0010-2180/$ see front matter 2011 The Combust doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2011.08.015 ⇑ Corresponding author. Fax: +1 607 255 1222. E-mail address: [email protected] (C.T. Avedisian). The droplet burning characteristics of binary blends of iso-octane, n-heptane and toluene were studied in an ambience that minimizes external convection and promotes spherical droplet flames. The results are compare...

PURPOSE Existing literature shows negative relationships between gasoline price and motor vehicle crashes, particularly among teens. This paper extends that literature by evaluating the relationship between gasoline price and self-reported risky driving among teens. DESIGN Observational study using multivariate empirical analysis, using pooled data from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, waves 2...

Westudy a dual-channel supply chain under decentralized setting in which manufacturer sells to retailer and to customers directly usingan online channel. A customer chooses the purchase-channel based on price and service quality. Also, to buy product from the retail store, the customer incurs a transportation cost influenced by the fluctuating gasoline cost. Both companies are under the revenue...

T history of automobiles is inextricable from the story of one of the most pervasive toxic chemical exposures in modern human history. Globally, billions of people were poisoned by lead (Pb) between 1921, when General Motors Corporation introduced tetraethyl lead as an antiknock agent in gasoline-powered cars, until 2015, when leaded gasoline was scheduled to be phased out in Algeria, the last ...

Four new or updated epidemiologic studies were presented at a meeting on the health effects of gasoline exposure held in Miami, Florida, November 5-8, 1991. A focus of these studies was whether there is a relationship between gasoline exposure and kidney cancer and leukemia. For gasoline distribution workers, who have a relatively high exposure, there was some evidence for a kidney cancer relat...

The reasonable layout of charging stations is an important measure to improve the penetration rate electric taxi market. Based on multi-type clustering algorithm, a widely applicable locating method proposed. By analyzing massive gasoline GPS trajectory data, parking information and requirements taxis are extracted, research area divided into grids. Then, grids respectively subjected multiple s...

phytoremediation has gained increasing attention in recent years because of its ability to clean up and redevelop brownfield sites. petroleum hydrocarbon-contaminated sites are among most prevalent industrial sites in iran as one of the top oil producers in the world, which are in great need of remediation to prevent associated environmental and human health risks. a greenhouse study was conduc...

Online appendix figure I shows the dynamics of the effect of a change in the price of regular gasoline on the share of gasoline that is regular grade. The plot shows that a permanent increase in the regular price would increase the share of regular gasoline for at least six months. Online appendix figure II shows the distribution across households of the correlation between buying regular gasol...

Since 1970, vehicle’s exhaust pollutions have received increasing attention as a source of air pollution at both local (human health concerns) and global (global warming) scales. This study mainly discusses diesel and gasoline vehicles because, today, over 90% of vehicles on the road use gasoline and diesel fuels. The major concerns of gasoline exhaust contaminants are carbon monoxide (CO), hyd...

Ethanol use in vehicle fuel is increasing worldwide, but the potential cancer risk and ozone-related health consequences of a large-scale conversion from gasoline to ethanol have not been examined. Here, a nested global-through-urban air pollution/weather forecast model is combined with high-resolution future emission inventories, population data, and health effects data to examine the effect o...