Energy economics of automotive power generation
Conference
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OSTI ID:7126686
Replacement of 50 percent of the liquid fuels used in static industrial applications by solid fuel would reduce the crude oil offtake by 17 percent; elimination of the demand for high octane gasoline would increase the thermal efficiency of the production of road fuels by 5 percent; replacement of the gasoline engine by diesel or stratified charge engines could reduce the total consumption of automotive fuels by 20 and 10 percent, respectively, and reduce refinery intake by over 25 and 20 percent, respectively; adequate gasoline substitutes can be produced from coal using known technology, but the over-all thermal efficiency of this use of coal is unacceptable because of the 30 to 40 percent efficiency of the fuel production process and the moderate fuel economy of the gasoline engine; replacement of the gasoline engine by the diesel engine could reduce the consumption of coal for automotive purposes by 20 percent and replacement of both by the spark-assisted diesel engine could reduce consumption by 60 percent; the Stirling engine is comparable to the spark-assisted diesel but is bulky and unproven.
- OSTI ID:
- 7126686
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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