Sentences with phrase «use of diesel fuel»

The biggest issue is the use of diesel fuel to power locomotives.

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.

On the exhaust side, many trucks and tractors use some of the diesel fuel to convert NOx back into nitrogen gas.

France wants to gradually phase out the use of diesel fuel for private passenger transport and will put in place a system to identify the most polluting vehicles

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.

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.

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.

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.

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».

«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.

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.

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.

«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.

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

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.

Continuing widespread use of coal and low - grade diesel fuel, which also produce fine particles of soot, leaves China's record as the world's largest single source of man - made greenhouse gas emissions unchallenged.

With methane released at that rate, the drawbacks of its use may outweigh its global warming benefits compared with other transportation fuels, such as gasoline or diesel.

In addition, one of the emergency diesel units can now be operated and will be used to supply unit 5 and 6 alternately to inject water to their used fuel pools.

Because lipids from Y. lipolytica have chemical properties similar to those of diesel fuel, they can be readily used as biodiesel using current vehicles and existing infrastructure at gas stations.

Although engines now emit less diesel exhaust, thanks to mechanical improvements and the use of cleaner - burning fuel, diesel exhaust is still dangerously widespread.

The available turbo - diesel engine does a great job moving the relatively large vehicle without using too much fuel and the interior is as nice as any Benz this side of an S - class.

The winners, which include three diesels, an EV, eight engines using direct fuel injection and six with forced induction, emerged from a field of 44 powertrains evaluated by WardsAuto editors in October and November.

Depending on driving conditions, these buses can use the same amount of fuel as a diesel bus and travel for multiple more routes.

While using a small diesel engine to achieve such excellent fuel economy numbers could work, it wouldn't work in terms of pricing.

Drag racing is world apart from production consumer cars, drag diesel engines run advanced injector timing and lots of fuel delivery, since diesels to not control power using an intake throttle plate like gasoline engines, they use the amount of fuel injected to control power delivered, lots of fuel lots of power.

The big V6 never leaves you in any doubt that it's using compression rather than sparks to ignite its fuel mix, but the noise it produces is a muscular multi-cylinder hum rather than the sort of industrial sounds you'd more typically associate with a diesel.

Running a couple tanks of different gas won't do any harm (as long as it's within the manufacturer's spec - don't use something like diesel or jet fuel!!!)

While high mileage drivers are likely to stick with diesel power, they shouldn't automatically assume that the petrol V40 models are profligate in their use of fuel.

My colleagues have already discussed the merits of the 3.0 - liter turbo - diesel V - 6, but it's worth noting I put nearly 329 miles over the course of three days, and I only used roughly half a tank (i.e. 13 gallons) of fuel.

The next generation of common rail diesels is expected to use variable injection geometry, which allows the amount of fuel injected to be varied over a wider range, and variable valve timing (see Mitsubishi's 4N13 diesel engine) similar to that of petrol engines.

This model uses a 1.6 - litre diesel engine producing 110 PS, has a six - speed manual gearbox, and is expected to achieve a combined fuel consumption of just 85.6 mpg (equivalent to 87 g / km of CO2).

Ingenium diesel6: Low fuel consumption, high torque Available later in 2016, the clean, responsive, Ingenium diesel uses state - of - the - art technologies including selective catalytic reduction (SCR) and low - pressure exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) to cut NOx and CO2 emissions.

The diesel versions of the Drive - E engines also pioneer a brand - new Denso fuel injection system, which uses intelligent fuel injectors which measure the actual fuel pressure.

This entry - level diesel comes in front - wheel - drive configuration and returns fuel mileage of approximately 45 mpg — though Audi has not stated whether this is during mixed use, or only the highway mileage figure.

Unlike the other gasoline models, the Cruze's 2.0 diesel is only available with an automatic transmission, and is the only engine that features direct fuel injection — a modern engine innovation that promotes more efficient combustion and increases power relative to the volume of fuel used.

Although the diesel can't quite match the smoothness of equivalents used by the competition, it does offer plenty of power coupled with reasonable fuel economy.

Other options include the more powerful (yet still reasonably economical) BMW 740d diesel, as well as the BMW 740Li, BMW 750i and BMW M760Li petrols — although these are rare choices due to their higher fuel consumption and tax obligations; the 6.6 - litre M760Li, for example, returns just 22mpg — but in fairness, the rest of the petrol engines use roughly half as much fuel as that.