Sentences with phrase «using conventional diesel fuel»

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It is 97 - percent cleaner than the conventional diesel fuel that is used in agricultural, hunting, and construction equipment (15 parts per million compared to 500 ppm).

The company has pledged to buy palm oil certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil and to use proprietary NExBTL technology that produces fuel with lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions 40 to 60 percent less than those of conventional diesel fuel.

Also known as «shale oil,» tight oil is processed into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels — just like conventional oil — but is extracted using hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking.»

Cooking oil, palm oil biodiesel can reduce emissions relative to diesel (11/28/2007) A lifecycle analysis of biodiesel by Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) shows that using palm oil derived from existing plantations can be an effective biofuel feedstock for reducing greenhouse gas emissions relative to conventional diesel fuel.

«Our study suggests that farmers in Europe who are growing rapeseed for biodiesel might combat global warming in a more effective way, namely by converting those fields into forests and using conventional diesel for fuel,» Johnson told mongabay.com.

A reduction in fuel use and may reduce up to 25 percent of greenhouse gas emissions compared to conventional diesel fuel models.

Unlike conventional vehicles that use a gasoline or diesel - powered engine, electric cars and trucks use an electric motor powered by electricity from batteries or a fuel cell.

All of today's diesel vehicles can use up to 5 percent biodiesel («B5»), which is blended into conventional diesel under the specifications governing diesel fuel (ASTM specifications).

Drop - in renewable diesel or bio-jet are essentially indistinguishable from conventional diesel and jet fuel and can be blended at almost any level, making it an attractive option for military or airline use.

Not biodiesel, conventional diesel fuel: The plant will have a capacity of more than 10,000 gallons per year and will, using synthetic biology, reengineer microbes so that yeast can ferment sugar to produce hydrocarbons instead of ethanol.

The use of biodiesel in a conventional diesel engine results in substantial reduction of unburned hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, and particulate matter compared to emissions from diesel fuel.

While natural gas has a slight environmental benefit relative to the use of conventional liquid fuels, such as gasoline and diesel, the environmental performance of natural gas can be greatly improved by procurement from renewable sources.