Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 26, 2013
Summary of significant emissions results from the fuel testing. Given equivalent deployment of butanols and ethanol, the results suggest emissions of unburned alcohols would decrease, but carbonyl emissions would increase; some of these compounds have poorly understood health effects, they note. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
MAY 23, 2010
RVPs (predicted DVPE) of single- and dual-alcohol blends in gasoline with different relative proportions of ethanol and 1-butanol. It is also a critical factor in meeting evaporative emission requirements. Guide to Federal and State Summer RVP Standards for Conventional Gas Only (US EPA). Credit: ACS, Andersen et al.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 30, 2009
d) further provides for alcohol blends as follows: Special provisions for alcohol blends. (1) In February, 2009, the US EPA granted Renergie, Inc. Ethanol (C 2 H 5 OH), otherwise known as ethyl alcohol, alcohol, or grain spirit, is a clear, colorless, flammable oxygenated hydrocarbon with a boiling point of 78.5 °C
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