Sentences with phrase «from petroleum fueled»

Emissions from petroleum fueled vehicles contain greenhouse gases linked to climate change.

Air pollution from petroleum fueled vehicles causes numerous harmful effects to human health, including respiratory problems, heart and lung diseases, and premature death.

Not exact matches

Fuel prices have been in a downtrend since June, losing nearly 50 percent of their value, on the back of a price war waged by OPEC (the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) against the U.S. shale producers and as demand from China decreased amid slowing growth.

With an eye on the nation's fuel supply, the Department of Energy authorized a release of crude oil from the strategic petroleum reserve in order to help Phillips 66 get its Lake Charles refinery up and running.

Marathon Petroleum Corp agreed to buy rival Andeavor for more than $ 23 billion in a deal creating one of the largest global refiners that will benefit from access to booming U.S. shale fields and growing U.S. fuel export markets.

Imported fossil fuels provide the bulk of power fuel, with 47 percent of the island's electricity coming from petroleum, 34 percent from natural gas, 17 percent from coal, and just 2 percent from renewable energy in 2016, according to the Energy Information Administration.

Following the revelations from the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), that huge amounts of pre-mix fuel meant for fisher - folk, loaded from the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) had been diverted for the past eight months, it has emerged that political party executives in the constituencies, profit hugely from the mismanagement of the distribution.

The 356 miles of proposed pipelines from Albany to Linden, N.J., would carry heavy crude oil south and petroleum fuel north.

Current figures from the petroleum industry show that, prices of the two products at the various fuel stations have hit all time high, with petrol selling at an average of GHc4.29 at the pumps, and diesel going for an average of GHc4.23 per litre,...

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Emmanuel Kachikwu, on Wednesday, said regardless of the federal government's effort to end the ongoing fuel scarcity across the country, queues might not disappear from filling stations until about two months.

The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) also confirmed that the two companies alleged to have purchased the over 5 million litres of contaminated fuel under suspicious circumstances from BOST were not licensed.

Business News of Wednesday, 16 May 2018 Source: ghanaguardian.com File photo The price of fuel in the second pricing window of May which starts from May 16, 2018 will have a three percent increase the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) has predicted.

The U.S. Energy Department said on Thursday it would release 500,000 barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as Tropical Storm Harvey's disruption of the petroleum industry has spiked motor fuePetroleum Reserve as Tropical Storm Harvey's disruption of the petroleum industry has spiked motor fuepetroleum industry has spiked motor fuel prices.

The National Petroleum Authority, (NPA), has confirmed that the two companies alleged to have purchased the over 5 million litres of contaminated fuel under suspicious circumstances from the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST) Company, were not licensed to engage in that questionable transaction.

The amendment comes after recent protests against the rising cost of fuel, as well as calls from the minority for the Special Petroleum Tax to be scrapped.

A blog post from the Independent Petroleum Association of America called the document release a «desperate move» and the latest in a coordinated attempt to hurt the fossil fuel industry.

Although President Bush did not say as much, the Department of Energy is also pursuing an even more ambitious outcome — a «biorefinery» that could make not only fuel but also plastics and other products currently derived from petroleum.

In a short but historic flight, one of the company's Boeing 747 - 400s flew more than 200 miles (320 kilometers) from London Heathrow Airport to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, reaching a peak altitude of 25,000 feet (7,600 meters) during the 40 - minute flight, with one of its four engines burning a blend of 20 percent coconut and babassu oils mixed with regular petroleum - based jet fuel.

I think we'll need to make a transition to a point where our fuel is coming from other feedstocks in combination with petroleum.»

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.

Continental jet 516 — a two - engine Boeing 737 - 800 — completed a two hour test flight out of Houston today with one engine powered by a 50 - 50 blend of regular petroleum - based jet fuel and a synthetic alternative made from Jatropha and algae.

In addition, its «ecofining» process adds kinks in the chains to prevent them from easily stacking — or gelling — at cold temperatures, producing a diesellike fuel with as much as twice the combustion quality of the petroleum - derived variety.

Whether for supersonic fighter jets or commercial airliners, the aviation world has begun a quest for the fuel of the future, transitioning away from petroleum - derived JP - 8 and Jet A varieties to Fischer - Tropsch synthetics or biofuels.

