Impact of biodiesel blends on fuel consumption and emissions in euro 4 compliant vehicles

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 142-164

  Rose, Kenneth D ^a   Samaras, Zissis ^b   Jansen, Liesbeth ^c   Clark, Richard ^d   Elliott, Nigel ^e   Fontaras, Georgios ^b   Zemroch, Peter J ^d   Hall, Diane ^f   Cardenas Almena, Maria Dolores ^g   Higham, Cassandra ^h   Kalogirou, Maria ^b  

^a Exxon Mobil   (Belgium)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c Kuwait Petroleum Research and Technology   (Kuwait)

^d SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^e EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^f DH Consulting   (United States)

^g REPSOL YPF   (Spain)

^h BP Global Fuels Technology   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIESEL FUELS; DIESEL LOCOMOTIVES; DYNAMOMETERS; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; FUELS; NITROGEN OXIDES; VEHICLES;

DIESEL PARTICULATE FILTERS; EMISSIONS PERFORMANCE; EMISSIONS REGULATIONS; FATTY ACID METHYL ESTER; NEW EUROPEAN DRIVING CYCLES; PERFORMANCE AND EMISSIONS; RAPESEED METHYL ESTER; STATISTICAL PRECISION;

OILS AND FATS;

EID: 84904896671     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2010-01-1484     Document Type: Conference Paper

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