A new technology center is to research the use of waste cooking oil as aviation biofuel in China has been jointly funded by Boeing (NYSE: BA) and the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC).
The companies said that the project is a collaborative effort to support commercial aviation industry growth, and that the center's first research project will explore opportunities to refine waste cooking oil, often described in China as 'gutter oil', into a sustainable aviation biofuel. According to the partners the new center furthers the collaboration agreement made in March this y...