Sentences with phrase «of diesel used»

The Climeon system will drastically reduce the need of diesel used in generators leading to lower fuel usage and lower sulfur emissions.

but they state the move will reduce the amount of paper used by the firm by a massive 8,500 tonnes (65pc per item) each year, saving 20 m megajoules of electricity, 1m l of water, 500,000 l of diesel used, 275 tonnes of plastic plus chemicals that have to be processed to dispose of them safely.

Not exact matches

This gas, composed mostly of methane, can be used as a fuel for power generation (replacing diesel generators), compressed or sold into the natural gas grid.

Tesla has stated that the microgrid will offset the island's previous use of 109,500 gallons of diesel per year, along with the import shipping costs to get that fuel there in the first place.

The three - wheeled car weighs about 1,200 pounds and features a single - cylinder 7 - hp engine that uses either diesel or ethanol and networked batteries to drive two electric motors, giving it the equivalent of 16 hp and a max speed of about 70 mph.

It is a mirror image of what happened with distillate products in the winter, when weak demand for diesel and heating oil left a big surplus in those products, and hammered independent refiners» earnings at a time when those products are normally in high use.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) accused the carmaker of illegally using hidden software to allow excess diesel emissions on Thursday but CEO Sergio Marchionne said the news would not affect the company's financial targets, according to reports in Italy.

Since the Sept. 18 announcement by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of VW's deliberately - doctored tests, the value of used VW and Audi diesels in the U.S. has fallen an average of 13 %, according to Kelley Blue Book.

Producers would have to develop new products and uses for the resource — gasoline, diesel, heating oil, asphalt, lubricants, petrochemicals and aviation fuel — before oil supplanted coal, wood and whale oil, the dominant energy sources of the day.

Schulz said he intended to strengthen consumers» right to sue companies, using the example of diesel drivers being able to sue the Volkswagen Group following the diesel scandal, known as Dieselgate.

Prices are so low, in fact — a gallon of diesel is less than $ 0.50 — that it has led to excessive and wasteful use of energy resources that could be reserved or exported instead.

The following are some facts about diesel car engines, the tailpipe pollution they emit and the «defeat device» software that federal regulators say VW used to circumvent emissions standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the state of California.

This regional market has pipelines running both in and out of it, and oil is used by refineries within the region to produce gasoline, diesel fuel and other products.

Hagens Berman is one of the most successful auto litigation law firms in the U.S. and is presently leading nationwide cases against Volkswagen, GM, Mercedes and Fiat Chrysler for use of diesel emissions - cheating software.

He compared it to how VW's used to bolster its environmental credentials by marketing so - called «clean diesel» cars, even though the majority of cars it sold in the U.S. were not diesel.

What did the revolts brought to the people in those countries any thing other than continuos unending revolts and demonstrations scarcity of essential commodities and products adding to the sky high prices... While other essential needs such as electricity power supply, water, gas, diesel, petrol are being used as a pressure tool by the opposition or the ruling party to keep people mad on the streets rather than going home seeing to their daily living making and minding their own businesses... but what business will continue with such chaos and disorder...?

The main energy sources used in the industry are gas and electricity, but there is also significant use of diesel generation, and a growing interest and use of biogas and solar generation as alternatives in the face of conventional energy costs continuing to rise.

The Environmental Advocates of New York on Friday called on the state's elected leaders to use $ 117 million in settlement money from Volkswagen to implement a decade - old law aimed at reducing diesel emissions in New York.

The use of petrol and diesel engines to power cars will also need to be «much less dominant» and replaced with electric power and biofuels, a policy meeting in the House of Commons heard.

Policy makers encourage the use of advance internal combustion engine vehicles (particularly diesel), as well as hybrid technology and emerging plug - in electric vehicles to meet the medium - term demands of the issue (to 2020).

«They want them there just as an ultimate level of security, but they'll be roughly 90 percent less polluting than the existing ones... With just the diesel generators you can only power a couple of lights and maybe one elevator but if you actually wanted to use this as a shelter for an extended period of time you would need the cogeneration plant,» he said.

France is set to ban the sale of any car that uses petrol or diesel fuel by 2040, in what the ecology minister called a «revolution».

The Federal High Court in Calabar, Cross River State, on Tuesday sentenced two petroleum dealers to 20 years» imprisonment without an option of fine for stealing Automotive Gas Oil, otherwise known as diesel, using forged documents.

Construction works are ongoing at some of petrol stations in the Ashanti Region, despite a presidential fiat ordering the temporary cessation of the construction of facilities intended for use as gas or petrol / diesel retail outlets.

