Comparison, Pollution, Standards and Universal

Carnegie study finds climate impact of particulates varies greatly depending on where the pollution originated

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AUGUST 20, 2018

Error bars in b capture the standard error. However, aerosols have a much shorter lifespan in the atmosphere than the gases responsible for global warming, resulting in an atmospheric distribution that varies by region, especially in comparison to carbon dioxide. Persad and Caldeira. This work is part of a larger $1.5-million

Climate

Climate Pollution San Diego India

Study: US counties with higher PM2.5 concentrations have more stroke deaths

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JANUARY 31, 2019

Analyzing health data and pollution monitoring information from 1,561 counties across the United States between 2005 and 2010, researchers found the yearly average for fine air pollution ranged from 7.2 The higher the poverty rate and fewer health providers in a county, the greater the health impact of high pollution.

Pollution

Pollution Honolulu Philadelphia United States

ACEEE report recommends steps toward international alignment of heavy-duty vehicle efficiency standards

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APRIL 5, 2013

A new report published by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) recommends the international harmonization of fuel efficiency and/or greenhouse gas emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks and buses. This report explores whether and how heavy-duty standards programs could be better aligned across regions.

Standards

Standards International Vehicles Fuel

Study finds some improved cookstoves may emit more black carbon pollution than traditional mud cookstoves

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APRIL 4, 2012

The first real-world, head-to-head comparison of improved cookstoves (ICs) and traditional mud stoves has found that some ICs may at times emit more of the black carbon particles that are linked to serious health and environmental concerns than traditional mud stoves or open-cook fires.

Pollution

Pollution Carbon San Diego Los Angeles

Tsinghua University provincial-level lifecycle study finds fuel-cycle criteria pollutants of EVs in China could be up to 5x those of natural gas vehicles due to China’s coal-dominant power mix

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JANUARY 12, 2013

In February 2012, the China State Council approved its first national ambient air quality standard for PM 2.5 , which will come into effect by the end of 2015. Although EVs have a greater GHG reduction benefit than CNGVs, they may increase life-cycle emissions of criteria pollutants, simply because coal is heavily involved.

Coal

Coal Pollution China Gas

Swiss team concludes that particulate filters should be mandatory for GDI engines

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MAY 24, 2017

Based on a three-year study of toxic and environmentally relevant pollutants from gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines, Swiss researchers have concluded that some GDI engines emit just as many soot particles as unfiltered diesel cars did in the past. Further, the GDI particles carry numerous carcinogenic substances.

Engine

Engine Exhaust Gasoline Diesel

EPIC: state-level renewable electricity mandates increase electricity prices up to 17% over 12 years; cost more expensive than benefit

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APRIL 30, 2019

As states take the lead in confronting climate change, a flagship policy is often Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS). —co-author Michael Greenstone, the Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC).

Renewable

Renewable Price District of Columbia Chicago

Study finds use of high cetane fuel reduces all primary pollutants under advanced diesel combustion mode

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APRIL 24, 2011

Comparison of optimized start of injection of advanced diesel combustion for brake thermal efficiency, NO x , PM, THC, and CO of diesel (open bar); HTFT (gray bar); and LTFT (black bar) fuels. THC and CO as well as NO x and PM—according to research by a team from The Pennsylvania State University. Credit: ACS, Lilik and Boehman.

Diesel

Diesel Pollution Fuel Emissions

Study Finds Environmental and Tailpipe Pollutants Benefits in Using Biodiesel in Construction Vehicles

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JULY 19, 2009

Using biodiesel in construction vehicles offers promising environmental benefits in terms of reduced tailpipe emissions as well as reductions in fuel cycle emissions of selected pollutants, according to a new study by researchers at North Carolina State University. Local urban tailpipe emissions are estimated to be: 24% lower for HC.

Pollution

Pollution Vehicles North Carolina Diesel

NOAA, partners find about 98% decline in VOCs concentrations in LA Basin over last 50 years despite 3x increase in use of gasoline and diesel

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AUGUST 9, 2012

A scatter plot of CO, as a tracer for pollution, versus CO 2 , as a tracer for the amount of combustion, for 2002 and 2010. The magnitude of the drop in VOC levels was surprising, even to researchers who expected some kind of decrease resulting from California’s longtime efforts to control vehicle pollution. ppbv/ppmv to 10.7

Los Angeles

Los Angeles Gasoline Ozone 2002

Study finds rising temperatures increase risk of unhealthy ozone levels absent sharp cuts in precursors

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MAY 5, 2014

Ozone pollution across the continental United States will become far more difficult to keep in check as temperatures rise, according to new work led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Ozone pollution also damages crops and other plants. Scenario A2 and RCP 8.5. Ozone formation.

