Real-world vehicle emissions: A summary of the third annual CRC-APRAC On-Road Vehicle Emissions Workshop

Journal Article · Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1993 · Air and Waste; (United States)

OSTI ID:6622947

Cadle, S H ^[1]; Gorse, R A ^[2]; Lawson, D R ^[3]

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1. GM NAO R D Center, Warren, MI (United States)
2. Ford Motor Co., Dearborn, MI (United States)
3. Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV (United States)

The CRC-APRAC On-Road Vehicle Emissions Workshop provided an informal atmosphere for the exchange of information on real-world vehicle emissions issues. Topics addressed included: emissions inventories; mobile source emission factor models; evaporative emissions; dynamometer studies of exhaust emissions; remote sensing studies; and tunnel studies of vehicle emissions. It is now widely accepted that emissions inventories have significantly underestimated the carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrocarbon (HC) emissions from on-road vehicles. Since these inventories are used to develop emission control strategies, it is critical that they accurately reflect on-road emissions. Research is currently being conducted by a variety of organizations to address this issue. For the past three years, the Coordinating Research Council - Air Pollution Research Advisory Committee (CRC-APRAC) has sponsored an on-road vehicle emissions workshop whose purpose is to provide an informal forum in which recent real-world vehicle emissions results can be discussed along with plans for additional studies. Thirty-six papers were presented at the third workshop, which was held in San Diego, California, on December 1-3, 1992. This summary provides an overview of conclusions from the workshop, followed by a synopsis of individual papers. The conclusions are those of the authors, and do not necessarily represent a consensus of the workshop participants.

• OSTI ID: 6622947
• Journal Information: Air and Waste; (United States), Vol. 43
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
CARBON MONOXIDE
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EVALUATION
HYDROCARBONS
VEHICLES
FIELD TESTS
AIR POLLUTION
CONTROL
REMOTE SENSING
CARBON COMPOUNDS
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