Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2013

A study by a team of researchers from France and the US found that the origin of volatile hydrocarbons, other than methane, present in city air is mainly gasoline-powered vehicles. They therefore concluded that gasoline engines are probably the main source of volatile hydrocarbons in both cities.

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Los Angeles Pollution Gasoline Engine 225

Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2012

Environmental impacts of gasoline and E85. eutrophication; ET = ecological toxicity; FEC = fossil energy consumption; WU = water use; LO = land occupation; “The rest” includes acidification; smog formation; ozone layer depletion; and human health effects. Process flow diagrams for E85 and gasoline. GW = global warming; Eut.

Gasoline 357

Gasoline Water Emissions Minnesota 357

Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2009

Researchers at the University of California San Francisco have engineered the industrial yeast S. ZSM-5 and SAPO-34) have been used to convert methyl halides to products including gasoline, olefins, aromatics, alcohols and ethers. bio-gasoline—in a two-step process. cerevisiae uses to produce methyl halides. fermentans.

Engine 150

Engine Fuel San Francisco Convert 150