Assessing the Climate Trade-Offs of Gasoline Direct Injection Engines

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 15, 2016, Pages 8385-8392

  Zimmerman, Naomi ^a,b   Wang, Jonathan M ^a   Jeong, Cheol Heon ^a   Wallace, James S ^a   Evans, Greg J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COMMERCE; CRASHWORTHINESS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ENGINES; EXHAUST SYSTEMS (ENGINE); FUEL ECONOMY; FUELS; GASOLINE; GLOBAL WARMING; VEHICLES;

GASOLINE DIRECT INJECTION ENGINE(GDI); GASOLINE DIRECT INJECTION ENGINES; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIAL; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PARTICULATE FILTERS; PORT FUEL INJECTION ENGINES; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES;

DIRECT INJECTION;

BLACK CARBON; GASOLINE; EXHAUST GAS; PARTICULATE MATTER; SOOT;

BLACK CARBON; CLIMATE EFFECT; EMISSION INVENTORY; ENGINE; GLOBAL WARMING; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PETROLEUM; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; TEMPERATURE; TRADE-OFF; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CLIMATE; DIESEL ENGINE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EXHAUST GAS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PARTICULATE MATTER; RADIATIVE FORCING; MOTOR VEHICLE; SOOT; TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE; GASOLINE; MOTOR VEHICLES; PARTICULATE MATTER; SOOT; TEMPERATURE; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 84980378954     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b01800     Document Type: Article

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