Effect of the valve timing and the coolant temperature on particulate emissions from a gasoline direct-injection engine fuelled with gasoline and with a gasoline-ethanol blend

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering

Volumn 226, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1419-1430

  Chen, Longfei ^a   Stone, Richard ^b   Richardson, Dave ^c  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c JAGUAR LAND ROVER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ethanol blend; gasoline direct injection; particulate emissions; Valve timing

Indexed keywords

COOLANTS; DIRECT INJECTION; ETHANOL; EXHAUST GAS RECIRCULATION; FUEL ECONOMY; GAS EMISSIONS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; TIMING CIRCUITS;

DIRECT INJECTION ENGINES; ETHANOL BLEND; EXHAUST GAS RECIRCULATION RATES; GASOLINE DIRECT INJECTION; GASOLINE DIRECT INJECTION ENGINES; GASOLINE ETHANOL BLENDS; PARTICULATE MATTER EMISSIONS; VALVE TIMING;

GASOLINE;

EID: 84870467482     PISSN: 09544070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0954407012444966     Document Type: Article

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