Sentences with word «unburned»

One finally admits, however, that «looking at (emissions standards requiring) 0.04 grams / mile of unburned fuel in a ported engine is difficult.»

This produces a bolus of unburned fuel in the exhaust stream.

They do not have catalytic converters and their emissions of unburned hydrocarbons, oxides of nitrogen, particulate matter, and carbon monoxide are quite high.

With that said, however, if one of your cylinders is not receiving a spark, that will send a whole bunch of unburned gasses to the cat and it will get mighty hot.

I fear your editorial has cost humanity a few years before we acknowledge that we must leave unburned carbon in the ground.

A study by HSBC, a large British bank, found an immense threat to global financial stability from stranding unburned fossil fuels.

Furthermore, he says, most people pack on pounds gradually, because their day - to - day consumption of unburned calories is relatively small.

All of the star's matter — namely, the products of the nuclear burning (iron, nickel, silicon, magnesium, and other heavy elements) plus unburned carbon and oxygen — are ejected into space at speeds ranging from about 6,000 to 8,000 miles / second (20 to 30 million miles / hour).

Police in Warren, Michigan, reported today the theft of the last remaining unburned rendering of the 1982 Cadillac Cimarron premium - mountebank sedan, along with the discovery of a ransom note threatening its release into the atmosphere.

Since calories that go unburned will only turn to fat, you may need to get your sedentary cat moving if you wish to keep him from getting heavy.

The narrower valve angle decreases the surface - to - volume ratio and helps create a flatter, more compact combustion chamber that reduces unburned hydrocarbon emissions.

But when unburned methane is released into the atmosphere, it is a potent greenhouse gas with a warming potential 28 to 34 times greater than carbon dioxide over a 100 - year timeframe (and up to 84 times more potent over a 20 year timeframe).

The climate downside to this trend is methane «slip» — emissions of unburned methane, a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2 (per pound), a problem that marine engine manufacturers are beginning to tackle.

It then races across the floor and mixes with unburned gases, causing them to ignite.

Something to keep in mind regarding diesel dragsters is that they do not use any emissions equipment to more effectively burn unburned fuel and oil contained in diesel fuel which is essentially kerosene.

In a catalytic converter platinum is the catalyst that converts unburned hydrocarbons into H2O and CO2.

Tuning it richer doesn't give me extra power at the moment, and it smells like unburned fuel too bad for my liking already.

Spark plugs that don't fire or misfire cause unburned fuel to enter the exhaust system.

Any fuel that leaves the combustion chamber unburned will enter the exhaust system and light - off when it reaches the catalytic converter.

The combined processes of unburned leakage and incomplete combustion of LPG play a significant role in causing the excessive ozone characteristic of Mexico City.

If your Golf is new enough to have a catalyst (many VW diesels are), then unburned fuel in the exhaust will quickly damage it, so you want to fix this.

When fully burned, gas releases less CO2 than coal or oil, but currently huge amounts of methane are escaping unburned into the atmosphere.

If there is too much unburned hydrocarbons going into the catalytic converter, it greatly increases the temperature inside the...

Orange shows active fires, light brown shows burn scar, and blue - gray shows unburned plants and structures.

Really was looking forward to an authentic unburned meal as the maiden recipe on my new crockpot.

I would add a small piece of unburned wood once in a while for flavor.

Developed areas appear as gray, while unburned vegetation appears green.

The researchers got similar results when they compared burned and unburned Konza Prairie watersheds where bison had been reintroduced in 1987.

Saab's combustion - control engine has leapfrogged the manufacturers still studying fuel cells, methanol fuels, and electrics by reinventing an ordinary internal - combustion gasoline power plant that recycles unburned components of its exhaust.

As a fire in an enclosed space progresses, Custer explains, smoke filled with unburned particles and combustible gases accumulates near the ceiling.

Pale green, it towered over a phalanx of unburned conifers.

«The last seminar, given at a gorgeous house left unburned near Riken, was dedicated to [electron] shower theories....

The US Environmental Protection Agency had pointed out that a spark plug failure could allow unburned fuel to enter the car's exhaust system, where it would encounter a hot catalytic converter.

«TSNAs are among the most broadly acting and potent carcinogens present in unburned tobacco and tobacco smoke.»

They can pass unburned right out of a body.I don't need anybody to tell me what does or doesn't work at this point.

Your body uses unburned carbs and attempts to store as much as possible as body fat.

There are plenty of pretty options to keep my noggin unburned in the catalogue.

Misfires will let unburned fuel into the cat which ruins it, right?

Some cursory reading seems to indicate that hydrocarbons are basically unburned fuel.

Smoke coming from a diesel engine is partially unburned fuel, and the new engines run so efficiently they make sure there's no waste.

The catalyst sees much more unburned fuel than it can handle.

It results in less unburned fuel during cold start, thereby reducing emissions.

By keeping an intake valve open during part of the compression stroke, some of the volume of unburned air / fuel mixture in the cylinder moves back inside the intake manifold and lowers the volume being compressed, or «pumped.»

Retarding the spark or cutting the throttle dumps unburned hydrocarbons into the exhaust; too much of it will overheat the catalytic converter, a filter attached to the exhaust system that reduces air pollution.

In the 1980s, your Excel was carbureted, dumping imprecise volumes of fuel into the combustion chambers, and emitting unburned fuel as a matter of course.

As oil lubricates your engine's parts, it can accumulate a variety of impurities including unburned fuel, which will degrade the performance of your engine and reduce the efficiency over time, especially miles per gallon.

Many of these small internal combustion engines used for yardwork can release as much as 30 % of the fuel / oil mixture as unburned pollutants into the atmosphere due to incomplete combustion, which not only wastes fuel and money, but also contributes to air pollution.

Note in many (not all) of the pictures, green vegetation and unburned homes are quite near some of the burned homes.

For Perpetual error, Nuclear waste is 98 % unburned nuclear fuel.