Comparative Study of Gasoline Fuel Mixture to Reduce Emissions in the Metropolitan District

Vicente Rojas-Reinoso, Janko Alvarez-Loor, Henrry Zambrano-Becerra and José Antonio Soriano ()
Additional contact information
Vicente Rojas-Reinoso: Laboratorio de Ingeniería Automotriz, Carrera de Ingeniería Automotriz-Campus Sur, Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Av. Rumichaca & Av. Morán Valverde, Quito 170146, Ecuador
Janko Alvarez-Loor: Laboratorio de Ingeniería Automotriz, Carrera de Ingeniería Automotriz-Campus Sur, Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Av. Rumichaca & Av. Morán Valverde, Quito 170146, Ecuador
Henrry Zambrano-Becerra: Laboratorio de Ingeniería Automotriz, Carrera de Ingeniería Automotriz-Campus Sur, Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Av. Rumichaca & Av. Morán Valverde, Quito 170146, Ecuador
José Antonio Soriano: Instituto de Investigación Aplicada a la Industria Aeronáutica, Escuela de Ingeniería Industrial y Aeroespacial, Campus de Excelencia Internacional en Energía y Medioambiente, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Av. Carlos III, s/n, 45071 Toledo, Spain

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 4, 1-18

Abstract: In the present investigation, the behavior of fuel consumption was studied due to the high cost of gasoline and its price increase in Ecuador in recent years, for which reason the different mixtures have been studied to obtain lower consumption. The optimum fuel mixture rate for a T18SED e-tec II engine, Multiport Electronic Fuel Injection System (MPFI) between extra gasoline, super gasoline, and ethanol was obtained on two urban roads in the city of Quito (Ecuador). For the first test, mixtures of 10% super gasoline and 90% extra gasoline were made, and so on, for the following tests: (20–80), (30–70), (40–60), (50–50), (60–40), (70–30), (80–20), and (90–10) % super and extra gasoline. Then, mixtures between super gasoline and ethanol and extra gasoline and ethanol with concentrations of 5% and 10% were made. The results showed a low consumption on Maldonado Avenue with the 20% extra and 80% super mixtures obtaining a value of 2.9 L, while the mixture that presented a higher consumption was 100% extra of 3.4 L. At the end of each test, the fuel tank was completely drained, and the engine control unit (ECU) was reset for each test. The data acquisition was carried out through an OBD II (on-board diagnostic system) installed in each of the tests.

Keywords: fuel mixture; ethanol; super gasoline; extra gasoline; emissions; urban roads; real driving (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/4/2921/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/4/2921/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:15:y:2023:i:4:p:2921-:d:1059420

Access Statistics for this article

Sustainability is currently edited by Ms. Alexandra Wu

More articles in Sustainability from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().