Ozone

Ozone Climate Change Pollution Climate

Study finds that environmental impact of corn-ethanol E85 is 23% to 33% higher than that of gasoline; environmental problem-shifting

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MARCH 16, 2012

In a similar way, the full breadth of impacts attributable to conventional gasoline production, such as natural resource consumption and hazardous pollutant emissions, must also be considered in order to make balanced comparisons to biofuels. This study highlighted the environmental impacts of corn ethanol in comparison with gasoline.

Gasoline

Gasoline Water Emissions Minnesota

Study finds “markedly” high levels of diesel exhaust present in commuter trains powered by locomotives in pull-mode

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Diesel-powered commuter trains may expose their passengers to elevated levels of certain black carbon and ultrafine particles, especially in the coach directly behind the locomotive, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Toronto. A paper on the study is published in the journal Atmospheric Environment.

Exhaust

Exhaust Diesel Power Powered

UC Riverside reinforcement-learning-based real-time energy management system can improve PHEV efficiency by almost 12%

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FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering have demonstrated that a new, data-driven, reinforcement-learning-based, real-time energy management system (EMS) can improve the efficiency of current plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) by almost 12% compared to the standard, binary mode control strategy.

PHEV

PHEV Energy Plug-in Hybrid

CMU study compares lifecycle GHGs of natural gas pathways for MHDVs; MD BEVs can deliver large reductions, but diesel hard to beat for Class 8

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MAY 27, 2015

A study by Carnegie Mellon University researchers comparing life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from different natural gas pathways for medium and heavy-duty vehicles (MHDVs) found that the GHG reduction potentials of the pathways vary sharply between non-Class 8 MHDVs (e.g., refuse trucks and tractor-trailers). —Tong et al.

Gas

Gas Diesel Gas-Electric Emissions

Study suggests high-mileage light-duty fleets contribute higher emissions and emissions share than expected

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MAY 4, 2016

A study by researchers from the University of Denver and the University of Puget Sound indicates that high-mileage light-duty fleets contribute higher emissions and emissions share than expected based on their actual numbers in the fleet. In their study, Bishop et al.

Emissions

Emissions Fleet Light Taxi

Study finds high exhaust temperatures within NTE operation for heavy-duty diesels with aftertreatment systems contribute to high nanoparticle concentrations

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JANUARY 15, 2012

The particle number count under those conditions increased by more than an order of magnitude in comparison to DPF-out particle concentrations. Current 2010 USEPA emissions standards for NO x and PM are set at 0.20 The team used a MY 2007 Volvo MD11 engine compliant with USEPA 2007 emissions standards. Click to enlarge.

Exhaust

Exhaust Diesel West Virginia 2007

Study finds fleet switch from PFI to GDI engines will result in net reduction in global warming

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MAY 12, 2017

The study, by a team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, University of Georgia, Aerodyne Research, California Air Resources Board (ARB), Ohio State University, UC Berkeley, and UC San Diego is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. We estimate ozone and SOA formation potential. of the data.

Fleet

Fleet Engine Global Fuel Economy

EPIC index finds air pollution reduces global life expectancy by 1.8 years; single greatest threat to human health

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NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Fossil fuel-driven particulate air pollution cuts global average life expectancy by 1.8 years per person, according to a new pollution index and accompanying report produced by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC). billion people, live in areas where particulate pollution exceeds the WHO guideline.

Pollution

Pollution Global Chicago United States

Wall Street Report

Plug In Partners

JANUARY 26, 2006

In the 1990s, as a mechanical-engineering professor at the University of California here, Dr. Frank produced another shocker. Some cities, environmental groups and state pollution regulators have joined this " Plug-in Partners " effort. It had gobs of torque," he recalls. Frank, now 72 years old, is getting some traction: A U.S.

Gasoline-Electric

Gasoline-Electric Plug-in Plug Recharge

Electric Vehicle Project Ideas | Ph.D., MTech, MSc | Electrical, Management, Mechanical & More…

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FEBRUARY 16, 2022

pollutes the environment. Solar charging stations and Conventional charging stations (electricity from coal) comparison. Quantitative analysis of pollution in a city if we replace all the vehicles with EV. #5 Comparison of P1, P2, P3, P4 configuration of HEV using simulation studies 3. Battery manufacturing etc.

IDEA

IDEA Electric Vehicles Vehicles Electrical

First results from HEI/ACES murine study find few biologic effects from exposure to exhaust from new technology diesel engines

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APRIL 13, 2012

The study—a component of the Advanced Collaborative Engine Study (ACES)—is exposing rats and mice for 16 hours a day to emissions from a heavy duty diesel engine meeting 2007 US EPA standards that reduce emissions of fine particles and other pollutants by more than 90% from levels emitted by older engines.

