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Partnerships Drive Biofuels and Other Alternative Fuels to Scale
Bringing new alternative fuel technologies like biofuels to scale poses technical, financial, and market hurdles that few companies – large or small – can tackle alone. Not surprisingly, the industry has already seen a wave of strategic partnerships form to navigate these challenges. The breakaway success stories yet to be written will be based on ...
By Lux Research
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Intelligent and Portable Fuel Analysis
Grabner Instruments, a subsidiary of AMETEK, Inc. has introduced a new portable and highly versatile FTIR spectrometer for the fully automatic measurement of gasoline, diesel and biofuel blends. The MINISCAN IRXpert is the first completely portable fuel analyzer that combines superior scanning range and resolution with the advantages of mid-IR and near-IR spectroscopy for highest measurement ...
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A hydrogen future: clean and cool?
A new study suggests that widespread adoption of hydrogen fuel could have major benefits for tackling climate change and air pollution. The researchers modelled the impacts of replacing petrol with hydrogen as a fuel for cars and claim their methods, which employ a new modelling tool, could be useful in planning and policymaking. Hydrogen is widely touted as the clean fuel of the future. One of ...
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Gasoline hybrid electric delivery vehicles reduce tailpipe emissions while maintaining fuel economy
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently completed a yearlong technology evaluation of gasoline hybrid electric (gHEV) trucks compared with conventional diesel vehicles. A report released this week PDFdetails NREL’s efforts to determine the impact of hybridization on performance, emissions, and fuel economy. The gHEV trucks produced ...
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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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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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New Global Winners in Alternative Fuels Emerge As Capacity Grows to 54.1 Billion Gallons in 2015
Capacity for alternative fuels such as ethanol, biodiesel, and renewable diesel is at 44.6 billion gallons a year in 2011, but systemic hurdles will constrain their growth to under 5% annually through 2015. But pockets of promising growth still exist as variations in local policy, demand, and feedstock availability mean that new nations will arise as global ...
By Lux Research
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NREL shows heavy duty hybrid trucks deliver on fuel economy
A performance evaluation of Class 8 hybrid electric tractor trailers compared with similar conventional vehicles by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) shows significant improvements in fuel economy. “During our 13-month study, the hybrid tractors demonstrated 13.7 percent higher fuel economy than the conventional tractors, resulting in ...
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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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D7094 Flashpoint Method Accepted For ASTM D7467 Biodiesel Blend Specifications
AMETEK Grabner Instruments’ ASTM D7094 flashpoint method made history in 2013, when ASTM members accepted the method for ASTM Diesel Fuel and Kerosene specifications. Recently, ASTM members expressed their confidence again in the method and voted to include the flashpoint method in ASTM D7467 Biodiesel (B6 to B20) specifications. A inter-laboratory study in 2013 using AMETEK Grabner ...
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Flash point determination of Asphalt, Tar and Bitumen by use of Grabner miniflash
Measuring flashpoint of asphalt, bitumen or tar is a most challenging test. Industrial coal tar pitch for example is solid at ambient temperature, softens around 100-130°C and becomes fully liquid at 180°C. When cooled down the tar sample becomes rock solid in seconds, making it difficult to clean flashpoint testing equipment and to continue with the measurements. The MINIFLASH flashpoint tester ...
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Biomass Combustion Research
The use of alternative combustion fuels that provide a renewable source of energy is a major area of research and investment. Sources of biomass fuels include virgin wood, energy crops, agricultural residues, food waste and industrial waste. Controlling the combustion process of any new fuel and keeping track of the biomass fuel emissions of combustion by-products is important to users of these ...
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The international launch of World Energy Outlook 2012 Press Conference
Industry and government decision-makers and others with a stake in the energy sector all need WEO-2012. It presents authoritative projections of energy trends through to 2035 and insights into what they mean for energy security, environmental sustainability and economic development. Oil, coal, natural gas, renewables and nuclear power are all covered, together with an update on climate change ...
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New research reveals origin of Asia’s `brown cloud`
Researchers have discovered that a sooty cloud of pollution that hangs over South Asia between January and March every year is created by a combination of the burning of both fossil fuels and biomass. The discovery, which used the first-ever microscale measurements of natural C-14 (a carbon dating method), gives the green light for action to be undertaken to reduce the cloud’s insidious effects, ...
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Fuel produced from sunlight, CO2 and water: an alternative for jet fuel?
Water and carbon dioxide (CO2) can be converted into ‘solar thermochemical fuel’ using energy from the sun and very high temperatures. A new study has analysed the production of this fuel and found that, under favourable future conditions, costs could be as little as €1.28 per litre, with close to zero life-cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Although suitable as a substitute ...
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