Simultaneous measurements of cold-start/warm-up driveability and tailpipe emissions on a chassis dynamometer were made at 5°C using four late-model vehicles. Two fuels wore used: a low driveability index (DI) fuel containing 11% MTBE and 29% aromatics, and a high DI fuel with no MTBE and 43% aromatics. Tailpipe hydrocarbon emissions and total weighted driveability demerits (TWDs) both correlated with the fuel used; both increased significantly when high-DI / no-MTBE fuel was used. A strong linear relation exists between TWDs and simultaneously measured tailpipe hydrocarbon emissions. CO and NOx emissions did not correlate with fuel composition.
Simultaneous Measurements of Driveability and Emissions at Cool Ambient Temperatures
Sae Technical Papers
International Fuels & Lubricants Meeting & Exposition ; 1994
1994-10-01
Conference paper
English
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