Exhaust

Exhaust Diesel Engine 2007

CMU team identifies IVOCs emissions from on-road gasoline vehicles and small off-road engines as important SOA precursors

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APRIL 10, 2016

A team from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has characterized the intermediate volatility organic compound (IVOC) emissions from on-road gasoline vehicles (LDGVs) and small off-road gasoline engines (SOREs). The relationships between IVOCs and other pollutants were examined to develop methods for estimating IVOC emissions from existing data.

Gasoline

Gasoline Emissions Engine Exhaust

Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

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JULY 17, 2015

Since it can refuel from a standard household outlet and from a gasoline station, it needs no new infrastructure. He was formerly with the University of Wisconsin and Rockwell International, and holds a Ph.D. He was formerly with the University of Wisconsin and Rockwell International, and holds a Ph.D. Table of Contents.

PHEV

PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy

As Electric Car Makers Ante Up Billions, Software Is Ace in the Hole

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As a comparison , in 2011, there were only two battery electric and 29 hybrid electric vehicle models offered for sale in the US. Krovi , Michelin Endowed Chair of Vehicle Automation in the Departments of Automotive Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University, "which has led to the unraveling of the original vehicle form."

Electric Cars

Electric Cars Electrical Electric Cars

CalCars and PHEVs Frequently Asked Questions

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Despite this, a 2003 EPRI study , assuming only $2/gallon gas , zero buying incentives, and a PHEV premium of $3-$5,000 more than standard hybrids, shows that the total lifetime cost of ownership for a PHEV will be lower than that of any other vehicle type -- so the payback will be there. By then, theyll probably cost well under $1,000.

PHEV

PHEV Nickel Metal Hydride Prius EPRI

Stanford Energy Modeling Forum project confirms carbon pricing can be effective way to curb GHG emissions

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APRIL 6, 2018

The Stanford Energy Modeling Forum (EMF) was established at Stanford more than 40 years ago to bring together leading experts and decision makers from government, industry, universities, and other research organizations to study important energy and environmental issues. This study provides timely analysis for public policy debates.

Carbon

Carbon Emissions Price Tax

EV Driven

Carnegie study finds climate impact of particulates varies greatly depending on where the pollution originated

Study: US counties with higher PM2.5 concentrations have more stroke deaths

ACEEE report recommends steps toward international alignment of heavy-duty vehicle efficiency standards

Study finds some improved cookstoves may emit more black carbon pollution than traditional mud cookstoves

Tsinghua University provincial-level lifecycle study finds fuel-cycle criteria pollutants of EVs in China could be up to 5x those of natural gas vehicles due to China’s coal-dominant power mix

Swiss team concludes that particulate filters should be mandatory for GDI engines

EPIC: state-level renewable electricity mandates increase electricity prices up to 17% over 12 years; cost more expensive than benefit

Study finds use of high cetane fuel reduces all primary pollutants under advanced diesel combustion mode

Study Finds Environmental and Tailpipe Pollutants Benefits in Using Biodiesel in Construction Vehicles

NOAA, partners find about 98% decline in VOCs concentrations in LA Basin over last 50 years despite 3x increase in use of gasoline and diesel

Study finds rising temperatures increase risk of unhealthy ozone levels absent sharp cuts in precursors

Study finds that environmental impact of corn-ethanol E85 is 23% to 33% higher than that of gasoline; environmental problem-shifting

Study finds “markedly” high levels of diesel exhaust present in commuter trains powered by locomotives in pull-mode

UC Riverside reinforcement-learning-based real-time energy management system can improve PHEV efficiency by almost 12%

CMU study compares lifecycle GHGs of natural gas pathways for MHDVs; MD BEVs can deliver large reductions, but diesel hard to beat for Class 8

Study suggests high-mileage light-duty fleets contribute higher emissions and emissions share than expected

Study finds high exhaust temperatures within NTE operation for heavy-duty diesels with aftertreatment systems contribute to high nanoparticle concentrations

Study finds fleet switch from PFI to GDI engines will result in net reduction in global warming

EPIC index finds air pollution reduces global life expectancy by 1.8 years; single greatest threat to human health

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Electric Vehicle Project Ideas | Ph.D., MTech, MSc | Electrical, Management, Mechanical & More…

First results from HEI/ACES murine study find few biologic effects from exposure to exhaust from new technology diesel engines

CMU team identifies IVOCs emissions from on-road gasoline vehicles and small off-road engines as important SOA precursors

Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

As Electric Car Makers Ante Up Billions, Software Is Ace in the Hole

CalCars and PHEVs Frequently Asked Questions

Stanford Energy Modeling Forum project confirms carbon pricing can be effective way to curb GHG emissions

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