Sentences with phrase «of diesel fuel»

In 2007, medium - size and heavy trucks used 34 billion gallons of diesel fuel.

Generally delivers better fuel economy and more pulling power than a comparable gas engine, but requires the use of diesel fuel, which is harder to find than gasoline and often costs more.

I remember the shock when the price of diesel fuel went up a penny a gallon.

Farm equipment used to feed and maintain livestock and plant and harvest crops uses a lot of diesel fuel and other utilities from fossil fuels.

At the moment, only five percent of the world production of diesel fuel makes use of this process, because it is cheaper for companies to use more polluting substances.

The purpose of the unit is to cut down on the amount of diesel fuel used and to cut down on the amount of garbage that camps generate, which are both security risks.

They did, however, determine that only between 2 and 28 per cent of the diesel fuel that was released rose to the surface.

The tests included releases of 60 cubic metres of crude oil and 60 cubic metres of diesel fuel over separate 1 - hour periods.

They utilize the amount of diesel fuel needed to keep the engine running and to provide the work needed to do the job required of them.

These vehicles consume roughly 140 Billion gallons of gasoline, 60 Billion gallons of diesel fuel, and 9 Billion gallons of ethanol every year.

The EPA first listed kerosene as a type of diesel fuel in May 2012 when it released a draft version of the rule finalized this year.

By going solar Turtle Island will save an estimated 127,000 liters of diesel fuel per year, significantly reducing their carbon footprint.

Kerosene is also listed as a type of diesel fuel in the definition of the Toxic Substance Control Act, which controls the production, use and disposal of chemicals.

Despite the higher cost of diesel fuel, the CRD's 30 percent better fuel economy (18 city / 23 highway) more than makes up for the premium in price.

If their goal of getting renewable power to 118,000 stations is reached, they will save as much as 6.6 million gallons of diesel fuel per year, and avoid as much as 6.3 million tons of CO2.

The first UOP - derived ecofining facility, capable of producing 100 million gallons of diesel fuel for ground vehicles, is now being built in Livorno, Italy; a second facility is set to be constructed in Sines, Portugal.

Fuel economy is outstanding: the GL 320 BlueTEC, for example, consumes just 9.5 litres of diesel fuel per 100 kilometres (25 mpg).

-- Filter the soot produced by incomplete combustion of diesel fuel in vehicles, and attempt to eliminate inefficient internal combustion engine vehicles entirely.

Meanwhile, Beijing has suspended exports of diesel fuel indefinitely in anticipation of surging domestic fuel demand during the coming peak summer season.

The hum of traffic and smell of diesel fuel drift through the ruined nave, hinting of the very industriousness that drew Nazi bombers in the first place to Coventry, the center of Britain's motor and aviation industry a hundred miles northwest of London.

The reason we didn't get the miserly diesels is simple: the quality of the diesel fuel available in this country was too poor to run the new engines on.

Hennessy claims that these can produce «at least a 50 percent reduction in the burning of diesel fuel, plus the diesels will need less maintenance and last much longer.

The DOE's Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs provided some initial funding in 2010, saying that the project aimed to reduce fossil fuel consumption by 40 percent and displace 200,000 gallons of diesel fuel with wind energy.

That material includes everything from buildings and railways, to tanks of diesel fuel, radioactive coolant, and likely an unknown amount of toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).

The 3000cc V6 engine will not features a Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF) which will ensure this engine runs on the type of diesel fuel available in India.

The Problem: The electrical connectors of the diesel fuel heater may overheat, which could cause the fuel heater to leak fuel, increasing the risk of a fire.

This newfound economy, along with the higher thermal efficiency of diesel fuel, cuts the Grand Cherokee's CO2 output significantly.

A congressional investigation disclosed that companies across the country have illegally injected millions of gallons of diesel fuel underground without obtaining Safe Drinking Water Act permits.

Last year, JBEI developed a method to produce a synthetic form of diesel fuel from E. coli called bisabolane (ClimateWire, Sept. 29, 2011).

He flicked his cigarette into a puddle of diesel fuel.

A tanker car that partially derailed spilled 2,100 gallons of diesel fuel at the CSX rail yard, Selkirk Fire Chief Joe Michaniw said.

The May 18 fire in Ace Hardware at 60 Hudson St. did not come close to igniting the 80,000 gallons of diesel fuel stored in the building, FDNY said.

Residents of Dutchtown, a small neighborhood in Rockland County, awoke Sunday morning to the stench of diesel fuel blowing in off the nearby Hudson River.

The wells also contained benzene at 50 times the level that is considered safe for people, as well as phenols — another dangerous human carcinogen — acetone, toluene, naphthalene and traces of diesel fuel.

Such ships largely rely on heavy fuel oil, which both contributes to greenhouse gas emissions and is a public health hazard, containing as much as 1,800 times the sulfur of diesel fuel, says James Corbett, an expert in global shipping at the University of Delaware in Newark.

In a 2005 review of the experiment, however, Adams suggests that much of the diesel fuel and crude oil remained submerged in the form of droplets that only slowly made their way to the surface.

The large percentage of diesel fuel that went missing in the 2000 study was put down to evaporation and natural dispersion.

Energy In Depth said the Integrity Project was «retroactively changing the definition of diesel fuel in order to malign more operations for engaging in an activity (a «diesel frack») that did not occur.»

A minimum cetane number is specified in the ASTM standard that defines the quality of diesel fuel sold in the United States.

The industry groups then shifted their argument, declaring that they could not be in violation of federal regulations in their use of diesel fuels because the EPA had never adequately spelled out exactly what exact kinds of fuels were barred.

By simulating how a highly volatile, low - soot fuel behaves in many engine designs, «We hope to retain the performance of diesel fuel with lower particulate matter and nitrogen oxide emissions,» said Roberto Torelli, an Argonne postdoctoral researcher on Som's team.

I would guess there were 50 or 60 of them, 40 or 50 anyway, just snaking all around the inside of the perimeter, you know, gated area of this plant and that was, I was told, one day's supply of diesel fuel for one of the turbines that they have; and when they are done I believe, they'll have 8 or 9 turbines.

A biotech company plans to announce Tuesday that it has won a patent on a genetically altered bacterium that converts sunlight and carbon dioxide into ingredients of diesel fuel.

55 A byproduct of diesel fuel combustion, it has also been implicated in neural tube defects, decreases in birth weight and head circumference during pregnancy and at birth, and impaired mental development in fetuses.56 Fortunately, it seems that some of these toxic effects can be mitigated with a diet high in antioxidants.57

It's funny to think of a Volt or a Leaf as the mammoth cell phones of the car world, but if lithium - air batteries, which have the energy density of diesel fuel, come into widespread use, 100 miles of EV range will probably seem as quaint as a Motorola StarTac.

If this happens try not to stop before the process is complete as in some cars this can cause a build up of diesel fuel in the sump oil.

Then there's the low price of oil, and the typically higher price for a gallon of diesel fuel versus a gallon of gas, which Nicholson acknowledges can make diesels a tough sell in our market.

The EarthRoamer also has 2,100 watts of solar capability with panels on its roof, a 20,000 - watt lithium ion battery bank, a PTO driven hydraulic generator, 250 gallons of fresh water capacity, and 115 gallons of diesel fuel capacity.