Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 26, 2013
Results of a study led by a team from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory on the impact of butanol-gasoline blends on light-duty vehicle emissions suggest that widespread deployment of n-butanol or i-butanol in the gasoline pool could result in changes to the estimated emissions of alcohols and carbonyls in the emissions inventory.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 11, 2019
These blendstocks are best-suited for light-duty (LD) gasoline BSI engines. The merit function determines potential improvements in engine efficiency, was used to evaluate the performance of candidate bio-blendstocks in blends up to 30%. The blendstocks were identified using a fuel property basis using the BSI merit function.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 27, 2020
For the past four years, the Co-Optimization of Fuels & Engines (Co-Optima) National Laboratory consortium has focused research efforts primarily on turbocharged (boosted) spark-ignition (SI) engines for light-duty vehicles. Of the fuel properties investigated, these six were found to have the most impact on engine efficiency and emissions.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 28, 2019
The merit function quantifies the impact of six fuel properties—research octane number (RON), octane sensitivity (S), heat of vaporization (HOV), flame speed, particulate matter index (PMI), and catalyst light-off-temperature—on boosted SI efficiency.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 25, 2015
A higher compression ratio can be used if an engine will operate primarily at light loads, such that degraded efficiency at high loads is more than offset by improved efficiency at light loads. Alcohol and gasoline-alcohol blends also offer efficiency benefits independent of their octane value. —Leone et al.
Green Car Congress
JULY 8, 2015
The Ministry of Environmental Protection is planning a forcible emission standard for methanol-fueled light-duty vehicles, in which carbonyl pollution will be legislatively capped and the limit value is under discussion. Most recently, methanol-fueled prototypes are being tested in 3 provinces of China. Sileghem, L., Wallner, T.,
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