Impacts of ethanol fuel level on emissions of regulated and unregulated pollutants from a fleet of gasoline light-duty vehicles

Fuel

Volumn 93, Issue , 2012, Pages 549-558

  Karavalakis, Georgios ^a   Durbin, Thomas D ^a   Shrivastava, Manish ^b   Zheng, Zhongqing ^a   Villela, Mark ^a   Jung, Heejung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbonyls; Driving cycles; Ethanol; Exhaust emissions; Toxics

Indexed keywords

1 ,3-BUTADIENE; CARBONYLS; CHASSIS DYNAMOMETERS; CO EMISSIONS; COLD-START; CONSUMPTION MEASUREMENT; DRIVING CYCLE; ETHANOL BLEND; EXHAUST EMISSION; FEDERAL TEST PROCEDURES; FLEXIBLE FUEL VEHICLES; LIGHT DUTY VEHICLES; TOXICS;

ACETALDEHYDE; BUTADIENE; CARBON DIOXIDE; DYNAMOMETERS; ETHANOL; FLEET OPERATIONS; FUEL ECONOMY; FUELS; GAS EMISSIONS; GASOLINE; GREENHOUSE GASES; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; POLLUTION; TESTING; VEHICLES;

ETHANOL FUELS;

EID: 84855982533     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2011.09.021     Document Type: Article

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