The present report documents the results of an over two-year long field test under Swedish conditions with methanol-driven automobiles with Otto-engines. The project is part of a plan drawn up in 1982 for the development of alternative fuels as part of national energy policy. The project has been implemented in collaboration with Swedish and other automobile manufacturers and oil companies. The field test has been preceded by studies and practical testing of methanol-driven automobiles within the development of methanol-fueled motor prototypes at Saab-Scania and Volvo Passenger Cars. The report is essentially a documentation of results and experiences in analyzed and abridged form and combined with examples taken from the detailed base material. This base material is documented in the appendices whose dissemination is limited to the sponsors and manufacturers. The results are documented according to the subfields; vehicular operation and maintenance, registration of driving patterns, fuel distribution, monitoring motor oil, and method development of systems for monitoring operating conditions. The external circumstances of severe winters in 84/85 and 85/86 have been favorable in terms of inducing critical conditions for methanol drive, namely, start-up and driving under conditions of (extreme) cold. The aim of the field test, to gain experience from these conditions, has been fulfilled. (ERA citation 14:011311)
Project M100 - A Test with Methanol-Fueled Vehicles in Sweden
1987
142 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
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