Fuel Filtration Articles
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Cross Wrap solutions for efficient alternative fuel handling
Many industries are constantly moving towards more sustainable and environmentally friendly operations. Green energy, circular economy, and low carbon footprint are becoming household terms when companies are determining and updating their operations. For many businesses, these initiatives mean turning waste into energy or shifting energy sources towards alternative fuels. Waste-to-energy is one ...
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Ceramics 101: The QuantumScape Separator in Context
QuantumScape’s solid-state lithium-metal battery technology is enabled by our proprietary ceramic solid-electrolyte separator. While you may be familiar with everyday examples of ceramics, like a coffee mug, high-tech ceramics are likely less well-known. In this blog, we’ll review the basics of ceramics – what they are, how they’re made, how they’re used – and ...
By QuantumScape
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Rising fuel prices: solutions for the Field Service Industry
As global fuel prices rise, the cost of petrol and diesel in the UK continues to skyrocket. While rising fuel prices affect all sectors, these increases have an immediate effect on the Field Service industry. Businesses in the industry travel to clients daily, and as fuel prices soar, the pressure to pay fuel bills grows for business owners. While the fuel crisis is unpredictable, and there's no ...
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Diesel vs Electric
In recent years, I have had numerous conversations with customers considering going electric. Regardless if we are discussing concrete crushers or wood grinders, the answer is normally not cut and dry. Let’s start off with the obvious. For those of you who have 460v, 3 phase, 60 Hertz power at your site and all of your recycled material is trucked to you free of charge, the decision is ...
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Corner - Co-operative Food Store - AMP Clean Energy - Case Study
Heat Contract reduces energy bills and increases sale for Co-operative Food Store. The Co-operative food store in Caol, near Fort William, Scotland, has seen electricity and carbon emissions savings as well as an increase in sales, thanks to a complete biomass heating package. Scotland-based HWEnergy, which is part of AMP Clean Energy, was commissioned to install the Co-operative Food’s ...
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Alternative Fuels - A Look At the Current Environment
Overview Vehicles powered by gasoline and diesel account for emissions of dangerous air pollutants and contribute to the presence of greenhouse gases. Consumers, businesses, and public entities looking for environmentally friendly alternatives to gasoline and diesel-powered cars and trucks have viable choices beyond the well-known battery electric and plug-in hybrid electric variants. Other ...
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Advanced Diesel Engine Testing Center Developed at Minimum Costs - JCB Power Systems | Derby, UK - Case Study
Project Overview: Sierra CP designed and constructed ten new testing cells to meet the requirements for the development of high specification test cell project for low emissions diesel engines up to 300kW with fast transient measurement capability, engine block testing, and the latest equipment for cycle emissions measurement systems. To meet ongoing key large and small diesel engine development ...
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Fuel and Lubricant R&D - BP Technology Centre | Pangborne, UK - Case Study
Project Overview: Sierra CP was engaged as the principle contractor to design and implement a significant refurbishment of BP-Castrol Global Headquarters for fuel & lubricant R&D. The refurbishment required the construction of an exo-structure encompassing the existing test facility to accommodate the additional test facility plant and services required for the major upgrade. Essential ...
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2015 Engine Test Facility of the Year Intertek | Milton Keynes, UK Commissioned 2015 - Case Study
2015 Winner: Engine Test Facility of the Year presented by Automotive Testing Technology Magazine. Read more... Having won the prestigious 2015 Engine Test Facility of the Year award, the Intertek facility is now recognized as among the highest-specification, commercially available facilities in Europe and quite possibly the world. For its portion of the facility build, Sierra CP designed and ...
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ConVault Fuel Storage Solutions Vs. the Competition - Case Study
Safety, Compliance & Value Above Ground - Engineered for the Ultimate in Value Oldcastle Precast ConVault is the market leading concrete-encased UL 2085 petroleum fuel and lubricants storage solution in America, with over 30,000 tanks deployed. Exterior Shell made of precast concrete increases in strength over time Does Not Rust and is corrosion resistant providing a reliable fuel ...
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Demand for Charcoal Briquettes in Kenya
Demand for Charcoal Briquettes is from Different Fields in Kenya There are three main sources of energy in Kenya: wood fuel, petroleum and electricity accounting for 70 percent, 21 percent and 9 percent of total energy use respectively. But, the charcoal briquette made from the wastes such as sawdust, bagasse, coffee husks, coconut shell, wheat straws etc, has also become more and more important ...
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Today’s vulnerable diesel fuel
When the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) mandated a change to ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD) in 2007, it caused some significant problems for fleets. The majority of fleet managers are not aware of these problems. From fuel microbes to water contamination, here are the problems and how to prevent (or solve) them. 1. Lack of Lubrication Prior to the introduction of ULSD, diesel fuel ...
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Taking matters into hand - Case Study
Biofuels must be up to scratch as contaminated or improperly blended fuel can damage a company’s bottom line. To ensure product quality several options exist including laboratory analysis, field test kits and portable lab instruments. Laboratory testing would be the ideal solution if everyone had the budget and the time to wait for the results. But in a market where time is money, quick ...
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Advanced Diesel Engine Testing Center - JCB Power Systems - Derby, UK - Case Study
Project Overview: Sierra CP designed and constructed ten new test cells to meet the requirements for the development of high specification test cell project for low emissions diesel engines up to 300kW with fast transient measurement capability and the latest cycle emissions measurement systems. To meet ongoing key engine development and testing milestones during the 24-month construction ...
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Nuclear Waste Incineration (France) - Case Study
Nuclear waste incineration trials 1996 Glosfume successfully provided a pilot filter to carry out various trials on nuclear waste incineration. The filter was designed to operate under vacuum and passed all of the stringent requirements of French Nuclear Fuels. Similar filters have subsequently been used on several sites throughout France, contributing to reduced waste disposal costs and ...
By Glosfume
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Ethanol Mandates under RFS and EPA’s Lifecycle GHG Analysis
In a settlement with the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) and the American Petroleum Institute (API), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) agreed to set renewable fuel obligations for calendar years 2014 and 2015 by November 30, 2015, under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). The RFS requires annual increases in the amount of renewable fuel that must be blended into ...
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Energy support measures and their impact on innovation in the renewable energy sector in Europe
Governments support energy production and consumption in order to meet social, economic and environmental objectives, and they have been doing so for decades. In times of economic crisis, public budgets and household incomes come under pressure. At the same time, countries need to kick‑start their economies by creating new employment opportunities in emerging industries such as the ...
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The Other Side of Zirconium Oxide case study
Regular Fuel Efficiency Applications Separate Oxygen and Combustibles Sensors In standard flue gas applications for Thermox analyzers, the user generally tries to extract the maximum energy from the fuel and transfers as much of that energy as possible to the process. These applications require the process to be operated as efficiently as possible by keeping both oxygen (excess air) and ...
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Impact of frequency–based tariff in power market
System frequency can be a useful signal in real–time power system operation to promote competition along with operational reliability. The commercial mechanism adopted in India, the availability–based tariff (ABT), defines a power tariff structure that allows recovery of capital cost and fuel cost as well as a condition–based price incentive to participants which help to minimise the real power ...
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Value stream mapping based on energy and cost system for biodiesel production
Organisations have to give more attention to customer demands for survival and also for increasing their market shares. But customers' demands are not stable. The main problem of all organisations is how to cut costs during production process. The solution to this problem is built up with lean–based production systems. Value stream mapping identifies those areas where unwanted productivity is ...
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