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Evaporative emissions from gasolines and alcohol-containing gasolines with closely matched volatilities

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OSTI ID:6813106
Alcohol-gasoline blends have attracted considerable attention for a variety of reasons, including their higher evaporative emissions compared with gasolines. To better understand the reasons for higher evaporative emissions with blends and to determine if blends with similar volatility (closely matched Reid vapor pressure and distillation temperatures) to gasoline would have equivalent evaporative emissions, experimental and modelling studies were undertaken. Evaporative emissions with alcohol-gasoline blends were nearly equal to or slightly lower than corresponding emissions with gasolines of similar volatility characteristics.
Research Organization:
Fuels and Lubricants Dept., General Motors Research Labs.
OSTI ID:
6813106
Report Number(s):
CONF-861041-
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English