Engine efficiency improvements enabled by ethanol fuel blends in a GDI VVA flex fuel engine

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Moore, Wayne ^a   Foster, Matthew ^a   Hoyer, Kevin ^a  

^a DELPHI CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR INTAKES; COMPRESSION RATIO (MACHINERY); EFFICIENCY; ENGINES; ETHANOL; ETHANOL FUELS; EVAPORATIVE COOLING SYSTEMS; FUEL ECONOMY; INTAKE VALVES;

ETHANOL FUEL BLENDS; EVAPORATIVE COOLING; GASOLINE DIRECT INJECTION; IMPROVING EFFICIENCY; INTAKE VALVE CLOSINGS; LATE INTAKE VALVE CLOSINGS (LIVC); SIMULTANEOUS REDUCTION; UTILIZATION OF FUEL;

DIRECT INJECTION;

EID: 85072502685     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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