Energy, Gasoline, Ozone and Universal

UK researchers report that alcohols in windshield washer fluid are major unreported source of VOCs emissions from cars, including EVs

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JUNE 8, 2023

In a recent open-access paper published in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology , researchers from the University of York report that alcohols in windshield washer fluid account for a larger fraction of real-world vehicle emissions than previous estimates have suggested. Cliff et al.

Emissions

Emissions Exhaust Cars Ozone

São Paulo study finds concentration of ultrafine particulates rose by 1/3 in switch from ethanol to gasoline

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JULY 17, 2017

Geiger and Alberto Salvo, an associate professor of economics at the National University of Singapore, led the study—their second with São Paulo big data. Officials, Geiger said, will need to weigh the increase in ozone against the decrease in nanoparticles when ethanol is used. are not regulated.

Gasoline

Gasoline Singapore Brazil Ozone

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

Environmental impacts of gasoline and E85. eutrophication; ET = ecological toxicity; FEC = fossil energy consumption; WU = water use; LO = land occupation; “The rest” includes acidification; smog formation; ozone layer depletion; and human health effects. Error bar shows regional variations for E85. GW = global warming; Eut.

Gasoline

Gasoline Water Emissions Minnesota

Study: consumer products overtake transportation as largest source of VOCs air pollution in cities

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The results, published in an open-access paper in the journal Science , suggest that the focus of efforts to mitigate ozone formation and toxic chemical burdens need to be adjusted, the authors suggested. Gasoline is stored in closed, hopefully airtight, containers and the VOCs in gasoline are burned for energy.

Pollution

Pollution Transportation Production Los Angeles

Transient Plasma Systems says advances are bringing plasma ignition technology closer to commercialization

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

Advanced ignition technologies, such as those offered by TPS, have been widely recognized as enablers to achieving higher combustion efficiency and lower emissions for gasoline-powered engines. The keys to commercialization have been demonstrating cost, size and optimized energy consumption in line with automotive requirements.

Commercial

Commercial Los Angeles Exhaust Ozone

Researchers describe the “where” and “when” of life cycle emissions from gasoline and ethanol in the US

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OCTOBER 11, 2012

Researchers from the University of Minnesota have produced a spatially and temporally explicit life cycle inventory (LCI) of air pollutants from gasoline, ethanol derived from corn grain, and ethanol from corn stover for the contiguous US (the lower 48 states). Dashed lines show US average emissions. Credit: ACS, Tessum et al.

Gasoline

Gasoline Emissions Gasoline-Electric Pollution

Study uncovers role of longer-chain unburned hydrocarbon emissions from diesels in London air pollution; calls for regulatory shift

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

The study found that 60% of the winter primary hydrocarbon hydroxyl radical reactivity in London is from those diesel-related hydrocarbons; the authors predicted that the longer-chain HCs contribute up to 50 % of the ozone production potential in London.

London

London Pollution Diesel Emissions

Tohoku team finds swirling ammonia in combustion chambers can help reduce NO emissions

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OCTOBER 15, 2018

Researchers at Tohoku University in Japan have identified a way to reduce harmful NO emissions produced by ammonia fuel during combustion. Nitric oxide is known to be harmful to human health, contributes to ozone depletion, and when it reacts with other compounds, contributes to acid rain and atmospheric warming.

Emissions

Emissions Hydrogen Fuel Global

Researchers report on potential long-range atmospheric emissions impacts of increased ethanol fuel use in North America

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JULY 28, 2012

Ethanol is emitted to the atmosphere by both natural and anthropogenic processes; examples of the latter include industrial processes, biomass combustion and use as a biofuel mixed with gasoline. This is accompanied by a modest regional decrease in surface ozone (of order 1%). Numbers inset give the total North American ethanol source.

North America

North America America Emissions Fuel

Study finds air quality models significantly underestimate traffic as source of NOx in Europe

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JUNE 1, 2017

Traffic contributes more to NO x emissions in Europe than previously thought, according to a new study by a team at the University of Innsbruck. Generally, different combustion and exhaust treatment characteristics result in significantly higher NO x /CO 2 emission ratios for diesel powered cars than for gasoline. —Karl et al.

Europe

Europe Diesel Emissions Pollution

UC Davis Begins $2.8M Studies on Impacts of Escaped Nitrogen

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JUNE 13, 2009

University of California, Davis researchers will receive $2.8 Farm machines burning oil, gasoline and diesel release nitrogen to the air. 500,000 from the California Energy Commission and $350,000 from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation to Johan Six for new research on nitrous oxide emissions in various farming systems.

Davis

Davis Escape Ozone California

Study Finds Current Swedish Biofuels Offer Major Climate Benefits; Biogas from Manure the Best

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MAY 25, 2010

A study by researchers at Lund University in Sweden found that Swedish biofuels produce between 65 and 148% less greenhouse gas emissions than gasoline and diesel, even when direct and indirect land use changes are taken into account. Pål Börjesson, researcher in Environment and Energy Systems at Lund University.

Climate

Climate Waste Climate Change Sweden

Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

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AUGUST 30, 2009

In 1975, General Ernesto Geisel, then-president of Brazil, ordered the country’s gasoline supply mixed with 10% ethanol. The level was raised to 25% over the next five years, which was intended to maintain a constant Brazilian gasoline supply for an ever-increasing demand.

