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Fuel Quality Improvement- Higher Ecological Transport Standards

Understanding of urban air pollution and the role of vehicle exhaust are one of the prerequisites for environmental sustainability. Sulphur in gasoline and diesel contributes to overall air pollution that negatively affects the global environment. Concerns related to the air pollution have been a primary driving force in settling sulphur standards. Regulating the sulphur content in fuels has economic and social benefits for society, as well as cost and competitiveness implications for the refining industry. The outcome of European efforts to stop further air pollution was a decision to regulate sulphur to below 50 ppm by the year 2005 and even less by the introduction of zero sulphur fuel with sulphur content below 10 ppm. Zero sulphur fuel with less than 10 ppm clearly reduces the contribution of road traffic to sulphur emissions. Zero sulphur fuel not only has a beneficial effect on particulate, HC, NOx and CO emissions but also indirectly reduces the CO2 emissions of road traffic compared to use of current commercially available fuels. Promoting sustainable urban transport through usage of low sulphur fuel is one part in achieving global environmental sustainability and therefore all parties involved have to give a maximum effort in attaining placed goals.

low sulphur fuel; transport standards; zero sulphur fuel

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