alternative fuel Articles
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Ohio cuts alternative fuel mandate in transportation budget
On April 1, 2015, the Governor of Ohio, John Kasich (R), signed the 2016-2017 Transportation Budget Bill (Sub. H.B. 53). The state transportation budget does not include a requirement on alternative fuel use in the state vehicle fleet, a requirement that had been in place since 2006. Ohio Department of Transportation's Matt Bruning stated that the requirement mandated the state increase the ...
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Sustainable energy: the importance of consumer awareness, acceptance, and action
The debate about peak oil has been raging for the last 40 years, yet, the fact remains that oil is not a sustainable resource and will eventually run out. It is unclear whether the consumer has accepted this fact. In the meantime, preparation is needed to find truly 'alternative' fuels; however, such new technology requires consumer acceptance and support, not only to create the technology, but ...
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Additional language introduced to be attached to the alternative fuel tax credit
On March 26, 2015, Representative Todd Young (R-IN) introduced H.R. 1665, the Alternative Fuel Tax Parity Act, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to equalize the excise tax on liquefied natural gas (LNG) and liquefied petroleum gas (propane). This legislation would attach federal tax parities for LNG and propane to the Alternative Fuel Tax Credit (AFTC) that currently covers alternative ...
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Governance of the emerging biofuel markets in European Union: the Portuguese context
European Union supports alternative fuels, in particular, biofuels to comply with the triple objective of reducing greenhouse gases emissions, diversifying fuel supply and developing long-term replacements for fossil fuels. The European Community set the goal to substitute 20% of the fossil fuels for road transport with alternative fuels by 2020 but the present market penetration of the biofuels ...
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Evaluating advanced automotive energy technologies: a multivariate mobility contribution metric
Mobility technology is beginning to shift from gasoline-fuelled, internal combustion engines to a variety of alternate fuels and powertrains, including hybrid and fuel cell vehicles. The benefits and/or limitations of many of these technologies are not well characterised by a simple fuel economy metric: mobility is a complex system requiring a multivariate systems measure, especially ...
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Alternative Fuel from Waste
Alternative Fuel From Waste Municipal waste has always been seen by the public as the foul-smelling waste that nobody wants near home. In the last decades due to the cost increasing of raw materials for heating and electric energy production, it has begun to evaluate and use waste as an “alternative” energy source. But we should not forget that the greatest resource in the waste ...
By SA Eng.
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Strategies for utilizing alternative fuels by Iranian passenger cars
Abstract: The current paper is an attempt to find a sustainable fuel strategy for passenger cars in Iran. Currently, most of Iran’s passenger cars consume gasoline, a non-renewable fossil fuel. This fuel has well-known environmental impacts, including various kinds of pollutions, as well as the threat of quick running out. These general negative characteristics of gasoline are amplified by the ...
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Practical guide to alternative fuel utilisation
Today’s business environment for the cement producers is becoming more challenging. Rising production costs and environmental regulations are only two of the main limiting factors. Therefore the cement industry is using alternative fuels. In most cement kiln processes today, the conventional fuels (primary fuels) are gas, fuel oil, various coals and petcoke. The required calorific values can be ...
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Comparative performance of spark ignition engine using blends of various methanol percentages with low octane number gasoline
This study investigates the effect of methanol addition to low octane number gasoline, in terms of calorific value, octane number, compression ratio at knocking and engine performance. Locally produced gasoline (octane number = 87) was blended with five different percentages of methanol, namely 5%, 10%, 15%, 20% and 25% on volume basis. The properties of the respective fuel blends were first ...
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Methanol blending is alternative fuel of the future
The main objective of “alcohol fuel power” field is increase of fuel resources for transport by using right alternative such as ethanol and methanol blending with gasoline, which unlike pure oil fuel, are characterized renewable and have unlimited sources of raw materials. Margin of oil (valuable hydrocarbonic raw materials for petrochemical productions) and also a power source, in ...
