Increase of passenger car engine efficiency with low engine-out emissions using hydrogen-natural gas mixtures: A thermodynamic analysis

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Volumn 32, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 3073-3083

  Dimopoulos, P ^a   Rechsteiner, C ^a,b   Soltic, P ^a   Laemmle, C ^a,c   Boulouchos, K ^c  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b Iveco Motorenforschung AG   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CNG; Combustion analysis; Design of experiments (DoE); Exhaust gas recirculation (EGR); Hydrogen; Mixtures; Passenger car engine

Indexed keywords

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; HYDROGEN; NATURAL GAS; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS;

COMBUSTION ANALYSIS; EXHAUST GAS RECIRCULATION (EGR); PASSENGER CAR ENGINE;

INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES;

EID: 34548472463     PISSN: 03603199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2006.12.026     Document Type: Article

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