Future prospects for compression ignition fuel in California : fuel-related implications of possible pathways to mitigation of public health threats.
This paper documents methods and results of an investigation of the options for and year 2010 consequences of possible new limitations on the use of diesel fuel in California, USA. California's Air Resources Board will undertake a risk management process to determine steps necessary to protect the health and safety of the public from carcinogenic species resident on diesel combustion exhaust particles. Environmental activist groups continue to call for the elimination of diesel fuel in California and other populous states. It is the declared intention of CARB not to ban or restrict diesel fuel, per se, at this time. Thus, two ''mid-course'' strategies now appear feasible: (1) Increased penetration of natural gas, LPG, and possibly lower alcohols into the transportation fuels market, to the extent that some Cl applications would revert to spark-ignition (SI) engines. (2) New specifications requiring diesel fuel reformulation based on more detailed investigation of exhaust products of individual diesel fuel constituents.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab., IL (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- US Department of Energy (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-31109-ENG-38
- OSTI ID:
- 11752
- Report Number(s):
- ANL/ES/CP-98738; TRN: AH200118%%272
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 8th International Symposium Transport and Air Pollution, Graz (AT), 05/31/1999--06/02/1999; Other Information: PBD: 8 Apr 1999
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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