Sentences with phrase «kerosene fuel»

If it were me, I'd probably put a sticker on the gas tank that said something like «Use Kerosene fuel only»

Kerosene fueled rockets emit a mess of BC (soot) and uncombusted hydrocarbons.

In addition to outdoor air pollution, indoor smoke is a serious health risk for some 3 billion people who cook and heat their homes with biomass, kerosene fuels and coal.

Not exact matches

But kerosene or rocket - propellant grade kerosene, which is also what jets use — rockets use a very expensive form, a highly refined form of jet fuel, essentially, which is a form of kerosene.

The first stage used Rocket Propellant - 1, a form of kerosene similar to jet fuel, while the second and third stages relied on liquid hydrogen for fuel.

Those tests included repeatedly filling up the rocket with cryogenically cooled RP - 1, a type of kerosene used in jets, and liquid oxygen to combust the fuel.

The rocket's fuel, a mix of rocket - grade kerosene known as RP - 1 and liquid oxygen, is highly flammable.

With an ultimate feedstock capacity of one million barrels a day and «near net zero» emissions, the refinery would produce high - margin products such as kerosene and aviation fuel for the Asian market.

U.S. refinery and blender net production of kerosene - type jet fuel reached a record 1.7 million barrels per day in 2017, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, up 7 percent from two years ago.

Curiously, the hike in the price of kerosene came at a time when the price of crude oil had dropped to record low, with the price of petroleum products, such as kerosene, fuel and diesel, among others, dropping significantly in a number of countries, like the United States.

He said, «The low LPG consumption in Nigeria has resulted in heavy dependence on kerosene and firewood as primary domestic cooking fuel.

Kerosene lamps also pollute the air, and the fuel poses a poisoning hazard, especially to children.

This oil can be used as is, or further distilled (using a larger version of the bench - top distiller in the background) into lighter fuels such as naphtha, gasoline, and kerosene.

In fact, the alternative jet fuel — known as synthetic paraffinated kerosenes — has as good or better qualities than Jet A refined from petroleum: It does not freeze at high - altitude temperatures, delivers the same or more power to the engines, and is lighter, as well.

Cleaner - burning fossil fuels like kerosene would reduce deaths and greenhouse - gas emissions, but they cost too much for most Africans.

16 Ethanol was widely used as an industrial fuel in America until a tax on alcoholic beverages, levied to help pay for the Civil War, prompted a switch to kerosene and methanol.

Rock to Liquid Jet aircraft today typically burn kerosene, an energy - dense hydrocarbon fuel that delivers as much as 48 megajoules per kilogram (20,700 British thermal units per pound), allowing for long - distance travel.

Beyond Kerosene The amount of emissions from aircraft compared with other vehicles is relatively small — roughly 3 percent of total worldwide greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning, according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-- nonetheless it has a major impact on the climate.

«And these hydrocarbons can be converted into fuels — gasoline, kerosene and diesel, for example, the same way that one converts petroleum into these fuels.»

An example of what rocketeers call a pintle engine, even to a lay observer it is brilliantly straightforward, with one high - pressure coaxial fuel injector to mix rocket - grade kerosene and liquid oxygen instead of the hundreds of smaller injector holes used in other rocket engines.

When liquid fuel is the goal, then the ethylene is chemically bound together to form even longer hydrocarbon chains that we know as gasoline or kerosene (jet fuel).

The process, described in the January 28 Nature (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group), is perfect for creating hydrocarbons with at least 12 carbon atoms in them — besides diesel, the group includes jet fuel (kerosene).

According to the researchers, the choice of fuel was determined by its prevalence: the vast majority of airlines operate on kerosene derived from petroleum.

It is actually chemically the same fuel as that which is made from plants — synthetic paraffinic kerosene.

And, given the energy density of kerosene, there really is no alternative to liquid fuel either — with the exception of lightweight solar - powered drones, electric planes can not get off the ground.

Specifically, Doug Rodante, president of Green Flight International (a company in Florida that promotes alternative aviation fuels), and chief test pilot Carol Sugars, a senior pilot with the United Parcel Service (UPS), conducted extensive fuel tests on the ground, beginning with a 20 percent blend of biodiesel and normal jet fuel (kerosene known as Jet A) and progressing to 100 percent biodiesel (B100) as their confidence increased.

