California would require that NOx emissions from medium- and heavy-duty trucks be cut by about 90 percent relative to today’s cleanest diesel. India and China mostly do not use diesel cleanup systems, ...

The use of alcohol as fuel for internal combustion engines is developed from-a historical perspective to present-day technology. Methods of producing the common fuel alcohols, methanol and ethanol, ...

THE special committee on “Alcohol Fuel and Engines” of the Australian Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Science and Industry has presented its first report. The need for such an investigation arises ...

In the book "Beyond Oil and Gas," George A. Olah, Alain Goeppert, and G. K. Surya Prakash do a great job in arguing how methanol may be synthesized not only from the usual 2H 2 + CO CH 3 OH route, but ...

This paper describes the application of straight alcohol fuel concepts to diesel engines while evaluating the influence of methanol fuel composition on performance and exhaust emission behavior. A ...

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