Combustion characteristics of hydrogen-natural gas mixtures in passenger car engines

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn 15, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Dimopoulos, P ^a   Boulouchos, K ^b   Rechsteiner, C ^c   Soltic, P ^a   Hotz, R ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c Iveco Motorenforschung AG   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSED NATURAL GAS; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; EFFICIENCY; FUEL CONSUMPTION; GAS ENGINES; HYDROGEN; NITROGEN OXIDES;

COMBUSTION ANALYSIS; COMBUSTION CHARACTERISTICS; EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; EFFICIENCY INCREASE; ENGINE-OUT EMISSIONS; OPTIMAL COMBINATION; PASSENGER CAR ENGINE; UNBURNED HYDROCARBONS;

COMBUSTION;

EID: 84876535876     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2007-24-0065     Document Type: Conference Paper

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