Sentences with phrase «combustion of ethanol»

Heat of combustion of ethanol can be pulled from chemical reference books.

Not exact matches

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A team at the University of Birmingham reports that a blend of 33 % v / v of butanol in EN228 commercial gasoline containing 5 % of ethanol (B33) reduces GDI (gasoline direct injection) engine - out carbonaceous emissions, while maintaining similar levels of NOx emissions when compared to standard gasoline combustion at low and medium... Read more →

(The wiki values imply densities of 0.72 to 0.74 kg / L for gasoline, 0.762 for Gasohol E10 (10 % ethanol by volume); for 0.73 kg / L and a composition of 84.117 to 85 wt % C (the former calculated for octane, the later given by an encyclopedia (Britannica Macropedia entry «Chemical Elements» p. 945, sorry don't know the year, I'm looking at a photocopy) for petroleum, g CO2 / gal from combustion should be 8517 to 8606.

You then take that ethanol and burn it into an internal combustion engine that is maybe 20 - 30 % efficient, and you end up with a tremendous amount of wasted energy... And you've used up farmland that could instead have grown food for human consumption, increasing food prices by reducing supply.

Representatives of the Brasa companies «should have known that any flame visible or invisible in the ethanol - fuelled lamp was an ignition source, and that vapours from the open refuelling container could act like an invisible wick, leading to combustion of the remaining ethanol in the open refuelling container,» alleges the statement of claim.