Four-stroke diesel engines operated on plant oil methylester mixtures-performance and environmental effects

Fresenius Environmental Bulletin

Volumn 15, Issue 8 B, 2006, Pages 898-904

  Savvidis, Dimitrios ^a   Grammatikis, Vassilios ^a   Pecqueur, Mark ^b   Triandafyllis, John ^a   Vosniakos, Fokion ^a   Zoumakis, Nikolaos ^a   Kelesis, Apostolos ^c  

^a TEI of Thessaloniki ^*  (Greece)

^b Karel de Grote Hogeschool Katholieke Hogeschool Antwerpen   (Belgium)

^c Environmental Department of the Municipality of Thessaloniki   (Greece)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Biodiesel; Biofuel; Car emissions; Cottonseed oil; Used frying oil

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOFUEL; DIESEL; DIESEL ENGINE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ESTER; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; MICROPUS;

EID: 33749032154     PISSN: 10184619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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