The oil vapor, meanwhile, is condensed into a liquid fuel, which is then further upgraded and processed to make a green fuel similar to the bunker fuel that is used in cargo ship engines and industrial boilers, for example, except it lacks the pollution - causing sulfur common to the bunker fuel refined from petroleum.

The new facility in Hawaii will be the first integrated biorefinery dedicated to churning out bio-based versions of the full range of fuels more commonly made from petroleum.

«What you've got from the time you actually produce the fuel to the time you consume the fuel is a well - to - wheels carbon - free and petroleum - free transaction.»

If scientists can replace petroleum - based fuels with ones derived from sugars, Keasling posits, then we ought to be able to use the same fermentation process to derive petroleum's other chemicals from sugars as well.

«Heavy - petroleum fuels raising vanadium emissions: Human emissions of potentially harmful vanadium particles into Earth's atmosphere now exceed those from all natural sources combined..»

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.

Atmospheric concentrations of the most ubiquitous greenhouse gas reached 381 parts - per - million in 2006 after emissions of CO2 from burning fossil fuels rose to 8.4 billion metric tons (1.85 x 1013 pounds) per year, according to figures from the United Nations, British Petroleum and the U.S. Geological Survey.

A firm carbon price would encourage individuals and businesses to shift away from carbon - heavy fuels such as petroleum and coal.

Petroleum engineers, for example, monitor the flow of oil and gas from reservoirs and through pipelines to ensure a steady fuel supply.

Conventional fossil fuel takes millions of years to form, but a determined niche of modern alchemists are vastly accelerating the process to brew biocrude, a fuel similar to petroleum that is produced in less than two months from agricultural or municipal waste.

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

A fuel made from palm oil turns out to be worse for greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere than jet fuel refined from petroleum because it involves clearing rainforest or peatland.

If they do, it may one day make it cheaper to derive commodity chemicals and fuels from natural gas than from petroleum.

From such biomass, you can make all the same fuels that we make from petroleum today: gasoline, diesel, From such biomass, you can make all the same fuels that we make from petroleum today: gasoline, diesel, from petroleum today: gasoline, diesel, jet.

Jet fuels derived from algae, camelina and jatropha — plants that pack an energy punch, are not eaten as food and do not displace food crops — could be approved and replacing petroleum fuels in commercial flights as early as next year, a Boeing executive said yesterday.

«(B) the nonemissive use, in 2012 or later, of petroleum - based or coal - based liquid or gaseous fuel, petroleum coke, natural gas liquid, or natural gas as a feedstock, if allowances or offset credits were retired for the greenhouse gases that would have been emitted from their combustion; and

Representatives at the event included representatives from the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), both of which have received funding from the petroleum industry or ExxonMobil.

With the help of microbes, we could decrease our carbon footprint on the planet, by using renewable resources to make a lot of the fuels and chemicals we currently get from petroleum.

Then we agree that microbes are able to make chemicals and fuels, the same fuels we're currently making from petroleum products in often environmentally unfriendly ways.

This edition focuses on PNNL's biological and chemical sciences and engineering capabilities and how they are being applied to produce products and fuels from renewable biomass rather than petroleum.

Interest in biofuels — fuel derived from living organisms including biomass or their metabolic byproducts, such as manure from cows — grew throughout the end of the twentieth century as these are renewable energy sources, unlike other natural resources such as petroleum, coal, and nuclear fuels.

Freeman is a strong advocate for plug - in hybrid cars, so that electricity from renewable energy could replace petroleum as the transportation fuel.

We encourage you to investigate and include significant direct and indirect emissions from all fuels, including conventional petroleum, heavy oils, natural gas for transportation, oil sand - based fuels, and the range of fuels used to power electrified transportation, consistent with the best available science.

Why It Matters: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is helping drive the shift from petroleum to bio-based fuels by developing the scientific and engineering foundations for converting biomass to biofuels that are infrastructure ready.

The study will enable first - time biochemical synthesis of an aromatic fuel hydrocarbon from renewable resources rather than from petroleum.

The energy stored in petroleum and other fossil fuels was originally converted from sunlight by photosynthesis in the distant past.

published report, Hayward stated that holding the US back from fulfilling it's petroleum - based product requirements is «a reluctance to develop the nation's massive natural resources under the mistaken belief in the unproven science that claims carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from burning of fossil fuels is the major cause of recent and future warming of the Earth.