A direct descendent of the R - 7 Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), the Soyuz - FG comprises a central «core» and four tapering, strap - on boosters, fueled by liquid oxygen and a highly refined form of rocket - grade kerosene, known as «RP - 1.»

887 GtCO ₂ is the emissions from burning 285.6 Gt of kerosene (e.g., aviation fuel, home heating oil or the like, approximating that as C ₁₂ H ₂₆ and not dramatically different for diesel or petrol / gasoline).

For example, they can choose polymers (i.e. nylon, Kevlar, Teflon, types of glue, various plastics); vitamins and antioxidants (i.e. vitamins A, B6, B12, C, etc.); sweeteners (i.e. sugar, saccharin, aspartame, sucralose, etc.); or fuels (i.e. octane, propane, diesel, kerosene, etc.).

A one - off prototype belonging to the Le Mans Museum, it is powered by a single - rotor kerosene - fuelled turbine said to deliver 100bhp at 25,000 rpm.

In late 1970s Saab - Valmet also developed a dual - fuel version which was able to use kerosene or turpentine alongside gasoline.

I am sure this is due to a combination of the cold and the fuel cut with kerosene.

The planes will use biokerosene, a fuel derived from used frying oil, which has to be tested to meet the same technical specifications as traditional kerosene.

As for an alternative to kerosene as jet fuel, the military has been testing synthetic fuel for some time.

Just as importantly, energy poverty is a huge contributor to climate change, as those stuck in energy poverty are forced to rely on fuels like kerosene and firewood which caused enormous amounts of pollution.

Gita Devi cooked dinner on a small wood - fueled fire by the light of a small can of kerosene in the courtyard of her home in the village of Chakai Haat in the state of Bihar.

887 GtCO ₂ is the emissions from burning 285.6 Gt of kerosene (e.g., aviation fuel, home heating oil or the like, approximating that as C ₁₂ H ₂₆ and not dramatically different for diesel or petrol / gasoline).

-- All but 4.3 cents - per - gallon of the taxes on highway gasoline, diesel fuel, kerosene, and alternative fuels (Secs. 4041 (a) and 4081 (d)(1)-RRB--- Reduced rate of tax on partially exempt methanol or ethanol fuel (Sec. 4041 (m)-RRB--- Tax on retail sale of heavy highway vehicles (Sec. 4051 (c)-RRB--- Tax on heavy truck tires (Sec. 4071 (d)-RRB--- Annual use tax on heavy highway vehicles (Sec. 4481 (f)-RRB-

Fuels: Gasoline, Diesel, Heating Oil, Kerosene, Aviation, Marine; Lubricants: Commercial, Aviation, Marine, Personal; Synthetics

• The ascent of the ladder is associated with rising income, and the fuels which are higher up in the ladder tend to be more efficient (for lighting for example, electricity is more than one hundred times more efficient than candles or kerosene lamps).

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• The ladder begins with biomass fuels (firewood and charcoal), moves to modern commercial fuels (kerosene and LPG), and culminates with electricity (e.g., Albouy and Nadifi, 1999).

Burning agricultural waste, or burning coal inefficiently, or burning kerosene for lighting — any fossil fuel or biofuel burned incompletely is going to produce some amount of black carbon.

Once the researchers thermochemically split the water and carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide and hydrogen (syngas), they sent the syngas to Shell Global Solutions in Amsterdam, where the Fischer - Tropsch process was applied to refine it into kerosene, the jet fuel used by airplanes.

The developed countries of the world can talk forever about the virtues of solar panels and windmills, but what the energy - poor need most are common fuels like kerosene, propane, and gasoline.

Scientists with the SOLAR - JET Project have demonstrated the first - ever entire process to make kerosene, the jet fuel used by commercial airlines, using a high - temperature thermal solar reactor to create syngas.

Researchers at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, have concentrated 3,000 «suns» of solar thermal energy into a solar reactor at 1,500 °C for thermochemical splitting of H2O and CO2 into hydrogen and carbon monoxide (syngas), the precursor to kerosene and other liquid fuels.

SOLAR - JET receives 1st aireg Award for producing the first solar kerosene that can easily be used as fuel for aviation!

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«Every year, indoor air pollution is responsible for the death of 1.6 million people — that's one death every 20 seconds... In sub-Saharan Africa, the reliance on biomass fuels appears to be growing as a result of population growth and the unavailability of, or increases in the price of, alternatives such as kerosene and liquid petroleum gas.»