Using ethanol as an alternate fuel‚ or fuel extender includes a heterogenous agglomeration of advantages and disadvantages. On cars: ethanol is preferable to lead as an octane booster. A 10% addition of ethanol to petrol is more effective than lead at boosting octane rating (+2.5) and making car run smoother. It’s cheaper than lead‚ and ethanol-blended fuels leave no gummy deposits‚ thus keeps engine clean. Although a minimal 10% ethanol blend should be compatible with internal combustion engines
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. .. 2. Booking . .. 3. Car... 4. Car History ... 6. Customer History . .. Introduction I. Purpose This project is designed so as to be used by Car Rental Company specializing in renting cars to customers. It is an online system through which customers can view available cars‚ register and book car. Owner of company have records of its car and driver. A customer will
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Alternate Fuel Source for Cars Petroleum is the most commonly source of fuel‚ even with the other sources such as electricity‚ liquefied petroleum gas‚ hydrogen‚ and solar powered cars There are wide ranges of automobiles used around the world. Mostly all automobiles are powered by petroleum. With increasing concerns about pollution and other toxins in the atmosphere‚ the industry is forced to look into alternate forms of fuel. In the past scientists have been looking into solar and electrically
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Alternative Fuels This day in age‚ one of the world’s main concerns is energy. Currently‚ we rely on petroleum to run our cars‚ and household central heat‚ and electricity in our homes. Petroleum is not only limited‚ but it is also dirtying up the world’s air‚ and depleting the ozone layer as it is burned. Alternative fuels are one of the worlds most talked about issues‚ and many solutions have been brought forth‚ yet none of them have been sophisticatedly acted upon. Through the list of pros
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Henry Clements Car Rental Agency Case Study Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Henry Clements Car Rental Agency Case Study The purpose of this case study is to determine‚ utilizing quantitative methods‚ the recommendations that should be made to Henry Clements in regards to forecasting to help improve his business’ performance. Table 1 3 Month Data Week 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Demand 126 200 243 167 132 211 243 1667 131 208 251 171 Table 2 Standard Cost
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Car Rental Business Plan A car rental business plan is a familiar business model for most bankers and investors. Ever since car sharing programs like Flex Car rose to prominence in the "˜00s‚ business people have re-imagined what the car rental business model can be. Which is not to say that the conventional model is dead—far from it. Auto rental behemoths like Avis‚ Hertz‚ and Enterprise have managed to keep revenues up despite the flagging economy‚ and one look at any airport parking lot shows
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2007‚ the rent a car industry has been booming since the financial crisis had hit the world. Peoples’ buying power drastically went down as they could not afford to pay the huge sum of money to car dealers. After 2007‚ banks refused to give loans to the general public as they were in no position to. In the Middle East owning a car has become more of a necessity than just a luxury as people cannot do their house hold jobs without it‚ and even small businesses cannot operate without a car. However‚ the
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developments in polymer electrolyte fuel cells for vehicle applications Kassim Jama* Afiq Latip Erwan Firdaus Kranthi K. Kumpatla Mohamud Mohamed 5 Department of Chemical and Process Engineering‚ University College London Torrington Place‚ London WC1E 7JE‚ United Kingdom 10 Abstract The study of fuel cell systems promise to be a very important topic in the present day as we prepare ourselves in the energy challenges that lay ahead of us in the near future. Fuel cell system is an advanced
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II. Operations Products (Service) The company provides a service‚ mainly vehicle rental‚ to replace a customer’s damaged or out of service vehicle. This service has been around for awhile‚ in this case since 1957‚ and appears to be in the mature phase. A case could be made that in the case of Enterprise‚ the service of vehicle rental is still in the growth phase since annual revenue‚ fleet size‚ employee size‚ and the number of locations has grown every year since the founding of the company
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INTRODUCTION According to Wikipedia‚ fuel is any material that stores energy that can later be extracted to perform mechanical work in a controlled manner. A fuel contains energy‚ mostly heat‚ which can be released and then manipulated. Most fuels used by humans undergo combustion‚ a redox reaction in which a combustible substance releases energy after it ignites and reacts with the oxygen in the air. Other processes used to convert fuel into energy include various other exothermic chemical
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