Ethanol blends and engine operating strategy effects on light-duty spark-ignition engine particle emissions

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 4977-4985

  Szybist, James P ^a   Youngquist, Adam D ^a   Barone, Teresa L ^a   Storey, John M ^a   Moore, Wayne R ^b   Foster, Matthew ^b   Confer, Keith ^b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DELPHI CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREATHING CONDITION; ETHANOL BLEND; FILTER SMOKE NUMBERS; FUEL INJECTION TIMING; INTAKE VALVE CLOSINGS; LIGHT-DUTY; OPERATING STRATEGY; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PARTICLE EMISSIONS; PARTICLE NUMBER EMISSION; PARTICLE NUMBER SIZE DISTRIBUTION; PORT FUEL INJECTIONS; REDUCING PARTICLE; SCANNING MOBILITY PARTICLE SIZER; SPARK-IGNITION ENGINE; VARIABLE VALVE ACTUATION;

DIRECT INJECTION; ELECTRIC SPARKS; ENGINES; ETHANOL; ETHANOL FUELS; FUEL ECONOMY; FUELS; GASOLINE; IGNITION; INTAKE VALVES; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT;

FUELING;

EID: 81555228155     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: 15205029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef201127y     Document Type: Article

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