Fuel Analysis News
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Major Growth of Clean Energy Limited the Rise in Global Emissions in 2023
Global energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions rose less strongly in 2023 than the year before even as total energy demand growth accelerated, new IEA analysis shows, with continued expansion of solar PV, wind, nuclear power and electric cars helping the world avoid greater use of fossil fuels. Without clean energy technologies, the global increase in CO2 emissions in the last five years ...
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Ember Study: Half of the World is Past a Peak in Fossil Power
Half of the world’s economies are already five years past a peak in power generation from fossil fuels, new analysis from energy think tank Ember shows. Emissions from these 107 power sectors, representing 38% of global electricity demand, have fallen by almost 20% in the last decade. The vast majority (78) of these economies have displaced fossil fuels from their power sectors through clean ...
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National Grid's Renewable Energy RFI Validates a Fossil-Free Energy Strategy for the Northeast
National Grid has located robust stocks of renewable natural gas (RNG) and hydrogen potentially available for its customers in Massachusetts and New York through the company's first-of-its kind Northeast clean energy request for information (RFI) issued in May. Procurement of RNG and hydrogen are essential to National Grid's plan to deliver a 100% fossil-free gas network for customers who do not ...
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Alfa Chemistry Releases Petrochemical Standards for Fuels and Hydrocarbons Testing
Petrochemical products are an integral part of modern societies. To help researchers assess the quality of these commodities, Alfa Chemistry, one of the most popular suppliers of analytical reagents, recently announced the release of a new line of petrochemical standards, which can be used to analyze and test petroleum, gasoline, fuels, hydrocarbons and many other types of petrochemical-relevant ...
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Doosan Fuel Cell Teams with Shell and KSOE for Maritime Fuel Cell Development and Demonstration
It aims to commercialize maritime fuel cells in 2025, thereby proactively responding to action on cutting greenhouse gas emissions from shipping. The consortium will accommodate ship owners and maritime classification societies. Doosan Fuel Cell rolls its sleeves to develop and demonstrate green marine fuel cells, teaming up with Shell, a global energy company. Doosan Fuel Cell unveiled ...
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Carbon Engineering and LanzaTech partner to advance jet fuel made from air
Biotechnology company LanzaTech UK, and cleantech company Carbon Engineering (CE), have partnered on a first-of-a-kind project to create sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) out of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). Project AtmosFUEL will investigate the feasibility of a large-scale, commercial air-to-jet facility in the UK that will produce more than 100 million litres of SAF each year. The proposed ...
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Best practice: Screening and QC testing of petroleum products and fuels
Screening and quality control of petroleum products and fuels can be a tedious and expensive process when performed with traditional methods. A faster and more efficient approach utilizing Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) is presented in a free webinar by Metrohm in association with Digital Refining on June 16, 2021. Participants will get an overview what NIRS is, how to implement this ...
By Metrohm AG
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New Dates Added: Combustion and Optimisation in Glass Melting Furnaces Online Training
Course 1 - Basics of Combustion and Under-Port Burners in Glass Melting Furnaces 1st & 8th February 2021 - Virtual This half day training online training course will be held on Monday 1st February 8.30-12.30GMT and will be repeated Monday 8th February 13.00-17.00 GMT. The primary audience is furnace operators, supervisors and supporting staff in Environmental, Maintenance, Engineers and ...
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Luke Oil May Invest $45 Billion In Iraq By 2035
According to Neftegaz. RU in Baghdad, Luke Oil may invest $45 billion in Iraq's oil projects by 2035. Luke Petroleum has invested about $8 billion in this area, which will reach about $45 billion by 2035, according to the agreement. In the Middle East, Iraq has become the centre of Luke Oil's strategic policy of increasing overseas production. Because of the huge reserves of traditional oil and ...
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New 2020 Training Events Available - Glass Furnace Combustion and Optimisation
Course 1 - Basics of Combustion in Glass Melting Furnaces and Troubleshooting 13th February 2020 - AMETEK Land (20 Changi Business Park Central 2, #04-03/04, Singapore 486031), Singapore. This one-day training course is aimed at batch and furnace departments and associated personnel. The primary audience is furnace operators, supervisors and supporting staff in environmental, maintenance, ...
