Impact of natural gas fuel composition on criteria, toxic, and particle emissions from transit buses equipped with lean burn and stoichiometric engines

Energy

Volumn 62, Issue , 2013, Pages 425-434

  Hajbabaei, Maryam ^a   Karavalakis, Georgios ^a   Johnson, Kent C ^a   Lee, Linda ^b   Durbin, Thomas D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD   (United States)

Author keywords

Emissions; Natural gas composition; Particle number; Transit buses

Indexed keywords

BUSES; CARBON MONOXIDE; DYNAMOMETERS; ENGINES; METHANE; NATURAL GAS; NITROGEN OXIDES; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PARTICULATE EMISSIONS;

CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICTS; CHASSIS DYNAMOMETERS; FORMALDEHYDE EMISSION; LEAN-BURN COMBUSTION; NATURAL GAS COMPOSITION; NON-METHANE HYDROCARBONS; PARTICLE NUMBERS; TRANSIT BUS;

GASES;

AMMONIA; BUS TRANSPORT; CARBON MONOXIDE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; EMISSION INVENTORY; ENGINE; EXHAUST EMISSION; HYDROCARBON; NATURAL GAS; PARTICULATE MATTER; STOICHIOMETRY;

EID: 84886605033     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2013.09.040     Document Type: Article

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