Sentences with phrase «emissions systems into»

Volkswagen's worldwide repair of 11 million diesel vehicles to bring their emissions systems into compliance with pollution regulations is shaping up to be one of the most complex...

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Meanwhile, a system ensuring that state - of - the - art controls on emissions do not translate into a fatal competitive disadvantage would enable Canada to throw all its energies at providing incentives for the high - quality «green jobs» that need to be in place for the next generation.

By preventing steam escaping into the brewery's condensate recovery systems, the steam traps also improved the site's environmental image by eliminating visible steam emissions.

Switching to PurPod100 ™ and putting the used pods into a municipal or industrial composting system can reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

They include: high levels of degraded soils; reductions in irrigation quotas to restore the health of the Murray - Darling system; the re-forestation of some agricultural land to meet emissions reductions targets; the impacts of peak oil, such as the diversion of food crops into feed - stock for biofuels; and the price and crop yield implications of peak phosphorous, given Australia's dependence on imported fertilisers.

In order to compare farming systems, they are subdivided into emissions due to burning of oil and fuel (direct energy) and the use of oil and fuel for the production and transport of fertilizers, machinery and synthetic pesticides (indirect energy).

«Importing LIE traffic to Westchester will overwhelm our roads and communities, add billions of tons of carbon emissions into our air, and divert desperately needed infrastructure dollars from being spent where they are truly needed — on our existing roads, bridges, and rail systems.

Farmers were still trying to understand how agriculture would play into the emissions trading system, Niles said.

The country is developing a carbon - trading system that is expected to go into effect next year, and is also scrambling to find ways to cut emissions causing its massive urban air - pollution problem, says Dawe.

Indeed, even if we ended all emissions tomorrow, additional warming is on the way thanks to the momentum built into the earth's intricate climate system.

Global methane and ethane emissions from oil production from 1980 to 2012 were far higher than previous estimates show, according to a new study which for the first time takes into account different production management systems and geological conditions around the world.

A recent report by the Intelligent Transportation Society of America projects that so - called intelligent transportation systems (ITS) could achieve a 2 to 4 percent reduction in oil consumption and related greenhouse gas emissions each year over the next 10 years as these technologies percolate into the market.

In the mid-1980s, the company teamed up with another, Lean Burn Associates, to add a second component: a system which recirculates some exhaust gases into the air intake, which reduces emissions of oxides of nitrogen.

Each system also has residual benefits that could reduce CO2 emissions that may not be factored into calculating bike - sharing's carbon footprint.

A 2012 University of British Columbia study focusing on the climate benefits of bike sharing in Vancouver says numerous factors play into how effective a bike - share system is at reducing emissions.

Scientists in Australia are trialling a carbon capture system that turns emissions into green building materials, while a consortium led by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland says it has created a more economical and ecological carbon capture system for use at power plants.

«Substantial reductions in emissions are possible for both the U.S. and the rest of the world, but it will take herculean efforts and transforming the global energy system into one that does not use the sky as a waste dump,» Caldeira said.

The practical brightness takes all application specific parameters into account, including the specs of your microscope (excitation wavelength, available emission filters, and detector sensitivity) and the biological system (temperature, prokaryote versus eukaryote, background fluorescence).

«Usually when we see a short gamma - ray burst, the jet emission generated gets bright for a short time as it smashes into the surrounding medium — then fades as the system stops injecting energy into the outflow,» says Daryl Haggard, lead researcher on a new study describing the continued observations.

Today's workshop on «Benefits Sharing and Safeguards» for policies to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD +) also included newly released recommendations for how California can bring REDD + offset credits into its statewide cap - and - trade system with environmental integrity and social equity.

Emissions from personal - care products make their way into the atmosphere when we have the windows open or spend time outside, say the researchers, but also through the ventilation systems of our cars, homes, and workplaces.

The EGR system works by recirculating some of the exhaust gas back into the intake to lower combustion temperatures and cut emissions of nitrogen oxides.

When questioned about the fictitious sounding overrun, Porsche's engineers stated that, like the Jaguar F - Type and its maniacal exhaust, small droplets of unburnt fuel are dropped into the exhaust system not only to engineer the 911's soundtrack, but also to keep the catalytic converters hot and emissions down.

Porsche also got the engine to meet tough Tier 2 BIN 5 emissions requirements with an after treatment system that injects AdBlue urea fluid into the exhaust gas stream to reduce NOx.

NMIM uses current versions of MOBILE6 and NONROAD to calculate emission inventories, based on multiple input scenarios that users can enter into the system, and can be used to calculate national or individual state or county inventories.

Newer cars emission systems recycle heavy carbon and oil mist from the crankcase directly into the intake and some bypass valves get clogged up similar to modern intake manifolds.

The powertrain control module (PCM) has detected a problem in the secondary air injection system, which reduces emissions by pumping ambient air into the exhaust stream.

