Investigation on firing behavior of the spark-ignition engine fueled with methanol, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), and methanol/LPG during cold start

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 3779-3784

  Gong, Changming ^a   Deng, Baoqing ^a   Wang, Shu ^b   Su, Yan ^a   Gao, Qing ^a   Liu, Xunjun ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b National NGV Engineering   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTANE; ELECTRIC SPARKS; FUEL INJECTION; FUEL PURIFICATION; GAS INDUSTRY; GASES; IGNITION; LIQUEFIED GASES; LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS; METHANOL; PETROLEUM REFINERIES; STARTING; TEMPERATURE;

AMBIENT TEMPERATURES; COLD STARTS; CONTROL STRATEGIES; IGNITION ENGINES; INJECTION TIMINGS; LOW INJECTION PRESSURES;

ENGINES;

EID: 57849111039     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef800471h     Document Type: Article

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