Low-carbon fuel standard

the necessities of human life. But an action always causes a reaction. The many inventions and innovations in the industrial category have been polluting the air with carbon dioxide causing a significant increase of climate change. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has developed a plan called the Clean Power Plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and make a dent in the increasing climate change ("Clean Power Plan"). This plan has been put into thought of many people and some of those…

discounts. Changes in car design and features: middle end cars are being outfitted with telematic features such as parallel parking, lane keeping assistance, sensors with information about car maintenance.6 Share Car manufacturers continue to improve fuel efficiency, a demand of consumers and government, by using advanced technologies, such as downsizing, turbocharghing, variable compression ratio capability and lean-burn engine…

concentration (%) Rate of mixing (RPM) Reaction temperature (0C) Reaction duration (hours) conditions 9:1 0.9 500 65 2.5 3.2. Fuel properties of castor biodiesel –diesel blends The fuel properties or the test blends CB30, CB40 and CB50 were evaluated; and are shown in Table 2. It was observed that the fuel properties of test blends were found to be close to the permissible limit. Table 2: Fuel properties of castor biodiesel blends at optimum conditions Properties Limits Diesel CB30 CB40 CB50…

sewage solids, or sludge, were significant sources of bacteria to the harbor, documented as far back as the 1930s." (The State of Boston Harbor: Mapping the Harbor's Recovery, 8) Now, the water quality is being measured by the MWRA to meet the health standards of making the water 1b.)With the respect of my parameter, bacteria pollution, I could attend the Boston Harbor Cleanup events to further increase the quality of water. Another thing that could help increase the quality of water is to…

over 135,000 full and part time employees in the United States alone, and around 200,000 employees worldwide. A corporation that is efficient in operations, has unmatched savings and is accessible through membership has a vision to give the customer a low efficient discount price and still continue to financially make a profit. The CEO of Costco, Jim Sinegal, had taken a pay cut when he was there in 2011. Their actions to be socially responsible in all areas are by excellent treatment to…

The most environmental friendly solution to this issue as technology continues to combat these issues is to experiment with new water-free or water-reducing processes such as RocketFrac, a Canadian company that is testing rocket fuel in wells to eliminate water and use hydrocarbons to extract hydrocarbons. In May 2017 RocketFrac hired a former NASA Senior Executive to be their new CFO after raising $3.1 million dollars to begin testing their theories. Although Canadian based GasFrac…

oxide (NOx), hydrocarbons (HC), carbon monoxide (CO), and particulate matter (PM) (Gray, 2015). Water pollution can be caused by run offs from construction…

Below, one representative graph and a set of sample calculations are included which will show how the values for the enthalpy of combustion of the fuel sources are deduced. Graph 1: Scatter plot showing the change in the temperature of 80.0mL of distilled water in the tin calorimeter during and after the combustion of the kerosene for the first conducted trial. The linear trendline was created for the last three data points, where the water was allowed to cool, which was then extrapolated…

Annotated Bibliography This study focused on the methods of improving a turbocharger’s efficiency at low engine RPMs through the use of steam. Other methods of increasing turbocharging efficiency include two-stage turbos and electrically assisted turbos; however, steam was determined to be the most efficient. The authors determined that by injecting steam into the turbine rather than exhaust gases at low RPMs, engine performance “can be increased by 25.0% over the exhaust turbocharging…

Diesel Emissions and Cancer 2 Diesel engine emissions from shipping freighters is a large source of air pollution all over the world. The Great Lakes region of the United States has very high concentrations of air pollution from these toxic emissions. The air quality in this region is considered poor. Several studies have been done linking increased rates of lung cancer to these emissions. These large vessels (shipping freighters) rank second only to power plants as to the health risk…