Sentences with phrase «as octane rating»

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Ethanol, an alcohol that can be made from corn, is now widely used as a gasoline additive due to its oxygen content and octane rating, or antiknock index.

Just as a typical oil refiner cracks petroleum into a mixture of hydrocarbons ranging from ethane to jet fuel, Virent transforms sugars into a fuel that has a 102 octane rating.

The octane rating for a vehicle can usually be found inside the owners manual (depending on your area you should see at least three of these as your average pump 87,88,89,90,91,93).

Contrarily, using a higher octane than what the vehicle is rated for would mean the gasoline mixture would not combust as readily as the engine needs it to.

When phase separation occurs, the octane rating of the remaining fuel can drop by as much as three points.

The car runs on 100 octane fuel to avoid knocking and premature combustion issues as the high octane fuel requires higher heat / compression rate for the combustion and best used with the powerful turbocharged engines.

In relation to octane rating of fuel, the PCM retards ignition timing as needed to forestall detonation.

Power is rated at 240 horsepower and 270 pound - feet of torque with a tank full of premium gasoline — although it will run just fine with 87 - octane regular fuel as well.

If a blend of gasoline provides the same knock resistance as a mixture of 87 percent isooctane and 13 percent n - heptane, it gets an 87 Octane rating.