Alternative fuel technician

Are you interested in improving the quaiity of the air you breathe and reducing our dependence on petroieum resources Do you iike to work with cars Then consider a career as an aiternative fueis technician. 

Alternative fuels are being developed and used today to replace fossil fuels such as oil. As an alternative fuels technician, you may work in research developing new vehicles. Or, you may educate consumers and service and maintain their environmentally friendly vehicles. 

Each alkane-based substituent group branching from the parent chain is named for the straight-chain alkane having the same number of carbon atoms as the substituent. The ending -ane is replaced with the letters -yl, as shown in the following diagram. 

An alkane-based substituent group is called an alkyl group. Several common alkyl groups are shown in Table 22-2. What relationship exists between these groups and the alkanes in Table 22-1  

The naming process To name organic structures, chemists follow systematic rules approved by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (lUPAC). Here are the rules for naming branched-chain alkanes. 

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This book is addressed to a broad category of people engineers and technicians in industry students and researchers and scientists in government research institutions. With new alternative fuels and energy on the horizon, ceramic materials are feasible alternative engine materials, able to work at high temperature with minimum wear. 

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