Energy security and greenhouse gas emissions of natural gas heavy-duty commercial trucking

Proceedings of the Air and Waste Management Association's Annual Conference and Exhibition, AWMA

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages 3001-3023

  Santini, Danilo J ^a   Rood Werpy, Marcy A ^a   Burnham, Andrew J ^a   Han, Jeongwoo ^a   Wallner, Thomas ^a   Grannis, Lee ^b   Laughlin, Michael D ^c  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Greater New Haven Clean Cities Coalition   (United States)

^c Energetics Incorporated   (United States)

Author keywords

Coal to liquids (CTL); Compressed natural gas (CNG); Compression ignition (CI); Energy security; Fischer Tropsch diesel (FTD); Greenhouse gases (GHG); Heavy duty natural gas truck; High pressure direct ignition (HPDI); Liquefied natural gas (LNG)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903315089     PISSN: 10526102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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