The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Diesel engines power the dominant share of goods movement, construction equipment, and public transport vehicles in the global economy. This report presents a global strategy to reduce fine particulate (PM2.5) and black carbon emissions from the global fleet of on-road diesel vehicles. The strategy identifies 36 countries for immediate action. …
Investing in ultra-low-sulfur fuel (ULSF, fuels with less than 10 ppm sulfur content) and clean vehicle technologies in India will not come without costs. But the benefits of these investments, in terms of reduced healthcare costs and higher productivity, far outweigh the costs. This paper discusses these issues in detail.
MARGAO: In a bid to control air pollution in the port town of Vasco and Margao, the district authorities have outlined a 16-point program to check increasing air pollution in the two towns, with a suggestion to make pollution check compulsory for all vehicles entering the State. The program was …
Study of refining capability requirements, corresponding capital investment requirements, and per-liter refining costs to transition to ultra-low sulfur gasoline and diesel fuel in India, Mexico, Brazil and China. Advanced emission control technologies in engines and vehicles require clean fuels, especially ultra-low sulfur gasoline (ULSG) and diesel fuel (ULSD). In the …
Diesel fumes cause lung cancer, the World Health Organisation declared Tuesday, and experts said they were more carcinogenic than secondhand cigarette smoke. The WHO decision, the first to elevate diesel to the “known carcinogen” level, may eventually affect some American workers who are heavily exposed to exhaust. It is particularly …
Around the same time the finance minister was reading out his Budget speech, Honda Motors was applying the final touches to its long-term diesel game plan for India, which will culminate in India emerging a global hub for diesel engines for compact cars. With Pranab Mukherjee steering clear of imposing …
Essar Oil, on Tuesday, said it has commissioned a unit that would produce Euro-V grade diesel at its Vadinar refinery in Gujarat. The 4-million tonnes a year diesel hydrotreater unit-I (DHDT-I) “will upgrade diesel quality by treating the sour diesel streams and achieving reduction in sulphur as well as an …
Steps are being taken to reduce the maximum sulphur content in diesel from 3,000 parts per million (ppm) to 500 ppm by 2012, said Environment Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa. He said that the government has planned to substantially lower the sulphur level in diesel due to its negative impact on …
The power and energy ministry has decided to reduce the sulphur content level to 500ppm (parts per million) in diesel by 2013 from its present level of 2500ppm. The decision was made at a meeting with the state minister for power and energy, Mohammad Enamul Haque, in the chair, following …
Delhi will join a premier league of global cities on Thursday when the cleaner and greener ultra-low sulphur diesel is introduced, astep aimed at curbing vehicular pollution in the national capital. On Thursday, Delhi will also become one of the 13 cities in the country to introduce Bharat Stage-IV emission …
NEW DELHI, March 11: Ultra low sulphur diesel is likely to become available in the city from April 1. The new, cleaner fuel is expected to improve the air quality in the city. With the introduction of the new fuel, the city will be at par with many cities in …
Hart Energy Publishing's International Fuel Quality Center recently released a ranking of the top 100 countries based on sulfur limits on on-road diesel. Sweden was found to be at the top of the ranking, followed by Germany and Japan, being sole position-holders of second and third place, respectively.
