Ethanol–electric propulsion as a sustainable technological alternative for urban buses in Brazil

Sampaio, Marcelo Regattieri; Rosa, Luiz Pinguelli; D’Agosto, Márcio de Almeida

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2005.11.007

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“…116 Th is approach would work toward ensuring the feasibility and possible introduction of this greener technology more widely, ushering in an alternative that is more friendly to mankind and the to environment. 121…”

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Direct use of vegetable oil and animal fat as alternative fuel in internal combustion engine

Mondal¹,

Basu

Balasubramanian³

2008

Biofuels Bioprod Bioref

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Gradual depletion of world petroleum reserves and the impact of environmental pollution of increasing exhaust emissions lead to the search for a suitable alternative fuels for diesel engines. The substitution of conventional fuels (gasoline, diesel) by renewable biofuels is considered a potential way to reduce pollution and to support the sustainable development of a country. Direct use of vegetable oil and animal fat is a promising alternative to solve these problems. An exhaustive review of the experiments in this area, carried out by several researchers in last three decades, is presented here. Different problems associated with the direct use of vegetable oil and animal fat and potential solutions from both public and private sectors are discussed. Some engine manufacturers have started to launch full-warranty engines with vegetable oil as fuel. It is expected that the competitive engine market will witness more intense research, resulting in the launch of more vegetable-oil engines with full warranties. The steep rise in food prices in recent years is concerning policy-makers and has raised the old 'food vs fuel' debate. It has been concluded that vegetable oil can probably only substitute small to medium portions of petroleum-based fuel due to future severe land-usage competition from food sector. This calls for intense research initiatives into the production of suitable fuel from non-edible vegetable oil, grown in wasteland. In this regard, genetic engineering may prove to be extremely effective in developing 'designer fuel'.

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confidence: 99%

Direct use of vegetable oil and animal fat as alternative fuel in internal combustion engine

Mondal¹,

Basu

Balasubramanian³

2008

Biofuels Bioprod Bioref

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“…Previous research and studies on different kinds of renewable fuels such as raw vegetable oil, waste cooking oil, biodiesel, methanol and ethanol. The first three are able to be applied to diesel engines [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] and the last two are mostly applied to petrol engines [9][10][11][12]. Ethanol is regarded as a kind of renewable fuel because it can be made from many kinds of raw materials such as corn, maize, sugar beets, sugar cane, cassava, etc.…”

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Experimental investigation on the performance and emissions of a diesel engine fuelled with ethanol–diesel blends

Huang

Wang

et al. 2009

Applied Thermal Engineering

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“…Gasohol fuels can be utilized with lesser or no modifications in the presentday gasoline IC engines [5]. Alcohols, for example, Ethanol and Methanol blends are utilized as an alternate fuel in different IC engines [6,7]. Ethanol has been acknowledged as an elective fuel for the past 35 years in Brazil [8,9].…”

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An Experimental Investigation on Regulated and Unregulated Emissions of a Gasohol Fueled SI Engine with a Novel Three Way Catalytic Converter

Gunasekaran¹,

Sugavaneswaran²,

Ramakrishnan³

2020

JESA

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Alcohol blended with gasoline is generally termed as Gasohol. Gasohol fuel will reduce Carbon monoxide (CO), Nitrous oxide (NOx), Hydro carbon (HC) emissions and it will increase Carbon dioxide (CO2). The regulated and unregulated emissions raise with increase in the Ethanol percentage of the fuel. For the reduction of both regulated and unregulated emissions new catalyst (Vanadium Pentoxide/Cobalt oxide) were coated over the metal substrate of the conventional catalytic converter. The performance of Vanadium Pentoxide/Cobalt oxide coated Three-way catalytic converter (TWC) and emissions test on a single cylinder four stroke petrol engine was conducted on the both regulated and unregulated emissions. The recorded emissions results were compared with conventional and Vanadium Pentoxide/Cobalt oxide coated catalytic converter. The experimental results suggest that Vanadium Pentoxide/Cobalt oxide coated catalytic converter reduces 55%, 38% and 45% of HC, CO and NOx respectively. The reduction in unregulated emissions like acetaldehyde, acrolein, propionaldehyde and paraldehyde was reduced by 51%, 48%, 44% and 70% due to Three-way catalytic converter respectively.

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Ethanol–electric propulsion as a sustainable technological alternative for urban buses in Brazil

Cited by 25 publications

References 5 publications

Direct use of vegetable oil and animal fat as alternative fuel in internal combustion engine

Direct use of vegetable oil and animal fat as alternative fuel in internal combustion engine

Experimental investigation on the performance and emissions of a diesel engine fuelled with ethanol–diesel blends

An Experimental Investigation on Regulated and Unregulated Emissions of a Gasohol Fueled SI Engine with a Novel Three Way Catalytic Converter

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