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AUGUST 10, 2015

Researchers at Tsinghua University in China are studying the effects of Dual-Fuel Spark Ignition (DFSI) combustion fueled with different alcohols and gasoline. Alternatively, in the second study, gasoline–alcohol DFSI is based on PFI of gasoline and DI of alcohols.). —Liu et al.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2016

A study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University has concluded that regulatory incentives for OEMs for alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs) intended to encourage a technology transition in the transportation fleet result in increased fleet-wide gasoline consumption and emissions. Click to enlarge. —Jenn et al.

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JUNE 2, 2017

The high-performance, three-way catalytic (TWC) converter is one of the workhorses of emissions reduction for gasoline engines. Professor Machida and collaborators from Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST) compared their new catalyst with two reference catalysts, CeO 2 /Fe 2 O 3 and CeO 2 /Mn 2 O 3.

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

320-390 °C, 200-420 bar) aqueous phase process which converts biomass containing cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin into a high-octane gasoline fraction. New Oil Resources licensed the technology (US Patent 6,180,845 ) in 2009 from Louisiana State University (LSU); the original developers of the process are Drs. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 1, 2013

One focus of the project will be centered on light- and heavy-duty vehicles running on gasoline/ethanol blends in order to improve engine efficiency and lower emissions. PFS with gasoline. Thus, at high load conditions which utilize high boost pressure, PFS can be used with gasoline fuel to reduce ringing and allow higher efficiency.

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APRIL 1, 2015

GREET assumes that a dedicated CNG CV and CNG HEV can achieve fuel economies that are 5% and 40% higher on an energy equivalent basis, respectively, than the reference vehicle. —luk et al. They then estimated the NPVs of climate change and human health impacts from the GHG and CAC emissions, respectively. Credit: ACS, Luk et al.

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DECEMBER 6, 2011

The NAFTC, a program of West Virginia University, has produced the Electric Drive Vehicle First Responder Safety Training, a curriculum developed under the NAFTC’s Advanced Electric Drive Vehicle Education Program, funded by the US Department of Energy. Scheduled for 6-7 Dec., Online courses will be available in 2012.

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AUGUST 22, 2017

million passenger vehicles with gasoline engines and 1.3 The team included experts from the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), the Federal Roads Office (FEDRO), Bern University of Applied Sciences and Empa. Empa’s bottom-line buying recommendation: at least Euro 6c for gasoline cars, at least Euro 6d-TEMP for diesel.

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JANUARY 5, 2012

The West Virginia University (WVU)-based National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium ( NAFTC ) has created a suite of modern technology products that put knowledge about specific electric drive and alternative fuel vehicles at the fingertips of first responders. Online courses will be available in 2012.

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JANUARY 19, 2014

In practice, “engine braking” refers to the driver’s lifting of the gas (accelerator) pedal and keeping the gear on, and it is typically used to enhance fuel economy or simply to limit or decrease a vehicle’s speed during downhill driving or deceleration. —Rönkkö et al.

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JUNE 1, 2016

The process produces a toxic byproduct referred to as black liquor—a primarily liquid mixture of pulping residues (such as lignin and hemicellulose) and inorganic chemicals from the Kraft process (sodium hydroxide and sodium sulfide, for example). Their paper appears in the journal ChemSusChem. tons of black liquor dry solids.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

A study by a team at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (Brazil) found that higher compression ratios in a spark-ignition engine improved performance of both an E22 blend (78% gasoline, 22% ethanol) as well as neat hydrous ethanol. Sodré (2010) Compression ratio effects on an ethanol/gasoline fuelled engine performance.

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JUNE 7, 2017

A new study by researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder projects the emission impacts of the widespread introduction of inexpensive and efficient electric vehicles into the US light duty vehicle (LDV) sector. Among their findings: Gasoline vehicles dominate in the BAU scenario for the entire time horizon.

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JULY 3, 2015

Given the current barriers to increasing ethanol-based biofuels (blend wall, slow growth in cellulosic biofuel production, regulatory uncertainty surrounding the RFS), transportation electrification seemingly offers a more immediate opportunity to displace gasoline. They considered three levels of GHG-intensity for US electricity supply.

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MAY 15, 2014

While natural gas can reduce greenhouse emissions when it is substituted for higher-emission energy sources, abundant shale gas is not likely to substantially alter total emissions without policies targeted at greenhouse gas reduction, according to a new study by two researchers at Duke University.

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AUGUST 16, 2016

Most of the projects will support the goals of EV Everywhere, an Energy Department program that aims to make PEVs as affordable and convenient as gasoline-powered vehicles by 2022. Ohio State University. Iowa State University. University of Pittsburgh. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Description.

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APRIL 2, 2018

Researchers at KAUST in Saudi Arabia, with colleagues from Saudi Aramco and the National University of Ireland Galway, have developed a new method for investigating the auto-ignition behavior of bioethanol-blended gasolines. Various gasoline surrogates, ranging from single to multi-components, have been proposed in the literature.

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MARCH 22, 2010

Professor George Miley of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and director of its Fusion Studies Lab, reported on progress toward a “cold fusion battery”—a small power unit that uses a low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) (i.e., Vysotskii is a scientist with Kiev National Shevchenko University in Kiev, Ukraine.

