SB 341 now returns to the Senate for Concurrence in House Amendments HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the state House of Representatives approved legislation (Senate ...

State Auditor General Jack Wagner prompted lawmakers Thursday to pass a bill that would require inspections to make sure retail gasoline sold in Pennsylvania contains accurate octane levels. Wagner, ...

Consumers may experience less pain at the gas pumps.While gas prices have fallen in recent weeks, state lawmakers are working to bring prices down even further.A dozen state lawmakers and the state ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (CBS) - Governor Corbett is expected to sign a bill now on his desk that would authorize random testing for gasoline octane levels in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is one of only three ...

The fuel and engine community has been using Cooperative Fuel Research (CFR) engines for nearly a century to quantify a fuel’s “knocking” propensity, or the likelihood that it will autoignite in the ...

A method tested on various diesel blends of known cetane numbers showed a good correlation with the fuel’s octane numbers. Spontaneous ignition results in knock in a spark-ignition engine, whereas ...