Sentences with phrase «kerosene known»

Specifically, Doug Rodante, president of Green Flight International (a company in Florida that promotes alternative aviation fuels), and chief test pilot Carol Sugars, a senior pilot with the United Parcel Service (UPS), conducted extensive fuel tests on the ground, beginning with a 20 percent blend of biodiesel and normal jet fuel (kerosene known as Jet A) and progressing to 100 percent biodiesel (B100) as their confidence increased.

The rocket's fuel, a mix of rocket - grade kerosene known as RP - 1 and liquid oxygen, is highly flammable.

Not exact matches

There was talk that Raffa was an arsonist and his beating a mob hit; that five gallons of kerosene had been found in his car and had somehow disappeared from the station house; that «every cop in Brooklyn» knows the name of Raffa's assailant but higher - ups refuse to arrest him; that the car containing the combustible evidence was driven away from the scene by Cuomo's detective - bodyguard, who's a relative of the Cuomo family; that the police reports (DD5s) on the case were missing from headquarters; and that the governor was at the scene shortly after the incident and had used state troopers to erase any evidence of his father - in - law's possible criminality.

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.

Heat and catalysts converted methane into syngas (carbon monoxide and hydrogen) which were then transformed into liquid hydrocarbons (otherwise known as oil and its derivatives): petroleum, gasoline and, in the case of aviation, kerosene.

«We no longer use the contract completions crews that used very small trace amounts of kerosene and a hydrocarbon distillate on five wells more than three years ago,» said John Christiansen, director of external communications at Anadarko Petroleum Corp., one of the companies listed in the report.

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).

A direct descendent of the R - 7 Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), the Soyuz - FG comprises a central «core» and four tapering, strap - on boosters, fueled by liquid oxygen and a highly refined form of rocket - grade kerosene, known as «RP - 1.»

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Petroleum contains a vast number of different chemicals, including the rich variety of chemicals known as gasoline, once considered a useless and dangerous by - product of kerosene production.

Keep in mind, however, that «tailpipe» or direct emissions for the refined products that come from the oil — gasoline, diesel, kerosene, etc — are basically the same no matter what the original feedstock is.

As with the Soccket ball, this design will no doubt have a vogue the world over, especially among people who can't be bothered traveling with cellphone chargers, but its target is poorer people and villages without power, while helping with climate change by reducing the need for kerosene, diesel and other pollutants.

Home oil furnaces can, with no exceptions I know of, burn both # 2 and # 1 heating oils, with # 1 otherwise known as kerosene, which is a solvent.

In Bihar, four homes in five are still lit by kerosene... The world's governing elites, however, no longer care about poverty.

But even with today's kerosene price, the clean alternatives are no longer 10 times as pricey, but rather 1.5 or 2 times as costly.