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AUGUST 2, 2013

A pair of researchers at the University of Michigan have used “big data” mining techniques to evaluate the impact of adopting plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) in the Beijing taxi fleet on life cycle greenhouse gas emissions based on the characterized individual travel patterns. g CO 2 -eq/km traveled. g CO 2 -eq/km.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Although it has a consistent quality and near-zero sulfur and heavy metals, GTL naphtha has a low octane rating, making it unsuitable for blending in gasoline. However, currently there is little knowledge available about the performance of gasolines containing GTL naphtha in spark ignition engines. —Wang et al.

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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. These were arguably the first flex-fuel vehicles.

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APRIL 17, 2014

GDCI engine was significantly better than advanced production spark injection gasoline engines, and comparable to very efficient hybrid vehicle engines at their best efficiency conditions (214 g/kWh). This early work established that gasoline-like fuels with high resistance to autoignition are preferred for PPCI. Earlier post.)

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APRIL 22, 2016

Frank (email: afrank@efficientdrivetrains.com) Dr. Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis.

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APRIL 27, 2012

The research team included members from the National University of Singapore; Stichting Deltares, The Netherlands; International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), Washington, DC; and the University of Leicester, UK. Products from WCSB Oil Sands Crudes Compared with Reference. —Miettinen et al. Chris Malins.

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MARCH 5, 2009

One standard is established for gasoline and the alternative fuels that can replace it. Reformulated gasoline mixed with corn-derived ethanol at 10% by volume and low sulfur diesel fuel represent the baseline fuels. A second similar standard is set for diesel fuel and its replacements. —ARB ISOR.

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MARCH 13, 2015

Lest we be too quick to forget whence we came, America is now 9-months into lower gasoline prices, which started their swoon the week of June 30, 2015 from a lofty national average just under $3.70, tumbling almost every subsequent week before bottoming and bouncing from $2.02 by Thomas Miller for Oilprice.com. Dr. Bernard Weinstein, Ph.D.,

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Researchers from the University of Illinois and colleagues in China investigating the performance, combustion and emission characteristics of a port fuel-injection SI engine fueled with isopropanol-n-butanol-ethanol (IBE)-gasoline blends have concluded that an IBE30 blend could be a good alternative to gasoline. —Li et al.

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APRIL 2, 2018

Interestingly, they observed, this benefit is notwithstanding the high aromaticity of the gasoline compared to GTL. Commonly referred to as Dieseline in literature, this mix of fossil fuels already has a proven track record as a PPC fuel. gasoline), and EN590 diesel as a reference fuel. 10, 20 and 50?vol.%

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MAY 24, 2012

His body of work on on the underlying the theory and algorithms for this this extends back several years to his 2008 doctoral thesis at the University of Michigan (subsequently published as a book: Real-time, self-learning identification and stochastic optimal control of advanced powertrain systems ).

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JANUARY 24, 2014

In a new study published in the journal Applied Energy , Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers found that controlled charging of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) reduces the costs of integrating the vehicles into an electricity system by 54–73% depending on the scenario.

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MAY 2, 2014

A new study by Dr. Gautam Kalghatgi and his colleagues at Saudi Aramco provides further support a pathway for significant improvements in the efficiency of a gasoline engine (i.e., Broadly, this approach is termed Gasoline Compression Ignition (GCI). Broadly, this approach is termed Gasoline Compression Ignition (GCI).

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MAY 5, 2011

A team from the University of Wisconsin and General Motors has found that high-speed gasoline direct injection compression ignition (GDICI) operation in the low temperature combustion (LTC) regime in a light-duty diesel engine is feasible. On the contrary, gasoline fuels have CN lower than 30 (or RON higher than 60).

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MAY 3, 2021

GM and other automakers are moving ahead without waiting years or decades for wide deployment of V2V and V2I, collectively referred to as V2X. DOT, NHTSA and the University of Michigan. Google, in partnership with Stanford University, has successfully had self-driving vehicles on the road since 2009.

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MAY 8, 2023

Charged : Does the bill refer to both of those options or does it leave it open? When we had that peak last year, we brought down the load to 52 gigawatts, but everything was turned on—methane gas generators, gasoline generators, everything. BMW was involved with the V2G pilot of the University of Delaware many years ago.

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MAY 12, 2012

This goal will be facilitated by fundamental research to establish the basis for new concepts, design elements and tools performed through university/industry/national laboratory partnerships. Development of low temperature combustion (LTC), learn-burn gasoline combustion and development of alternative (e.g.,

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JUNE 19, 2011

NABC is a partnership of 17 industry, national laboratory, and university members that is developing technologies to convert lignocellulosic biomass feedstocks to biofuels that are compatible with the existing transportation infrastructure. Earlier post. Hydropyrolysis.

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OCTOBER 8, 2013

A number of papers from Kalghatgi and his colleagues—and now other groups, including Tsinghua University in China and the Eindhoven University of Technology—have been published recently, exploring different aspects of this approach. impact compared to diesel or gasoline. —Chang et al. Leermakers et al.

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