Examination of the Emission of Gas-Phase Components, Including Some Not-Conventional Ones from a Parking Heater, While Increasing the Bioethanol Content of the Fuel

Péter Nagy (), Ibolya Zsoldos and György Szabados ()
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Péter Nagy: Department of Propulsion Technology, Széchenyi István University, Egyetem tér 1, H-9026 Győr, Hungary
Ibolya Zsoldos: Department of Materials Science and Technology, Széchenyi István University, Egyetem tér 1, H-9026 Győr, Hungary
György Szabados: Department of Mechatronics, Optics and Mechanical Engineering Informatics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Műegyetem rkp. 3, H-1111 Budapest, Hungary

Energies, 2023, vol. 16, issue 12, 1-25

Abstract: The air pollutant emissions of a motor vehicle do not only mean the emissions from the engine used for propelling the vehicle. Another possible source is the passenger compartment heater. In the focus of our research, we investigated the effect of mixing gasoline-powered cabin air and ethanol (E10, E30, E100 on a volumetric basis) on the emissions of the equipment. Among the pollutant components examined, there were conventional components and so called not-conventional components. The chosen length of the test was 1800 s, while the intake air parameters temperature (t in ) and relative humidity (h) have been kept constant (t in = 15 °C, h = 30%). Bioethanol mixing has a significant reducing effect on NO x (oxides of nitrogen) and CO 2 (carbon dioxide). As for the components CO (carbon monoxide), THC (total hydrocarbons), CH 4 (methane) and N 2 O (nitrous oxide), the values of the components reach usable values only in the start-up and burnout phases, while in the stable-operation phase, their values are outside the limit of detectability. A small part of THC is only CH 4 ; a more significant part is NMHC (non-methane hydrocarbons). The results of the developed vehicle fleet model for calculating the GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions of a vehicle fleet equipped with such a device showed that the fleet’s GHG emissions are less than 1% of the annual emissions from the combustion of transport fuel.

Keywords: fuel operated parking heater; gasoline; bioethanol; emission; gas phase pollutants (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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