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Reducing CO2 in the transport sector in Japan
In this paper, we have investigated the cost-effectiveness of alternative fuel vehicles as a measure for CO2 reduction. Computed results indicate that the installation of alternative fuel vehicles is much more expensive than fuel switching in industry or the power generation sector. However, some economic incentives will make the price go down to the level at which alternative fuel vehicles are ...
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Effect of the radiation heat loss on propagation of the spherical flame through premixed coal dust
An analytical study has been conducted to investigate the effect of radiation heat loss on the spherical flame propagation in coal–dust clouds. This research can be valuable in the development of alternative fuels; and it can be used by the fire safety and control industry. The model includes the evaporation of the volatile matter of dust particles into a known gaseous fuel (methane) and the ...
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Peak oil and energy security: can alternative fuels and vehicles save us?
Peak oil can be defined as the point in time when global oil production reaches its maximum annual rate, after which the annual production rate generally declines. Against an expected profile of growing demand for oil-based transport fuels, when peak oil occurs, it could create a growing transport fuel supply gap which, if not filled, would be expected to lead to very high prices for petroleum ...
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[Video] Road Transport 2020: Truck Manufacturers Talk Industry Future
At the recent Microlise Transport Conference, we invited senior executives from the truck manufacturers to talk part in “Road Transport 2020”, a panel discussion run in association with Motor Transport (the media sponsor for the event) looking at the future of road transport. Co-hosted by Conference Chair Quentin Willson and Road Transport Media Managing Editor Chris Walton, a wide ...
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`Accepting the Resource Conservation Challenge: Clearing Permitting Barriers for Acceptance of Alternative Fuels,` presented at the 2007 A&WMA Hazardous Waste Combustors conference
Abstract With the surge in fuel prices in the past two years, industry has initiated efforts to utilize various alternative fuels that may have historically been overlooked. Material with energy value such as scrap tires, waste plastics, tallow, bone meal, bulk solids, auto fluff, wood waste, etc. are now being sought out for use as lower cost alternative fuels. Once an alternative fuel source is ...
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Cost Reduction Battle! Another Cement Factory SRF Alternative Fuel Processing Center Has Been Put Into Operation!
In 2023, there are many projects for SRF alternative fuel processing of cement factories. The reason is that as the cement industry market continues to decline, cement companies have launched a "price reduction promotion" war. How to improve the comprehensive competitiveness of products and open source? How to save production costs and reduce expenditures? It has become the key to the ...
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The effects of biodiesel usage on the components of an engine
In this paper, the research results obtained on the influences of biodiesel on the components of an engine are presented. The study was carried out at the Dumlupinar University in Turkey. Biodiesel has been an alternative fuel for diesel engines since 1900s. However, the use of biodiesel has recently been increasing owing to indelible increase in petroleum price and consumption. Furthermore, the ...
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Environmental impact of using biodiesel as fuel in transportation: a review
The environmental pollution and global warming associated with the use of fossil fuels, has forced a search for alternative fuels in transportation. This paper presents a review of the use of biodiesel in CI engines and its environmental impacts. There is a significant reduction in the emission of unburned hydrocarbons, polyaromatic hydrocarbons and soot, particulate matters, carbon monoxide, ...
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New Regulations for Biomass and Other Alternatative Fuels
EPA completed new rules that changed the way they look at "nontraditional" fuels. Using these alternative fuels to generate energy makes a facility subject to emission limits and rules regulation boilers. In December U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) completed new rules that changed the way they look at'nontraditional" fuels. Materials that can meet the newly revised standards are ...
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Alternative fuels and managing a diverse fuel portfolio
Alternative fuels are becoming more prevalent in the marketplace at large and particularly within the waste industry. For example, Waste Management recently added its lOOOth natural gas fueled truck to its fleet this past summer. The alternative fuels that are going to work best for your fleet will take some investigation and research, but the prevailing data indicates that these solutions will ...
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