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UW Madison, ExxonMobil researchers convert alcohols to diesel-range ethers and olefins

Green Car Congress

The ethers can be used as cetane-improvers in diesel fuel, while the olefins can be hydrogenated and blended with gasoline or oligomerized and hydrogenated to jet-range paraffins. A paper on their work appears in the RSC journal Green Chemistry. The byproducts are comprised of aldehydes and unidentified species. Wittrig, E.

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CalCars and PHEVs Frequently Asked Questions

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Many continue to pay more attention to far-off hydrogen fuel cells than to this immediate solution. Fuel cell cars should be plug-in hybrids so that the fuel cell is used only for extended range, and the fuel cell stack and hydrogen storage can be smaller. We are not exploring PHEV versions of gasoline-only (non-hybrid) cars.

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