Cold start characteristics of an ethanol-fuelled engine with heated intake air and fuel

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue , 2012, Pages 198-201

  Monteiro Sales, Luis Carlos ^a   Sodré, José Ricardo ^b  

^a FIAT Powertrain Technologies   (Brazil)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cold Start; Ethanol; Internal Combustion Engines

Indexed keywords

COLD START; ENGINE START; EVAPORATION TEMPERATURE; FUEL-AIR MIXTURES; GASOLINE-ETHANOL BLEND; INTAKE AIR; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES (ICE); LOW TEMPERATURES;

ENGINES; FUELS; GASOLINE; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES;

ETHANOL;

EID: 84857462468     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2012.01.057     Document Type: Article

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