A vehicle testing programme for calibration and validation of an evaporative emissions model

Fuel

Volumn 88, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1504-1512

  Mellios, Giorgos ^a   Samaras, Zissis ^a   Martini, Giorgio ^b   Manfredi, Urbano ^b   McArragher, Steve ^c   Rose, Ken ^c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c CONCAWE ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

Carbon canister; Evaporation losses; Hydrocarbon emissions

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT TEMPERATURES; EVAPORATION LOSSES; EVAPORATIVE EMISSIONS; HYDROCARBON EMISSIONS; MODEL INPUTS; TOP DOWNS; VEHICLE TESTING;

AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; EVAPORATION; FUEL TANKS; HYDROCARBONS; VAPORS; VEHICLES;

AUTOMOBILE FUEL TANKS;

EID: 65649140560     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2009.03.018     Document Type: Article

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