweden but with the
analysis we will use the U.S. Air Force Research Lab. They have come
much further than us in terms of developing methods for the analysis and
monitoring of alternative fuels, "said Rickard Nordenberg.
