Sentences with phrase «on ethanol fuel»

We see this use of a fossil fuel as a temporary solution that in time will be upgraded with a new burner system, running on ethanol fuel derived from waste — ideally used coffee grinds.

Corn Plus took a chance on the ethanol fuel market 18 years ago and apparently had a pretty decent run of it until recently, when a number of circumstances (not just tax credits) changed.

Not exact matches

But that volatility, as Ghosh likes to note, is the upside of the integrated nature of the company, which gives it a continued hedge against the differential in world oil prices through its downstream and midstream assets — on the midstream side, Husky operates a 2,000 - kilometre crude - oil pipeline system, and its downstream operations include upgrading and refining crude oil, and marketing gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, asphalt and ethanol in Canada and the United States.

The base fuel tax on gasoline, diesel and ethanol is 25.6 cents per gallon.

The Brazilian car manufacturing industry developed flexible - fuel vehicles that can run on any proportion of gasoline (E20 - E25 blend) and hydrous ethanol (E100).

This Gumout fuel system cleaner also adds conditioners to help prevent future carbon build - up, ethanol and water corrosion, and also reduce friction and wear on the upper cylinder.

All this is happening with a fundamentally American technology: The flex - fuel engine and its precursor — the Model T, which Henry Ford expected to run on ethanol — were invented in the United States.

Despite concerns over Scott Pruitt's record of opposing ethanol, experts say the renewable - fuel program is on safe ground

Brazil, on the other hand, has managed to provide 40 percent of its transportation fuel from sugarcane - derived ethanol and helped develop the flex - fuel technology that now allows drivers in the U.S. to switch between gasoline and the biofuel.

16 Ethanol was widely used as an industrial fuel in America until a tax on alcoholic beverages, levied to help pay for the Civil War, prompted a switch to kerosene and methanol.

The study is the second major report this month calling for greater research on the environmental effects of producing ethanol and other renewable transportation fuels.

But experts at a major scientific meeting today described how ethanol blends used as fuel in the race cars of the Indianapolis 500 actually make those emissions cleaner than cars on the street.

But EPA's draft regulation refused to take a position on the controversial issue of whether corn - based ethanol or soybean - derived biodiesel actually qualifies as a «renewable fuel» under this standard.

While the project is focused on ethanol, the company says it is optimistic that its efforts will pave the way to try similar emission controls for fossil fuels like coal.

Using enzymes extracted from Escherichia coli bacteria, her team built an enzymatic fuel cell two years ago that runs on ethanol and can be attached directly to a circuit.

The company can produce more than 100 gallons of fuel per ton based on lab experiments because bacteria make more ethanol: «We aren't producing butanol, propanol, hexanol, octanol, and all the other alcohols,» Bolsen says.

Yet RangeFuels» fancy new ethanol plant, which will eventually pump out 100 million gallons of fuel a year, will feed mostly on wood chips.

As attorney general, Pruitt in 2013 filed a friend of the court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in which he argued the EPA ignored the risks that gasoline with more than 10 percent ethanol can pose to cars» fuel systems as well as the RFS requirement's possible effect on food prices.

Indeed, biofuels aren't really a stretch — humans have been using microorganisms to ferment plants into ethanol ever since Stone Age people began making beer around 10,000 B.C. Today's work hinges on engineering a perfect microbe that will eat the entirety of a plant, retain only a little of this food for itself and spew out the rest as a high - energy fuel.

For all its prowess in making cheap ethanol, Brazil, which spends relatively little on R&D, has fallen behind in the race to convert cellulose to fuel.

Actually, MacCready predicts that the big market in the coming decade or two may not be so much for all - electric cars as for hybrid cars designed to run on batteries in pollution - choked cities and on gasoline — or natural gas, or ethanol, or hydrogen, or some other range - extending fuel — on long highway trips (though the way Americans drive now, 90 percent of all car trips fall within Impact's 120 - mile range).

«Ozone and nitric oxide are both contributors to urban smog, so depending on how well a city is able to mitigate air pollution, ethanol may not be the «green fuel» that it is often called,» said Geiger, professor of chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.

São Paulo has the world's largest flexible - fuel vehicle fleet, with cars that can run on all gasoline, all ethanol or some mix of the two.

Moving forward, the team will continue to work on their device to scale up the production of ethylene as well as employ similar systems to produce liquid fuels such as ethanol and propanol.

That was the knock on ethanol: that it took more energy to create than it produced as fuel.

But the research suggests that even if researchers maximized the capacity to grow biofuels on all marginal lands, «the amount of cellulosic ethanol it could produce is only enough to provide 1.5 percent of U.S. transportation fuel by 2020.»

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China's shift toward alternative fuels in order to cut its reliance on imported oil is creating large opportunities, notably in natural gas vehicles (NGVs) and in the conversion of coal to ethanol, according to a new report from Lux Research.

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Noticeable advocacy contributions include the successful joint BIO / ETA petition to EPA for Tier 1 designation of Trichoderma reesei, ETA's redirect of FDA / CVM to follow due process for establishing regulatory guidance impacting the renewable fuel ethanol industry, numerous presentations on safety & regulatory paradigms for microbial biotechnology to authorities in the US, Canada, Brazil, and China, as well as the NAS Biotechnology Committee on Future Products of Biotechnology and New Harvest.

Following the decision of the Graphene Flagship (GF) Management Panel in November 2017, the NanoElMem project focused on «Designing new renewable nano - structured electrode and membrane materials for direct alkaline ethanol fuel cell» has been associated to Graphene Flagship.

