Real-world on-road exhaust emissions from an ordinary gasoline car operated on E85 and on butanol-gasoline blend

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn 6, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Vojtisek Lom, Michal ^a,b   Pechout, Martin ^b   Mazac, Martin ^b  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF LIBEREC   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE ENGINES; BIOETHANOL; ETHANOL; FUEL INJECTION;

COMPETITIVE PRICES; EMISSIONS MONITORING; ENGINE CONTROL UNIT; EXHAUST TEMPERATURE; MATERIAL COMPATIBILITY; RENEWABLE SOURCES; STOICHIOMETRIC RATIO; THREE WAY CATALYSTS;

GASOLINE;

EID: 84890344657     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2013-24-0102     Document Type: Conference Paper

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