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Tidy Planet Energy attending RWM 2019
The annual RWM expo is almost here and we’re looking forward to meeting businesses who are searching for innovative solutions to harness the resource potential of their troublesome waste streams. The event opens its doors 11-12th September and will see over 500 exhibitors and 22,000 visitors attend. And we’re one of the exhibitors who will be there for the two-day expo and conference ...
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UK Waste-to-Energy specialist opens door to cutting-edge energy-optimisation tech
Macclesfield-based Tidy Planet is bringing the latest Waste-to-Energy boiler technology – the Artificial Vision System (AVS) – to the UK business landscape.The news of food waste expert Tidy Planet’s partnership with Valencian-headquartered Sugimat – being the sole distributor of their industry-leading boilers – was announced earlier in the year. And the next chapter of this relationship is now ...
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IR METHOD FOR CONTROL OF FATTY ACID METHYL ESTER CONTENT IN THE LABORATORY OF FUEL STORAGE IN OMAN
Lumex Instruments solution provides reliable control of FAME content starting from the lowest concentration level of 0.05 % (V/V). A simple and convenient module of quantitative analysis integrated into the software SpectraLUM allows getting the result of FAME content immediately in percentage by volume and without additional operations. Mina Petroleum controls FAME content several times a month, ...
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MEPC.278(70) - Who’s Monitoring Your Fuel Tanks?
IMO resolution MEPC.278(70) came into force on March 1, 2018. This resolution mandates the collection of annual fuel usage for vessels of 5,000 GT and above. Submitted to the Flag Administration or their nominated party, this data will then be further aggregated by the IMO for use in developing a strategy to enhance fuel efficiency and address greenhouse gas emissions in shipping. This new ...
By Jowa AB
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New CRMs for the testing of diesel/biodiesel mixtures (B7) released
The JRC released two new Certified Reference Materials (CRMs) for automotive diesel fuel containing 7 % biodiesel, so-called 'diesel (B7)'. These CRMs will support fuel producers and fuel testing laboratories in assuring the quality of their measurements, thus improving trust in the regulatory compliance of this product on the market. In recent years quality requirements of automotive diesel fuel ...
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ISO New England Issues Power System Plan for New England
ISO New England Inc., the operator of the New England power system and wholesale electricity markets, issued its 2017 Regional System Plan (RSP17), the biennial report that provides the foundation for long-term power-system planning in New England. RSP17 was approved by the ISO New England board of directors today. The comprehensive report details power system needs for the next 10 years, ...
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MINISCAN IR VISION Top Performer in Portable Fuel Analysis
AMETEK Grabner Instruments Releases a new high-speed, compact, FTIR fuel analyzer for automatic and comprehensive measurement of gasoline, and jet and diesel fuels. Built on Grabner´s new Vision instrument platform, the MINISCAN IR Vision increases analysis speed by a factor of ten when compared to previous models. The MINISCAN IR Vision builds on Grabner’s more than 20 years of ...
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Calciner firing of refuse derived fuels
Alternative or refuse derived fuels (RDF) are mainly fired in kiln burners, preheater or calciner kilns. Of the greatest importance in this regard is homogenous fuel quality consisting of two-dimensional parts. Alternative fuel for the kiln burner has to be free of disruptive fractions (e.g. metals, stones, glass), which might cause problems in the feeding equipment or the burner itself. ...
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Production of Ethanol-Based Blended Fuel
The number of motor vehicles in the world is constantly growing, along with the consumption of fuel. This causes the growing harmful emissions. One of the ways to tackle this problem is to replace the traditional fossil fuel with gasoline containing various additives. Using ethanol to produce fuel increases octane number and reduces the amount of harmful emissions by 30-50%. Regular refined ...
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Microlise Data to Help Energy Technologies Institute Understand Real World Truck Efficiency
Anonymised Microlise fuel performance data, forming part of the 7 billion miles tracked in the UK over the last year, is to be used in a new £100k eight month research project commissioned by the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI). The project is being delivered by Element Energy, a Cambridge-based energy consultancy, which will carry out data analysis to understand driving patterns and ...
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