The effect of ethanol, petrol and rapeseed oil blends on direct injection diesel engine performance and exhaust emissions

Transport

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Labeckas, Gvidonas ^a   Slavinskas, Stasys ^a  

^a VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Diesel engine; Emissions; Ethanol; Performance efciency; Petrol; Rapeseed oil; Smoke opacity

Indexed keywords

BRAKES; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; DIRECT INJECTION; ENGINE CYLINDERS; ENGINES; ETHANOL; FUEL CONSUMPTION; GASOLINE; OILSEEDS; OPACITY; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; RATING; SMOKE; SPEED; VEGETABLE OILS; VISCOSITY;

BLEND VISCOSITIES; BRAKE MEAN EFFECTIVE PRESSURES; BRAKE SPECIFIC FUEL CONSUMPTION; DIRECT INJECTION DIESEL ENGINES; PERFORMANCE EFCIENCY; PETROL; RAPESEED OIL; SMOKE OPACITY;

DIESEL ENGINES;

EID: 77954720059     PISSN: 16484142     EISSN: 16483480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3846/transport.2010.15     Document Type: Article

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