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Boutique diesel in the on-road market

E. BENAZZI and C. CAMERON , Axens Worldwide demand for diesel fuel in 2005 is expected to be 22.8 Mbpd: on-road, 12.6 Mbpd and off-road,10.2 Mbpd. The distribution of on-road diesel usag..

Diesel market development 2001–2004

  These data represent the latest information on reported diesel sales volumes in the European Union, including 2004 data for the ten new memb..

Leading UK biofuels retailer moves into manufacturing

A subsidiary of the growing independent fuels group Greenergy International will operate a new rapeseed methyl ether (RME) biofuels plant situated near the ConocoPhillips and Total refineries at Immin..

SunDiesel - second-generation biodiesel backed by oil and car companies

Choren's so-called "SunDiesel" is a bold venture to commercialise second-generation biofuels technology, which has won investment and technology support from Shell. Although Ch..

NExBTL: A biofuel for sensitive city environments and the premium quality market

Neste Oil's Business Development Manager for biofuels and components, Raimo Linnaila, says the company watched carefully the development of the biofuels directive in Europe. "When the first draft was ..

Biofuels on the rise but questions remain

The European biofuels industry may be a young one, but it has been in a vigorous growth stage. The EU estimates that biodiesel production capacity increased by 35% between 2002 and 2005. It may now ha..

DME – the diesel alternative which is easy to dismiss, but hard to beat

Dimethyl-ether (DME) is a product which is better known today as a propellant for hairspray than as a fuel for heavy duty vehicles. DME's advocates point to its clean-burning properties, exceptionally..

A dramatic and dynamic decade for diesel production

Who could have imagined as we celebrated the new millennium that these ten years would find European diesel manufacturing at the heart of such fundamental political, economic and environmental upheava..

Applying instrumented overpressure protection systems

Fluor Corp.: Sutikno, T.

Transient analysis is required to verify their effectiveness

HP Automation Safety: What about the valve?

exida LLC: Goble, W.

For a long time, the focus of safety instrumented system design has been on the logic solver. For many, including myself, this started when I first heard about a "certified" safety programmable logic ..