Evaluating the regulated emissions, air toxics, ultrafine particles, and black carbon from SI-PFI and SI-DI vehicles operating on different ethanol and iso-butanol blends

Fuel

Volumn 128, Issue , 2014, Pages 410-421

  Karavalakis, Georgios ^a   Short, Daniel ^a   Vu, Diep ^a   Villela, Mark ^a   Asa Awuku, Akua ^a   Durbin, Thomas D ^a  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbonyls; Ethanol blends; Gasoline direct injection; Iso butanol; Particle emissions

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; DIRECT INJECTION; ETHANOL; ETHANOL FUELS; FUELS; NITROGEN OXIDES; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; TESTING; VEHICLES; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

CARBONYLS; ETHANOL BLEND; GASOLINE DIRECT INJECTION; ISO-BUTANOL; PARTICLE EMISSIONS;

AIR POLLUTION;

EID: 84897977855     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2014.03.016     Document Type: Article

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