Detection of fuel type on a spark ignition engine from engine vibration behaviour

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 171-175

  Gravalos, Ioannis ^a   Loutridis, Spyridon ^a   Moshou, Dimitrios ^b   Gialamas, Theodoros ^a   Kateris, Dimitrios ^b   Tsiropoulos, Zisis ^a   Xyradakis, Panagiotis ^a  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Blend; Engine vibration; Ethanol; Fuel; Gasoline; Methanol

Indexed keywords

BLEND; ENGINE VIBRATION; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FREQUENCY CONTENTS; GASOLINE-ETHANOL BLEND; INTERMEDIATE RESULTS; VIBRATION AMPLITUDE; VIBRATION BEHAVIOURS;

ENGINES; ETHANOL; FUELS; METHANOL;

GASOLINE;

EID: 84874844729     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2013.02.003     Document Type: Article

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