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PETROL AND GAS
Crude Oil reserves - several decades left.
Petrol, diesel - medium fuel value 48 kJ/g
Ψ Petrol = ‘octane’ fraction C7-C8
Removing knocking (pre-ignition)
requires additives such as MTBE.
• Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether
• BTX in use (40%) in unleaded.
• Poll: VOC, NOX, CO, CO2
Ψ Diesel = fraction C9-C11
• Poll: Particles, VOC, NOX, CO, CO2 , SO2 
Ψ Natural gas (CNG) = methane
• medium fuel value 56 kJ/g
• low energy density – it is a gas not a liquid
• Poll: NOX, CO, CO2; better ratio E:CO2 
LPG