The purpose of the evaporative emission (EVAP) control system is to protect drivers, passengers, and the atmosphere from pollutants that would otherwise be expelled into the environment by the engine.The powertrain control module (PCM) receives information from the EVAP system pressure sensor and flow sensor, regarding the voltage readings of the EVAP system pressure and flow.

While increased engine efficiency will be the main contributor, transmission systems account for 7 — 12 % of powertrain losses when converting fuel energy into motive power, so they also have an important role to play in helping to reduce emissions.

Its cooled exhaust gas recirculation system contributes to lower emissions by diverting some of the exhaust gas and mixing it back into the fresh intake air stream and back into the cylinder head.

With the combination of a NOx oxidating catalytic converter and a downstream SCR catalytic converter, which is integrated into the diesel particulate filter and uses AdBlue injection to reduce oxides of nitrogen, the V8 TDI has a particularly efficient emissions control system.

With the combination of a NOx oxidizing catalytic converter and a downstream SCR catalytic converter, which is integrated into the diesel particulate filter and uses AdBlue injection to reduce oxides of nitrogen, the V8 TDI has an efficient emissions control system.

To further improve emissions compliance, the 3.5 L V6 makes use of an after - cat design exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system that allows cleaner, cooler EGR gas to be fed back into the intake system.

By closing exhaust valves later than normal, the cam phasing system forces the desired amount of exhaust gas back into the combustion chamber for more complete burning in the next combustion cycle resulting in improved fuel economy and lower emissions.

This segment manufactures ICs in support of automated systems that are incorporated into vehicles, such as collision avoidance and emissions control systems.

We look for ways to reduce environmental impact, such as emissions cleaning systems and processes to prevent contaminants from being released into the environment.

Somehow it seems disingenuous to call such a system «zero - emissions» if it requires pumping carbon dioxide into the ground for storage.

The system is trying to turn it all back into O2, but it just can't keep up because of the rapid emission rate.

Gates hammered on points reported here for many years: that without a big, and sustained, boost in spending on basic research and development on energy frontiers, the chances of triggering an energy revolution are nil; that while the private sector and venture capital investors are vital for transforming breakthroughs into marketable products or services, they will not invest in the long - haul inquiry that's required to generate game - changing breakthroughs; that a 1 or 2 percent tax on carbon - emitting fuels could generate a large, steady stream of money for invigorating the innovation pipeline; that a declining emissions cap and credit trading system --- if it could survive America's polarized politics --- would have to raise energy costs far beyond what would be politically tenable to generate a similar scale of transformational activity.

What this says is that if you insist on large amounts of renewables in your mix, you had better put a lot more into R&D on systems that can supply load following without emissions.

, then the interaction gets complicated, but if we stick to purely complete emission and absorption of photons, with any scattering preserving photon energy, then, if the non-photons within each local system are at LTE, then they will emit into a direction as much as they absorb from a direction of the same type of photons if their temperature is the same as the brightness temperature of the incident photons.

If less energy is radiated into space because of greenhouse gases, the Earth's temperature must rise until the emission of infrared increases enough that the system returns to equilibrium.

But even when carbon dioxide does make its way out of the atmosphere, Earth's natural systems can release other carbon dioxide molecules that were previously stored in the oceans / land back into the atmosphere, making the full effect of carbon dioxide emissions on surface temperatures much longer than this 5 - 200 year average.

EPA can only regulate one category of smokestacks at a time, and its regulations must meet the relevant Clean Air Act criteria, e.g. «the best system of emission reduction which (taking into account the cost of achieving such reduction and any non-air quality health and environmental impact and energy requirements) the Administrator determines has been adequately demonstrated.»

Higher density sources of fuel such as coal and natural gas utilized in centrally - produced power stations actually improve the environmental footprint of the poorest nations while at the same time lifting people from the scourge of poverty... Developing countries in Asia already burn more than twice the coal that North America does, and that discrepancy will continue to expand... So, downward adjustments to North American coal use will have virtually no effect on global CO2 emissions (or the climate), no matter how sensitive one thinks the climate system might be to the extra CO2 we are putting back into the atmosphere.

You either have to be talking about sucking a lot of CO2 out of the atmosphere once emissions have peaked, or you have to talk about reducing, slightly, the amount of sunlight that's coming into the system.

This is because the fundamental problem concerns the way GHG emissions affect the flow of energy through the climate system, and temperature is just one of many forms energy takes.In the long term, the earth must shed energy into space at the same rate at which it absorbs energy from the sun.

Under § 111 (a) of the Clean Air Act (CAA), performance standards are to reflect the «best system of emission reduction» (BSER) that has been «adequately demonstrated,» taking «cost» into account.

The Malaysian Board member considered that the GCF is now in a serious mode to show the world that countries are able to reduce emissions with good forest governance, and the United Kingdom said the outcome was very much in the spirit of compromise, and was pleased to see the 2019 review built into the decision, expecting to build a more robust system in the future.

The hydrogen could then be reused to generate electricity when needed, injected into the heating system or used as low - emission fuel for hydrogen fuel - cell cars.