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NREL study probes emissions impact of butanol-gasoline blends in light-duty vehicles

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In the study, published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology , they splash-blended certification gasoline with alcohols to produce four blends: ethanol (16 vol%); n-butanol (17 vol%); i-butanol (21 vol%); and an i-butanol (12 vol%)/ethanol (7 vol%) mixture.

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