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Alcohol fuel
About: Alcohol fuel is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2030 publications have been published within this topic receiving 42757 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of fuel additives, not only at the scale of the engine test bed but also through chemical laboratory tests were investigated, and the results indicated that there was improved stability with certain dosages of fuel additive and that some additives were associated with reduced fuel consumption but that some resulted in higher specific fuel oil consumption levels than those for fuel oils without additives.
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01 Jan 1980
TL;DR: The ability of ethanol to improve the octane number of gasoline has diminished with the increase in the number of octane values of gasoline as mentioned in this paper, and there is no published evidence that alcohols can significantly reduce air pollution problems.
Abstract: Alcohol has been promoted and used as a motor fuel for more than 50 years. However, United States ethyl alcohol production is small compared with gasoline production. High latent heat of vaporization of alcohol makes possible some increase of power over gasoline. The heating value of alcohol is low and energy content of alcohol blends is less than that of gasoline; fuel consumption of blends is therefore increased. The ability of ethanol to improve the octane number of gasoline has diminished as the octane number of gasoline has improved. There is no published evidence that alcohols can appreciably reduce air pollution problems.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the Ozone formation behaviors of alcohols and aldehydes were investigated with the computer simulation by changing the ratio of reactants, and the effect of alcohol fuel on O 3 formation was estimated.
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27 Apr 2006TL;DR: In this article, the reformed diesel fuel is formed by passing a stream of air plasma bubbles through a liquid volume of diesel fuel to strip low molecular weight hydrocarbons from the fuel, while partially oxygenating an abundance of them as a reformate for addition to the exhaust.
Abstract: Raw diesel fuel is reformed to produce partially oxygenated hydrocarbons in the liquid fuel by use of a nonthermal plasma reactor. The reformed diesel fuel is formed by passing a stream of air plasma bubbles through a liquid volume of diesel fuel to strip low molecular weight hydrocarbons from the fuel, while partially oxygenating an abundance of them as a reformate for addition to the exhaust. This reformed diesel fuel is introduced as a sidestream into the exhaust of a diesel engine or other lean- burn power plants as reactants for selective catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides in the exhaust. Fresh fuel is added to the liquid volume as diesel reformate is stripped from it, and a portion of the stripped fuel is withdrawn from the liquid volume.
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