Investigation of biofuels from microorganism metabolism for use as anti-knock additives

Fuel

Volumn 117, Issue PARTB, 2014, Pages 939-943

  Mack, J Hunter ^a   Rapp, Vi H ^a   Broeckelmann, Malte ^b   Lee, Taek Soon ^c,d   Dibble, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c JOINT BIOENERGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofuel; Blending; Knock; Octane; Spark ignition

Indexed keywords

BLENDING; ELECTRIC SPARKS; ENGINE CYLINDERS; ENGINES; FUEL ADDITIVES; METABOLISM; RESEARCH;

FUEL RESEARCH; KNOCK; METABOLIC PROCESS; OCTANE; PRIMARY REFERENCE FUELS; RESEARCH OCTANE NUMBER; SPARK IGNITION; SPARK-IGNITION ENGINE;

BIOFUELS;

EID: 84889562443     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2013.10.024     Document Type: Article

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