«From an engineering standpoint, the diesel fuel and the way we use it allow us to be more thermodynamically efficient,» said Margaret Wooldridge, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan.

The New Plant Fuel «Green diesel,» as it's being called, isn't the first effort to use plants to power cars; your gas tank probably has a blend of gas and plant - derived ethanol inside it right now.

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

«The majority of the locomotives in use at Paddington were «grandfathered» (made exempt from the regulations for modern diesel locomotives).

Many explosives, such as the bomb used in the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, use fuel oils like diesel as one of its major components.

The group found that although fuel - cell vehicles would produce zero greenhouse - gas emissions during use, the extraction and refinement of hydrogen fuel would release three to five times as much carbon into the air as is released in procuring and refining gasoline and diesel.

The system enables large - bore, multi-cylinder engines used in trains, pipelines, backup diesel generators and other fields to run efficiently while producing lower levels of harmful emissions than they do currently.

If oil - intensive algae were cultivated on a broad scale — the kind of scale now used for other commercial crops — they could eventually replace the 70 percent of the U.S. oil supply used for transportation in the form of jet fuel, gasoline, and diesel, according to Weeks.

If you take into account the energy used to produce the electricity, and compare it with a well - to - wheel analysis of the most efficient diesel - engine cars available today, the difference is already fairly small, says Kintner - Meyer.

«It's a combination of cleaner fuel, advancements to the engine, and the use of emissions control technology,» says Allen Schaeffer, executive director of the Diesel Technology Forum, an organization supporting the use of clean diesel technology.

«Oil companies have processes to turn this [syngas] into gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel,» said Rich Masel, CEO of Dioxide Materials and a retired professor, pointing out how companies like BP PLC have operated synthetic fuel facilities for 20 years, albeit using natural gas instead of recycled carbon as a feedstock.

A mixture of gas turbine and diesel generators should be used, he says, and water and air cooling systems should both be considered for diesel generators in case a shortage of air or water might be an issue at the generator location.

An analysis by an environmental group finds hundreds of cases in which drillers used diesel fuel without obtaining permits and sometimes altered records

In the West, the main producers of soot are diesel engines, but the Clean Air Act gives EPA the authority to regulate only 9 % of the 11 million diesel engines in use today.

The EPA then acted to make its enforcement authority explicit, and earlier this year finalized more detailed regulations governing the use of diesel fuels in fracking operations.

Rocket engines, gas turbines and diesel engines experience conditions in their combustion chamber that exceed the critical conditions of their fuel, and supercritical finely atomized sprays are used to coat tablets in the production of medicines.

A fuel - cell power unit that can use natural gas, propane or diesel may in a couple of years provide on - site electricity to factories, computer - server farms and even your home.

Indeed, in a 2011 email to ProPublica, Halliburton, a company listed in the congressional investigation as having used 7.2 million gallons of diesel fuel, said it had not violated any laws «because there are currently no requirements in the federal environmental regulations that require a company to obtain a federal permit prior to undertaking a hydraulic fracturing project using diesel.»

«Based on actual industry practices, diesel fuel use has already been effectively phased out of hydraulic fracturing operations,» Fuller said.

A new report charges that several oil and gas companies have been illegally using diesel fuel in their hydraulic fracturing operations, and then doctoring records to hide violations of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.

Energy In Depth, the communications and research arm of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, published a lengthy response to the Integrity Project's report and criticized it for including diesel use that occurred prior to a 2014 Environmental Protection Agency rule clarifying the types of chemicals considered «diesel fuels.»

New York City's Clean Heat Program was launched in 2010 to eliminate the use of residual diesel fuel oils — diesel - based fuels that remain after gasoline and distillate fuels have been removed from crude — in residential buildings, in order to help address city air pollution levels that historically failed to meet the minimum criteria for federal Clean Air Act standards.

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.

A final significant finding, Vogel says, is that yields on farms using fertilizer and other inputs, such as herbicides and diesel fuel for farm machinery, were as much as six times higher than yields on farms that used little or no fertilizer, herbicides, or other inputs to grow a mixture of native prairie grasses.

They then tracked the inputs they used — diesel for farm equipment and transporting the harvested grasses, for example — as well as the amount of grass they raised over a 5 - year period.

«We want to check whether electric goods vehicles in the city can contribute to improved air quality, and whether we can facilitate the routing and transhipment of goods so as to avoid using large diesel vehicles in the city centre.»