The 5.3 - liter V - 8 in the 1500 can run on regular gas or E85 ethanol and uses Active Fuel Management to shut down cylinders to improve fuel econFuel Management to shut down cylinders to improve fuel econfuel economy.

The optional 5.3 - liter V - 8 gains flex - fuel capability, which means it's able to run on E85 ethanol, regular gasoline or any combination of the two.

API SN with Resource Conserving matches ILSAC GF - 5 by combining API SN performance with improved fuel economy, turbocharger protection, emission control system compatibility, and protection of engines operating on ethanol - containing fuels up to E85.

From a product standpoint there will be a lot of interesting hardware in showrooms, including range - extending EVs, plug - in hybrids, clean diesels, pure electrics, and flex - fuel vehicles running on cellulosic ethanol.

The latest Porsche models with a petrol engine are designed to operate on fuels with an ethanol content of up to 10 %.

E85 vehicles are also called Flexible Fuel Vehicles (FFV) due to their ability to operate on a blend of85 percent ethanol fuel and 15 percent unleaded gasoFuel Vehicles (FFV) due to their ability to operate on a blend of85 percent ethanol fuel and 15 percent unleaded gasofuel and 15 percent unleaded gasoline

Bugatti designed the powerplant as a flex - fuel engine so it can run on both gasoline and ethanol or any mixture of the two.

Vehicle that operates on any blend of fuel ethanol and unleaded gasoline, containing up to 85 percent ethanol fuel.

ENGINE 5.3 L FLEXFUEL ECOTEC3 V8 WITH ACTIVE FUEL MANAGEMENT DIRECT INJECTION AND VARIABLE VALVE TIMING includes aluminum block construction with Flex Fuel capability capable of running on unleaded or up to 85 % ethanol (355 hp [265 kW] @ 5600 rpm 383 lb - ft of torque [518 Nm] @ 4100 rpm; more than 300 lb - ft of torque from 2000 to 5600 rpm)(FUEL MANAGEMENT DIRECT INJECTION AND VARIABLE VALVE TIMING includes aluminum block construction with Flex Fuel capability capable of running on unleaded or up to 85 % ethanol (355 hp [265 kW] @ 5600 rpm 383 lb - ft of torque [518 Nm] @ 4100 rpm; more than 300 lb - ft of torque from 2000 to 5600 rpm)(Fuel capability capable of running on unleaded or up to 85 % ethanol (355 hp [265 kW] @ 5600 rpm 383 lb - ft of torque [518 Nm] @ 4100 rpm; more than 300 lb - ft of torque from 2000 to 5600 rpm)(STD)

Furthermore, the Brazilian subsidiary began producing flex - fuel versions for the Civic and the Fit models, capable of running on any blend of gasoline (E20 to E25 blend in Brazil) and ethanol up to E100.

In 1993, 1994 and 1995, a flexible - fuel Acclaim was offered, powered by a 107 hp (80 kW) multipoint fuel injected version of the 2.5 - liter engine specially modified to run on fuel containing up to 85 % ethanol.

This Chevrolet Tahoe features the following options: WHEELS, 4 - 20» X 8.5» (50.8 CM X 21.6 CM) POLISHED ALUMINUM, TRANSMISSION, 4 - SPEED AUTOMATIC, ELECTRONICALLY CONTROLLED with overdrive and tow / haul mode (STD), SUSPENSION PACKAGE, AUTORIDE, BI-STATE VARIABLE SHOCK DAMPENING AND REAR AIR - ASSISTED LOAD - LEVELING includes (G69) automatic air level control, SEATS, THIRD ROW 50/50 SPLIT - BENCH with 3 - passenger, removable, all - belts - to - seat (STD), SEATS, FRONT BUCKET with leather - appointed seating, 10 - way power driver and front passenger seat adjusters, including power lumbar control, heated seat cushion and seatbacks, 2 - position driver memory, adjustable head restraints, storage pockets and floor console (STD), REAR AXLE, 3.73 RATIO (STD), LUGGAGE RACK CENTER RAILS, LTZ PREFERRED EQUIPMENT GROUP Includes Standard Equipment, ENGINE, VORTEC 5.3 L V8 SFI FLEXFUEL WITH ACTIVE FUEL MANAGEMENT capable of running on unleaded or up to 85 % ethanol (320 hp [238.6 kW] @ 5200 rpm, 340 lb - ft of torque [459.0 N - m] @ 4200 rpm), iron block (STD), and EBONY, CUSTOM LEATHER - APPOINTED SEAT TRIM.

This Flex Fuel Vehicle is optomized to run on E85, a blend of 85 % ethanol fuel with 15 % gasolinFuel Vehicle is optomized to run on E85, a blend of 85 % ethanol fuel with 15 % gasolinfuel with 15 % gasoline...

The customized Corvette Z06 E85 Concept pace car runs on E85 ethanol, a domestically produced alternative fuel.

Legislation requires retailers to label fuels containing ethanol on the dispenser, and limits ethanol use to 10 % of gasoline in Australia.

Engine Vortec 5.3 L V8 Sfi Flexfuel With Active Fuel Management Capable Of Running On Unleaded Or Up To 85 % Ethanol (With Gas - 320 Hp [238.6 Kw] @ 5200 Rpm 340 Lb - Ft Of Torque [459.0N - M] @ 4200 Rpm With E85 Ethanol - 326 Hp [243.1 Kw] @ 5300 Rpm 350 Lb - Ft Of Torque [472.5 N - M] @ 4400 Rpm) Iron Block