Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2013

They found that total particulate gravimetric mass collected over the engine test cycle was more than 2 times higher for B0 than for B20 fuel. Particle number distributions aggregated over one example drive cycle indicate a unimodal B0 distribution centered at 51 nm, but a B20 distribution with a smaller diameter mode at 32.2

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B0 Diesel Emissions Exhaust 210

Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2017

However, the relative toxicity of biodiesel emissions compared to petroleum diesel remains unclear. nmol/min/mg PM for B0 and B100, respectively, and from 22.6 ± 4.5 There is growing consensus that PM toxicity is linked to the formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) on PM and the subsequent oxidative stress induced in cells.

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B0 Diesel Exhaust Vermont 186

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

A team at the University of Birmingham reports that a blend of 33% v/v of butanol in EN228 commercial gasoline containing 5% of ethanol (B33) reduces GDI (gasoline direct injection) engine-out carbonaceous emissions, while maintaining similar levels of NO x emissions when compared to standard gasoline combustion at low and medium engine loads.

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Gasoline Emissions Engine B0 170

Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2010

Blending jatropha biodiesel (JBD) with Fischer-Tropsch synthetic diesel (FT) results in lower CO, THC, smoke and PM emissions compared to neat FT, according to a study by researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels.

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B0 Pollution Exhaust Diesel 199

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2009

All biofuels must meet high standards for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions over their entire lifecycles (growing, processing, and combustion) in order to qualify for the content mandate. However, the EPA’s analysis of lifecycle emissions from biofuels are based on a model whose calculations are highly dependent on vague assumption.

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Massachusetts Waste Oil Diesel 225

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2009

When used in diesel engines, biodiesel usually exhibits several combustion-related advantages, including reductions in CO, UHC and PM emissions, as well as a net CO 2 reduction. The ability to produce emission and noise decreases were subsequently leveraged to produce BSFC reductions. Tags: Biodiesel Diesel Emissions Engines.

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Diesel Emissions B0 Exhaust 186