Sentences with phrase «chain hydrocarbon fuels»
They eschew expensive platinum catalysts by operating at high temperature, and because they can use a variety of small - chain hydrocarbon fuels, they can use today's fuel, not tomorrow's.
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«Gasoline tends to contain short - chain hydrocarbons, say C8, with more branches, whereas diesel and jet fuel contain long - chain hydrocarbons with few branches,» Keasling notes.
Changing World Technologies» method of thermal depolymerization used intense heat and pressure to break waste materials into desirable, short - chain hydrocarbons (much like the Earth's super-slow, fossil fuel - producing process).
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).