What fuel properties enable higher thermal efficiency in spark-ignited engines?

JP Szybist, S Busch, RL McCormick, JA Pihl… - Progress in Energy and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Co-Optimization of Fuels and Engines (Co-Optima) initiative from the US
Department of Energy aims to co-develop fuels and engines in an effort to maximize energy …

An overview on bioethanol production from lignocellulosic feedstocks

M Toor, SS Kumar, SK Malyan, NR Bishnoi… - Chemosphere, 2020 - Elsevier
Lignocellulosic ethanol has been proposed as a green alternative to fossil fuels for many
decades. However, commercialization of lignocellulosic ethanol faces major hurdles …

Advanced progress and prospects for producing high-octane gasoline fuel toward market development: State-of-the-art and outlook

TMM Abdellatief, MA Ershov, VD Savelenko… - Energy & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The development of oil refining in advanced nations is mostly focused on low-carbon fuel.
Similar efforts are being made to improve the fuel efficiency of internal combustion engines …

A new chemical kinetic method of determining RON and MON values for single component and multicomponent mixtures of engine fuels

CK Westbrook, M Sjöberg, NP Cernansky - Combustion and Flame, 2018 - Elsevier
A new method of using chemical kinetic reaction modeling to predict the Research Octane
Number (RON) and Motor Octane Number (MON) of single component fuels and fuel …

An evolving research agenda of merit function calculations for new gasoline compositions

MA Ershov, VD Savelenko, NS Shvedova, VM Kapustin… - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
Gasoline engines have an even greater potential for optimization. New fuels composition
should be corresponded with modern engine technologies requirements. One of these …

[HTML][HTML] Review of life cycle assessments (LCA) for mobility powertrains

SM Sarathy, SS Nagaraja, E Singh, E Cenker… - Transportation …, 2022 - Elsevier
Continued economic growth is accelerating the demand for transport energy in the road,
aviation, and marine sectors. The environmental impacts of technologies across these …

Low-carbon fuels for spark-ignited engines: A comparative study of compressed natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas on a CFR engine with exhaust gas …

T Fosudo, T Kar, B Windom, D Olsen - Fuel, 2024 - Elsevier
Decades of work on low-carbon fuels have established their potential for substantial
emissions reductions; however, their adoption is still limited by infrastructure concerns and …

Discovery of novel octane hyperboosting phenomenon in prenol biofuel/gasoline blends

E Monroe, J Gladden, KO Albrecht, JT Bays… - Fuel, 2019 - Elsevier
This work describes the first documented case of an effect defined herein as “octane
hyperboosting” by an oxygenated fuel compound, 3-methyl-2-buten-1-ol (prenol). Octane …

Chemical kinetic basis of synergistic blending for research octane number

GM Fioroni, MJ Rahimi, CK Westbrook, SW Wagnon… - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
Utilizing kinetic simulations with the Co-Optimization of Fuels & Engines (Co-Optima)
mechanism, the research octane number (RON) of various synergistic blendstocks at …

Estimating region-specific fuel economy in the United States from real-world driving cycles

B Borlaug, J Holden, E Wood, B Lee, J Fink… - … Research Part D …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper describes a method for estimating region-specific real-world light-duty vehicle
fuel economy in the United States that is unique in both the size and representativeness of …