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Chemical and biological characterization of exhaust emissions from two bioethanol fuels containing different diesel ignition improvers

Abstract

The report describes the results of an investigation on the potential environmental and health impacts of exhaust emissions from ethanol fuel containing two different diesel ignition improvers. Emission from these two ethanol fuels were compared with respect to their contents of regulated and unregulated exhaust components, affinity of binding the dioxin receptor and mutagenicity of compounds associated with particles and the semi-volatile phase, risk estimates of exhaust components judged to be carcinogenic. Emissions from fuel B contained smaller amounts of CO, particles, ethylene and total particle-associated PAH, but higher amounts of butadiene, than did emissions from fuel A. With respect to the other components measured, the fuels were approximately the same. In general, the emissions give similar responses in the biological tests, with, perhaps, a tendency to lower values of S9-dependent mutagenicity for fuel B. From the point of view of cancer risk, these two ignition improvers are, within the limits of uncertainty, approximately equivalent. The somewhat higher emission of butadiene from fuel B may be balanced by the lower amounts of particles and ethylene emitted from this fuel. 38 refs, 37 figs, 12 tabs
Authors:
Westerholm, R; [1]  Toernqvist, M; Ehrenberg, L; [2]  Rannug, U [3] 
  1. Stockholm Univ., Dept. of Analytical Chemistry (Sweden)
  2. Stockholm Univ., Dept. of Radiobiology (Sweden)
  3. Stockholm Univ., Dept. of Genetic and Cellular Toxicology (Sweden)
Publication Date:
Dec 29, 1994
Product Type:
Technical Report
Report Number:
KFB-92-72-742
Reference Number:
SCA: 330800; 092000; PA: SWD-95:007072; EDB-95:043617; SN: 95001337628
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 29 Dec 1994
Subject:
33 ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS; 09 BIOMASS FUELS; ETHANOL FUELS; EXHAUST GASES; DIESEL ENGINES; BUSES; FUEL ADDITIVES; IGNITION; AIR POLLUTION; MUTAGENS; CARCINOGENESIS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; BUTADIENE; 330800; 092000; ALTERNATIVE FUELS; COMBUSTION
OSTI ID:
10122134
Research Organizations:
Swedish Transport and Communications Research Board, Stockholm (Sweden)
Country of Origin:
Sweden
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: ON: DE95744983; TRN: SE9507072
Availability:
OSTI; NTIS
Submitting Site:
SWD
Size:
76 p.
Announcement Date:
Jun 30, 2005

Citation Formats

Westerholm, R, Toernqvist, M, Ehrenberg, L, and Rannug, U. Chemical and biological characterization of exhaust emissions from two bioethanol fuels containing different diesel ignition improvers. Sweden: N. p., 1994. Web.
Westerholm, R, Toernqvist, M, Ehrenberg, L, & Rannug, U. Chemical and biological characterization of exhaust emissions from two bioethanol fuels containing different diesel ignition improvers. Sweden.
Westerholm, R, Toernqvist, M, Ehrenberg, L, and Rannug, U. 1994. "Chemical and biological characterization of exhaust emissions from two bioethanol fuels containing different diesel ignition improvers." Sweden.
@misc{etde_10122134,
title = {Chemical and biological characterization of exhaust emissions from two bioethanol fuels containing different diesel ignition improvers}
author = {Westerholm, R, Toernqvist, M, Ehrenberg, L, and Rannug, U}
abstractNote = {The report describes the results of an investigation on the potential environmental and health impacts of exhaust emissions from ethanol fuel containing two different diesel ignition improvers. Emission from these two ethanol fuels were compared with respect to their contents of regulated and unregulated exhaust components, affinity of binding the dioxin receptor and mutagenicity of compounds associated with particles and the semi-volatile phase, risk estimates of exhaust components judged to be carcinogenic. Emissions from fuel B contained smaller amounts of CO, particles, ethylene and total particle-associated PAH, but higher amounts of butadiene, than did emissions from fuel A. With respect to the other components measured, the fuels were approximately the same. In general, the emissions give similar responses in the biological tests, with, perhaps, a tendency to lower values of S9-dependent mutagenicity for fuel B. From the point of view of cancer risk, these two ignition improvers are, within the limits of uncertainty, approximately equivalent. The somewhat higher emission of butadiene from fuel B may be balanced by the lower amounts of particles and ethylene emitted from this fuel. 38 refs, 37 figs, 12 tabs}
place = {Sweden}
year = {1994}
month = {Dec}
}