 Performance investigation of passenger vehicle fueled by propanol/gasoline blend according to a city driving cycleM. Mourad and Khaled R.M. Mahmoud Energy, 2018, vol. 149, issue C, 741-749 Abstract: The aim of this work is to evaluate the performance of a gasoline engine using different fuel blends of propanol/gasoline. Set of laboratory tests were carried out to investigate the engine performance using four-stroke petrol engine under different operating conditions. The influence of various fuel blends of propanol/gasoline on the engine fuel consumption and its pollutants emission was investigated. The engine maps (fuel consumption & emissions) were used in vehicle simulation code so that the road vehicle performance within the cities according to a standard driving cycle could be determined. The results indicated that the use of propanol/gasoline fuel blend can improve the fuel economy by 2.84% for the blend ratio (propanol/gasoline 15%). Moreover, it decreases the pollutants emission of vehicle engine, especially hydrocarbon, carbon monoxide by 14.18% and 10.87% respectively. Also, the simulation results indicated that the vehicle fuel consumption is improved and the pollutants emissions of for carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon are decreased. Keywords: Propanol/gasoline blend; Engine performance; Vehicle performance; Driving cycle (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:energy:v:149:y:2018:i:c:p:741-749 DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2018.02.099 Access Statistics for this article Energy is currently edited by Henrik Lund and Mark J. Kaiser More articles in Energy from Elsevier |
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