Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2011

ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company has filed a US patent application (# 20100326387 , published 30 December 2010) on methods using a wide range of fuel-alcohol blends to expand the operating envelope of engines operating in advanced combustion modes.

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Alcohol Blend Fuel Range Exhaust 199

Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2014

The alternative fuel types to be addressed under this FOA are specified by the Energy Policy Act of 1992 and are: Methanol, ethanol, and other alcohols. Blends of 85% or more of alcohol with gasoline. Natural gas and liquid fuels domestically produced from natural gas. Liquefied petroleum gas (propane).

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Alcohol Blend Alternative Fuels Fuel Vehicles 240

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2019

The blendstocks all have the potential to reduce life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions by at least 60 percent. Six of these blendstocks had the fewest significant practical barriers to adoption and use: di-isobutylene; ethanol; isobutanol; n-propanol; isopropanol; and a fusel alcohol blend.

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Engine Alcohol Blend Idaho Davis 207

Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2020

Of these 10 blendstocks, six were assessed to have the fewest significant practical barriers to adoption which include alcohols and an olefine (alkene): di-isobutylene, ethanol, a fusel alcohol blend, isobutanol, n-propanol, and isopropanol. What Will Work in the Real World?

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Alcohol Blend Fuel Engine Fuel Economy 243

Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2014

The Energy Policy Act of 1992 defined these fuels as alternative fuels: Methanol, ethanol, and other alcohols. Blends of 85% or more of alcohol with gasoline. Natural gas and liquid fuels domestically produced from natural gas. Liquefied petroleum gas (propane). Coal-derived liquid fuels. Electricity.

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Alternative Fuels Alcohol Blend Fuel Vehicles 231

Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2019

Much of the Co-Optima research is focused on blendstocks which can be produced from a wide spectrum of domestic resources including renewable, non-food, domestic biomass such as forestry and agricultural waste, as well as petroleum or natural gas.

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Alcohol Blend Fuel Economy Engine Fuel 170

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. Nielsen (2010) Vapor Pressures of Alcohol-Gasoline Blends. Guide to Federal and State Summer RVP Standards for Conventional Gas Only (US EPA). Credit: ACS, Andersen et al.

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Alcohol Blend Gasoline Ozone Fuel 210