Exhaust and evaporative emissions tests were conducted on several methanol-and gasolinefueled vehicles. Separate samples for chromatographlc analysis of formaldehyde, methanol, and Individual hydrocarbons were collected In each of the three phases of the driving cycle and In each of the two portions of the evaporative emissions test. One vehicle, equipped with an experimental variable-fuel engine, was tested using methanol/gasoline fuel mixtures of 100, 85,50,15, and 0 percent methanol. Combustion-generated hydrocarbons were lowest using methanol fuel, and Increased several-fold as the gasoline fraction was Increased. Gasoline components In the exhaust Increased from zero as the gasoline fraction of the fuel was Increased. On the other hand, formaldehyde emissions were several times higher using methanol fuel than they were using gasoline. A dedicated methanol car and the variable-fuel car gave similar emissions patterns when they both were tested using methanol fuel. The organic-carbon composition of the exhaust was 85-90 percent methanol, 5-7 percent formaldehyde, and 3-9 percent hydrocarbons. Several cars that were tested using gasoline emitted similar distributions of hydrocarbons, even through the vehicles represented a broad range of current and developmental engine families and emissions control systems. These vehicles continue the trend of the past twenty years toward less photochemically reactive exhaust, with higher percentages of methane and total alkanes, and correspondingly lower percentages of oleflns and aromatlcs.
This paper describes the integration of a relatively complex research project into an undergraduate heat transfer course. Discussion of the project scope, techniques used to involve students, and assessment of the results are included. The project involved high temperature experimentation with a 155-mm artillery tube and a variety of artillery projectiles.
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