Transportation

Transportation Fuel Renewable Gasoline-Electric

Study Finds Controlling Soot May Be Fastest Method to Reduce Arctic Ice Loss and Global Warming; Second-Leading Cause of Global Warming After CO2

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JULY 29, 2010

Jacobson at Stanford University. However, climate models to date have mischaracterized the effects of soot in the atmosphere, according to Jacobson, director of Stanford’s Atmosphere/Energy Program. 1990; Anisimov, 2007] and chemical production of ozone in already-polluted locations [Jacobson, 2008b]. Dessler et al.,

Global

Global Ozone CO2 Pollution

The importance of considering non-exhaust traffic emissions; the role of EVs

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MAY 2, 2016

As reported earlier here ( earlier post ) a recent literature review by a team from the University of Edinburgh (Timmers et al. EVs were the best alternative to diesel and gasoline vehicles across all categories. The role of EVs. emissions, EVs deliver only a negligible reduction in emissions. in Belgium. Hooftman et al.

Exhaust

Exhaust Emissions Belgium Gasoline-Electric

Modelling the Impact of PHEVs on Ozone in Denver

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JULY 18, 2010

Researchers at the University of Colorado, Boulder and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) modeled the emissions impact had plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) replaced light duty gasoline vehicles in the Denver, Colorado area in summer 2006. Brinkman et al. Brinkman et al. Brinkman, Paul Denholm, Michael P.

Denver

Denver Ozone PHEV Colorado

Study of Vapor Pressures of Gasoline-Alcohol Blends Finds That Dual-Alcohol Blends Can Result in RVPs Identical to That of Gasoline

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MAY 23, 2010

RVPs (predicted DVPE) of single- and dual-alcohol blends in gasoline with different relative proportions of ethanol and 1-butanol. As part of the study, they demonstrated a simple method to prepare dual-alcohol-gasoline blends with Reid vapor pressures (RVPs) “ indistinguishable ” from that of the base gasoline.

Alcohol Blend

Alcohol Blend Gasoline Ozone Fuel

National Academies release third review of the 21st Century Truck Partnership

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

While early R&D was largely component-based, as a result of US Department of Energy (DOE) American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds in 2009, 21CTP was able to fund four SuperTruck projects. These projects have brought together a wide variety of companies, the national laboratories, and universities.

MPG

MPG Miles 2009 Fuel

Researchers Engineer Yeast to Produce Methyl Halides from Biomass; Precursors for Biohydrocarbon Fuels

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APRIL 22, 2009

Researchers at the University of California San Francisco have engineered the industrial yeast S. ZSM-5 and SAPO-34) have been used to convert methyl halides to products including gasoline, olefins, aromatics, alcohols and ethers. bio-gasoline—in a two-step process. fermentans for carbon and energy, and A.

Engine

Engine Fuel San Francisco Convert

Researchers Determine Process Through Which Hydrocarbon Compounds Emitted by Trees Form Aerosols, With Impact on Human Health and Climate

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AUGUST 9, 2009

Isoprene, a five-carbon diene formed naturally in plants and animals and a precursor of ozone, contributes more than 40% of these emissions. There is much more isoprene emitted to the atmosphere than all of the gases (gasoline, industrial chemicals) emitted by human activities, with the important exceptions of methane and carbon dioxide.

Climate

Climate New Zealand Denmark 2009

Ioniq 6 review; Supercharger cuts; Toyota and Ram fuel-cell trucks: The Week in Reverse

Baua Electric

MAY 12, 2024

and China could contribute to a significant cut in gasoline demand in 2024. Although with many of these companies recast as diversified, greener “energy companies,” the extra pollution might not be the image they’re looking for. What’s more, the chemicals intended to curb a gasoline-fueled fire might not even be relevant in EVs.

Toyota

Toyota Fuel Pollution Hydrogen

EV Driven

UK researchers report that alcohols in windshield washer fluid are major unreported source of VOCs emissions from cars, including EVs

São Paulo study finds concentration of ultrafine particulates rose by 1/3 in switch from ethanol to gasoline

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

Study: consumer products overtake transportation as largest source of VOCs air pollution in cities

Transient Plasma Systems says advances are bringing plasma ignition technology closer to commercialization

Researchers describe the “where” and “when” of life cycle emissions from gasoline and ethanol in the US

Study uncovers role of longer-chain unburned hydrocarbon emissions from diesels in London air pollution; calls for regulatory shift

Tohoku team finds swirling ammonia in combustion chambers can help reduce NO emissions

Researchers report on potential long-range atmospheric emissions impacts of increased ethanol fuel use in North America

Study finds air quality models significantly underestimate traffic as source of NOx in Europe

UC Davis Begins $2.8M Studies on Impacts of Escaped Nitrogen

Study Finds Current Swedish Biofuels Offer Major Climate Benefits; Biogas from Manure the Best

Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

Study Finds Controlling Soot May Be Fastest Method to Reduce Arctic Ice Loss and Global Warming; Second-Leading Cause of Global Warming After CO2

The importance of considering non-exhaust traffic emissions; the role of EVs

Modelling the Impact of PHEVs on Ozone in Denver

Study of Vapor Pressures of Gasoline-Alcohol Blends Finds That Dual-Alcohol Blends Can Result in RVPs Identical to That of Gasoline

National Academies release third review of the 21st Century Truck Partnership

Researchers Engineer Yeast to Produce Methyl Halides from Biomass; Precursors for Biohydrocarbon Fuels

Researchers Determine Process Through Which Hydrocarbon Compounds Emitted by Trees Form Aerosols, With Impact on Human Health and Climate

Ioniq 6 review; Supercharger cuts; Toyota and Ram fuel-cell trucks: The Week in Reverse

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