Life cycle inventories of conventional and alternative automobile fuel/propulsion systems: Summary and conclusions

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Lave, Lester B ^a   MacLean, H ^a   Lankey, R ^a   Joshi, S ^a   McMichael, F ^a   Horvath, A ^a   Hendrickson, C ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE FUELS; BIOMASS; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMBUSTION; COMBUSTION EQUIPMENT; COMPRESSED NATURAL GAS; DIESEL ENGINES; ETHANOL; ETHANOL FUELS; FOSSIL FUELS; FUEL CELLS; FUEL ECONOMY; GASOLINE; GREENHOUSE GASES; HYBRID VEHICLES; LIFE CYCLE; NATURAL GAS VEHICLES; URBAN TRANSPORTATION;

CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS; COMPRESSED NATURAL GASSES (CNG); ENVIRONMENTAL EMISSIONS; FUEL CELL VEHICLES; GREENHOUSE GASES (GHG); LIFE CYCLE INVENTORY; LOW-SULFUR DIESEL; PERSONAL TRANSPORTATION;

DIRECT INJECTION;

EID: 85072485881     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2000-01-1504     Document Type: Conference Paper

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