The traveler attended the 8th international symposium on alcohol fuels in Tokyo, Japan, and presented a paper on results from the Department of Energy's Federal Methanol Fleet. Considerable progress has been made in the engine technology for alcohol fuels in the two years since the last symposium. Flexible-fuel vehicles are prominent in new demonstrations, and methanol-fueled diesel engines are being used in a number of heavy-duty vehicle applications. Environment and urban air quality considerations have become the impetus for continued development of alcohol-fueled vehicle technology in the absence of demonstrated economic advantages for alcohols. Following the symposium, the traveler participated in an International Energy Agency (IEA) committee meeting on alcohol fuels, also in Tokyo. Participating countries were Canada, Japan, Italy, Sweden, and the USA; observers were present from Finland and the Federal Republic of Germany. In this meeting, progress on three annexes (studies) was presented and discussed, and the terms for continuation of those annexes were discussed. All three annexes are being continued, and further progress will be presented at the next committee meeting in June 1989 at Vancouver, Canada.


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    Titel :

    USDOE's (US Department of Energy's) Federal Methanol Fleet Report to the International Symposium on Alcohol Fuels: Foreign Trip Report, November 10, 1988-November 23, 1988


    Beteiligte:
    R. N. McGill (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1988


    Format / Umfang :

    15 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch