Effective January 1, 1996, a 1990 Federal Clean Air Act Amendment banned the sale of leaded fuels for on-road vehicles but exempted the sale of leaded fuels for off-road use, such as aircraft, racing cars, farm equipment, and marine engines. This has resulted in the general aviation community becoming one of the largest domestic consumers of leaded fuels. With environmental pressures increasing worldwide against the use of leaded fuels and lead scavenging agents, the future status of the Environmental Protection Agency exemption for general aviation is uncertain and is increasingly a subject of debate. For more than a decade, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) William J. Hughes Technical Center has worked closely with aircraft manufacturers, engine manufacturers, petroleum producers, chemical companies, universities, regulatory agencies, and the Aircraft Owner and Pilot Association through both the Coordinating Research Council (CRC) and the American Society for Testing of Materials (ASTM) to facilitate the development of a safe, high-octane, unleaded aviation gasoline for spark ignition, piston aircraft engines.
Full-Scale Engine Knock Tests of 30 Unleaded, High-Octane Blends
2004
318 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Combustion & Ignition , Fuels , Transportation , Reciprocation & Rotating Combustion Engines , Engines , Motor vehicles , Blends , Aviation gasoline , Unleaded gasoline , Automotive fuels , Aviation fuels , Fuel composition , Engine performance , Mixtures , Spark ignition engines , Piston engines , Tests , Unleaded fuels , Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) , Coordinating Research Council (CRC) , American Society for Testing of Materials (ASTM) , Clean Air Act , On-road vehicles , Off-road vehicles , High-octane gasoline
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