Related topics: ethanol
Gasoline
hideGasoline or petrol is a petroleum-derived liquid mixture, primarily used as fuel in internal combustion engines. It also is used as a powerful solvent much like acetone.
It consists mostly of aliphatic hydrocarbons, enhanced with iso-octane or the aromatic hydrocarbons toluene and benzene to increase its octane rating. Small quantities of various additives are common, for purposes such as tuning engine performance or reducing harmful exhaust emissions. Some mixtures also contain significant quantities of ethanol as a partial alternative fuel.
Most current or former Commonwealth countries use the term petrol, abbreviated from petroleum spirit. In North America, the word gasoline is the common term, where it is often shortened in colloquial usage to simply gas. It is not a genuinely gaseous fuel (unlike, for example, liquefied petroleum gas, which is stored under pressure as a liquid, but returned to a gaseous state before combustion). The term petrogasoline is also used.
In aviation, mogas, short for motor gasoline, is used to distinguish automobile fuel from aviation gasoline, or avgas. In British English, gasoline can refer to a different petroleum derivative historically used in lamps, but this usage is relatively uncommon.
For more information about Gasoline, read the full article at
Wikipedia.
This text uses material from Wikipedia and is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.
News tagged with gasoline
Argonne advanced battery research driving to displace gasoline (w/ Video)
Dec 21, 2009 |
3.7 / 5 (7) |
3
(PhysOrg.com) -- In excess of seven million barrels of gasoline are consumed by vehicles in the United States every day. As scientists race to find environmentally sound solutions to fuel the world’s ever-growing ...
Ethanol results in higher ozone concentrations than gasoline, researchers say
Dec 14, 2009 |
4.4 / 5 (8) |
4
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ethanol, often promoted as a clean-burning, renewable fuel that could help wean the nation from oil, would likely worsen health problems caused by ozone, compared with gasoline, especially ...
Researchers engineer bacteria to turn carbon dioxide into liquid fuel
Dec 10, 2009 |
4.7 / 5 (43) |
25
(PhysOrg.com) -- The genetically modified cyanobacterium consumes carbon dioxide and produces the liquid fuel isobutanol by using energy from sunlight.
Road rage: Fuel vapor heightens aggression
Nov 24, 2009 |
4.5 / 5 (4) |
1
Outrageous prices may not be the only thing causing anger at the petrol pumps. A new study, published in the open access journal BMC Physiology, has shown that rats exposed to fumes from leaded and unleaded gasoline become ...
Machine Converts CO2 into Gasoline, Diesel, and Jet Fuel
Nov 23, 2009 |
4.4 / 5 (45) |
25
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have built a machine that uses the sun's energy to convert carbon dioxide waste from power plants into transportation fuels such as gasoline, diesel, ...
Hybrid automaker Fisker to buy shuttered GM plant
Oct 27, 2009 |
4 / 5 (4) |
3
Budding US hybrid car maker Fisker Automotive will reopen a shuttered General Motors plant in Delaware to build fuel-efficient, plug-in cars, the White House announced Tuesday.
Costs of plug-in cars key to broad consumer acceptance
Oct 21, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
A University of Michigan survey released today shows widespread consumer interest in buying plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). But the cost of the cars is much more influential than environmental and other non-economic ...
New technology cleans up Visalia Superfund 100 years ahead of schedule
Sep 21, 2009 |
5 / 5 (2) |
1
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's technology was instrumental in cleaning up Southern California Edison's Visalia Pole Yard, which is scheduled to be taken off the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund list this ...
NREL Team Tests Higher Ethanol Fuel Mix
Sep 19, 2009 |
3.7 / 5 (3) |
16
(PhysOrg.com) -- Going on a diet can be good for you. And maybe a gasoline "diet" of traditional fuel blended with increased levels of ethanol will be good for the environment and economy without hurting cars ...
Fuel economy higher, thanks to Cash for Clunkers
Sep 14, 2009 |
4.2 / 5 (6) |
1
Cash for Clunkers may have run out of money, but certainly not gas.
Lead in bone associated with increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease in men
Sep 09, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
Growing evidence shows that exposure to lead in the environment is associated with cardiovascular disease, including increased risk of hypertension. However, those studies have looked at lead concentrations in blood, not ...
Technology strikes a chord with algal biofuels
Sep 03, 2009 |
4.6 / 5 (10) |
3
An award-winning Los Alamos National Laboratory sound-wave technology is helping Solix Biofuels, Inc. optimize production of algae-based fuel in a cost-effective, scalable, and environmentally benign fashion—paving the way ...
Boost for Methanol? New solid catalyst for the direct low-temperature oxidation of methane to methanol
Aug 21, 2009 |
5 / 5 (8) |
3
(PhysOrg.com) -- As a possible energy source for fuel cells or a substitute for gasoline, methanol is increasingly drawing attention beyond its importance as a feedstock for chemical industry. It can be stored much more efficiently ...
Researchers boost production of biofuel that could replace gasoline
Aug 19, 2009 |
3.9 / 5 (9) |
5
(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at Ohio State University have found a way to double the production of the biofuel butanol, which might someday replace gasoline in automobiles.
Analysis: 'Cash for Clunkers' program is expensive way to cut carbon emissions
Aug 14, 2009 |
5 / 5 (3) |
4
New UC Davis estimates say the federal government's Cash for Clunkers program is paying at least 10 times the "sticker price" to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.
