The impact on the usage of commercial fuels such as gasoline in automobile vehicles is an alarm in terms of health effects as it emits higher level of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. In addition, the need and demand for Gasoline products are in the increasing trend because of more number of vehicles which are on road and Governments plan to increase the cost of fuel. As slowly the scarcity of...

The main objective of this study is to analyze the different ratio of emulsified fuels on the performance, emission and combustion characteristics of four stroke single cylinder kirloskar TV-I direct injection compression ignition engine and compared with diesel fuel under different engine loads with constant engine speed of 1500 rpm. Four kinds of test fuels were prepared namely 80% diesel, 10...

Denatured fuel ethanol is the feedstock used to make different types of high ethanol content motor fuels. Before it can be used, the amount of ethanol and methanol must be measured to assure product quality. ASTM method D5501-09 uses high resolution gas chromatography to perform this analysis. In this paper, the Agilent 7890A GC system was configured to run D5501-09. Excellent system performanc...

Groundwater contamination by fuel spills from aboveground and underground storage tanks has been of growing concern in recent years. This problem has been magnified by the addition of oxygenates, such as ethanol and methyl-tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE) to fuels to reduce vehicular emissions to the atmosphere. These additives, although beneficial in reducing atmospheric pollution, may, however, in...

The transient behavior of a Fuel Processor System to produce Hydrogen from bio-ethanol with high performance, coupled with a Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell is modeled. The Ethanol Processor is based on a previous steady state design, optimized to work with maximum efficiency around 10 kW of rated power. From the dynamic rigorous model, a linearized model is identified to apply a systematic ...

--This research is aimed to investigate experimentally the performance and exhaust emission characteristics of a direct injection (DI) diesel engine when fuelled with blends of conventional diesel fuel and ethanol, blends of rice bran methyl ester with ethanol, blends of diesel and rice bran methyl ester over the entire range of load on the engine. The experimental results showed that the highe...

We tested the value of ethanol fuel as a killing solution in terms of sampling efficiency (species richness and accumulated abundance) and DNA preservation of Ensifera ground-dwelling specimens. Sampling efficiency was evaluated comparing abundance and species richness of pitfall sampling using 100% ethanol fuel, with two alternative killing solutions. We evaluated the DNA preservation efficien...

Brazil is currently confronted with the perspective of significant increase on ethanol fuel demand. This forecast is based on three main points: i) the success of flexible-fuel vehicles that can run on any proportion of gasoline (E20-E25 blend) and hydrous ethanol (E100), together with the mandatory E25 blend throughout the country which allowed ethanol fuel consumption to achieve more than 50%...

DETERMINATION OF Cd AND Pb IN FUEL ETHANOL BY FILTER FURNACE ELECTROTHERMAL ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY. A method was developed for quantification of Cd and Pb in ethanol fuel by filter furnace atomic absorption spectrometry. Filter furnace was used to eliminate the need for chemical modification, to stabilize volatile analytes and to allow the application of short pyrolysis step. The determ...

Enhanced environmental quality, fuel security, and economic development along with reduced prices of ethanol–gasoline blends are often used as justifications for the U.S. federal excise tax exemption on ethanol fuels. However, the possible effect of increased overall consumption of fuel in response to lower total price, mitigating the environmental and fuel security benefits, are generally not ...