Collocations withfuel
These are words often used in combination withfuel.
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add fuel to
Not surprisingly, 'this added fuel to the fire'.
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alcohol fuel
The oil was intended to prevent sailors from drinking the alcohol fuel.
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alternative fuel
In these cases, policies geared toward lowering fuelwood use such as fuelwood taxes or alternative fuel subsidies may not have much, if any, environmental impact.
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amount of fuel
The amount of fuel was varied between the four capsules to change the yield, implosion velocity, and shell thickness.
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average fuel
This winter's £200 payment represents more than one third of the annual average fuel bill for a pensioner household.
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aviation fuel
This suggests mainly undegraded light aviation fuel mixed with heavier fuels and lubricants.
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biodiesel fuel
This increasingly efficient (and thus cost effective) production greatly encourages wide-scale commercial production of this biodiesel fuel.
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burning fuel
As an analogy, to run a refrigerator to generate a local decrease in temperature requires someone, somewhere to be burning fuel in a power station.
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clean fuel
So far, out of the 350 clean fuel vehicles to receive funding, 290 have been vehicles fuelled by liquefied petroleum gas or natural gas.
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competitive fuel
Under these conditions, it is perhaps no wonder that the man in the street expects gas to be an increasingly competitive fuel.
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diesel fuel
Wetted soil was packed into columns with the top 75 mm of the soil contaminated with diesel fuel.
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electronic fuel injection
Electronic fuel injection raises the costs to $800, but improves the fuel economy by 5 per cent.
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excess fuel
The cause of the fire is believed to have been the escape of excess fuel from an ill-fitting carburettor.
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extra fuel
We are considering the provision to help with extra fuel costs during exceptionally severe weather further in the light of last winter's experience.
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fuel assembly
The 70 ft fuel assembly became stuck during on-load refuelling because there were distortions in the channel.
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fuel capacity
If they cannot do so with their ordinary fuel capacity, what about refuelling?
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fuel consumption
Working speed, on the other hand, underwent no marked variation during the 3-year trial period; consequently, working capacity and fuel consumption remained virtually unchanged.
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fuel cycle
It provides a complete range of nuclear fuel cycle services to utilities both in this country and abroad.
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fuel depot
Large concentrations of polyaromatic compounds, many of which are known carcinogens, have spilled into the soils at the historic fuel depot areas.
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fuel dump
This population was more extensive than at the fuel dump and the animals appeared to be at higher densities.
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fuel fabrication
This would be stockpiled, except so far as it was required for use for approved purposes—for example, for fuel fabrication.
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fuel gauge
The same does not hold for the fuel gauge and the temperature indicator because they are small items.
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fuel industry
If it can develop clean, environmentally friendly fuels, its export position in the fuel industry can only benefit.
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fuel injector
Costs are further reduced because all cylinders at each end of the engine share a common fuel injector and/or spark plug.
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fuel leak
The aircraft, on a routine training sortie flying at 2,000 ft and 300 knots, suffered a major fuselage fuel leak and an associated engine flame-out.
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fuel mileage
This makes the 5-minute qualifiers a battle between power and fuel mileage.
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fuel pellet
The fast ignitor approach star ts out much the same as conventional laser fusion, using a barrage of lasers to compress a fuel pellet.
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fuel pool
It was reported that water in the spent fuel pool might be boiling.
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fuel requirement
In 1957, there was a decline in the solid fuel requirement of about 7 million tons.
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fuel standard
The need for an open fuel standard could not be any clearer as we have seen the rising price of oil in recent years.
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fuel surcharge
Furthermore, there has since that time been an aviation fuel surcharge and there are more changes to come.
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fuel switching
This model places heavy emphasis on income in explaining fuel choice and tends to focus on fuel switching.
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fuel tanker
It is essentially a fuel tanker with a number of design features to improve its manoeuvrability in difficult terrain.
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fuel usage
The last two columns compare the fuel usage in an optimal solution and the minimum fuel usage in the linear relaxation of the problem instance.
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gallon of fuel
Therefore, the vehicle not only goes less far on a gallon of fuel but emits further carbon dioxide.
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gaseous fuel
The use of any other gaseous fuel in road vehicles is prohibited by the regulations.
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hydrocarbon fuel
I believe that that is almost too low a percentage in a world where our hydrocarbon fuel supplies are always at risk.
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imported fuel
Not surprisingly, the distribution of increasingly scarce imported fuel and fertilisers tended to be biased in favour of food crops.
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improved fuel
These improvements may increase the price of new cars but, then, reduced emissions mean improved fuel economy, so those who buy the cars will save money as they drive them.
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liquid fuel
Gas flaring emissions are highly concentrated in a few countries with large oil endowments and are more closely associated with liquid fuel production than with its use.
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motor fuel
I know of no such fuels being developed, or likely to be developed quickly, to augment motor fuel supplies to any significant extent.
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octane fuel
Once growth has started they are very high octane fuel in the engine, but something else is needed to start the engine.
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oxide fuel
The biogas would then have been passed through a specially developed tubular solid oxide fuel cell that generates electricity directly.
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residual fuel
Added to this was crude oil and hydrocarbon products including petrol, diesel, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas and residual fuel oil.
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spent fuel
Spent fuel elements from submarines and other defence reactors produce very small heat outputs which are readily absorbed by immersion in water.
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synthetic fuel
I understand the steel is needed for the ovens in order to produce the synthetic fuel as well as for the adaptation of the vehicles.
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ton of fuel
From a ton of fuel oil one uses the last drop.
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unburned fuel
Over time, unburned fuel contaminated the ground water aquifer.
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used fuel
However, the rotation farm used fuel for cutting, raking and baling of alfalfa that was not needed in either the conventional or the no-till system.
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