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Researchers at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) in Munich, Germany, have demonstrated a diesel truck engine with barely measurable emissions. The research team, headed by Professor Georg Wachtmeister from the Chair of Internal Combustion Engines,...
Tags: barely measurable, combustion chamber, diesel fuel, Germany, Munich, Environment, Air pollution, Gases, Exhaust gas, Vehicles, Internal combustion engine, Diesel engine, Combustion
Germany's biodiesel industry, Europe's largest, is suffering from cheap U.S. European Union import duties, industry leaders said on Monday. The EU in May imposed anti-subsidy duties on imports of biodiesel and fossil diesel/biofuel blends with more than...
Tags: Germany, green fuel, U.S, petrol stations, Norbert Heim, biodiesel industry, percent biodiesel, biodiesel content, fossil diesel, Berlin, Environment, Liquid fuels, Biodiesel, Petroleum products, Fuels, Business Finance, Diesel fuel, Vegetable oil used as fuel, Biofuels, Alternative propulsion
Saskatchewan farmers looking to save on their energy bills by making their own biodiesel fuel be warned: check with your insurance company first. Provincial insurer Saskatchewan Government Insurance will not cover any homeowner or farmer who decides to...
Tags: Neil Webster, Manitoba SGI, Saskatchewan Government Insurance, biodiesel plant, Canada, Toronto, Environment, Liquid fuels, Biodiesel, Biodiesel in the United States, Canola, Diesel fuel, Alternative propulsion, Biofuels, Sustainable transport
A Fargo company is seeking investors for a plant in northwestern North Dakota that would make diesel fuel to help run drilling rigs in the state's oil patch, but one oil industry official said it might be a risky business. Mike Wavra, president of Dakota...
Tags: North Dakota Petroleum Council, Williston Mayor Ward Koeser, Mike Wavra, Bismarck, Environment, Liquid fuels, Biodiesel, Petroleum products, Business Finance, Ethanol fuel, Diesel fuel, Biofuels, Alternative propulsion, Ethanol
Commissioners Charles Eaton and Jeff Wolf decided to wait until the board’s first meeting in December before locking in gasoline and diesel contracts, following bid openings Monday. Commissioner president Marc Applegate was unable to attend Monday’s meeting,...
Tags: Tom Kouns, crude oil, U.S. Energy Information Administration, Commissioners Charles Eaton, Co-Alliance, pump price, futures market, fuel contract, Singapore, Price of petroleum, to 2008 world oil market chronology, Commodities market, Liquid fuels, Petroleum products, Gasoline, Gasoline and diesel usage and pricing, Business Finance, Diesel fuel
The used vegetable oil inside the cooker is still good, and it can power a high school teacher's car. Bloom High School chemistry and physics teacher Barry Latham is asking the public to donate all vegetable oil used during the holidays so he can convert...
Tags: vegetable oil, Barry Latham, Chicago, Fuels, Petroleum products, Biodiesel, Vegetable oil used as fuel, Diesel fuel, Alternative propulsion, Biofuels, Liquid fuels, Education
The U.S. biodiesel fuel industry, already reeling from a string of recent setbacks, is facing what could be a knock-out punch unless a critical federal subsidy is renewed in the coming weeks. Domestic producers of the alternative fuel in Texas and elsewhere...
Tags: U.S, Bio-diesel Coalition of Texas, biodiesel plant, tax credit, Congress, petroleum diesel, Port Neches, Fuels, Biofuel in the United States, Biodiesel, Diesel fuel, Biofuel, Business Finance, Alternative propulsion, Liquid fuels, Biofuels, Environment
BioCat Fuels plans to raise $7 million through a private stock offering to buy or build a biodiesel plant in Illinois that will use a patented process to produce biodiesel fuel from waste oils. BioCat, a start-up, would use technology developed by its...
Tags: BioCat Fuels, Ric Larson, Illinois, Clayton McNeff, Chicago, Biodiesel, Sustainable transport, Oils, Diesel fuel, Vegetable fats and oils, Business Finance, Liquid fuels, Alternative propulsion, Biofuels, Environment
I get an exhilarating feeling of freedom from going down the road running on this renewable fuel. When Rudolf Diesel invented the diesel engine, he designed it to run on peanut oil. It was soon discovered that it would operate on cheaper petroleum oil.
Tags: vegetable oil, veggie oil, waste vegetable, diesel engines, diesel fuel, Bridgeport, Petroleum products, Fuels, Biodiesel, Vegetable oil used as fuel, Business Finance, Alternative propulsion, Liquid fuels, Biofuels, Environment
A faulty monitoring system on a gasoline tank at a Puerto Rico storage facility most likely led to a massive fire in October that damaged homes and businesses more than a mile away, federal investigators said Tuesday. A storage tank at the Caribbean Petroleum...
Tags: CSB, Puerto Rico, San Juan, csb investigator, FBI, monitoring systems, Bayamón, Storage tank, Industrial disasters, U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, San Juan Puerto Rico, Diesel fuel, Environment, Liquid fuels, Petroleum products, Gasoline, Disaster Accident