Dispensing Equipment Testing with Mid-Level Ethanol/Gasoline Test Fluid [electronic resource] : Summary Report

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 622.33 *Carbonaceous materials
• Thông tin xuất bản: Washington, D.C. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy ; Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2010
• Mô tả vật lý: Size: 605 KB : , digital, PDF file.
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 265572
• Chủ đề: 1. 02 petroleum; 2. 09 biomass fuels; 3. 32 energy conservation, consumption, and utilization; 4. Automobiles; 5. Biomass

Tóm tắt

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL) Nonpetroleum-Based Fuel Task addresses the hurdles to commercialization of biomass-derived fuels and fuel blends. One such hurdle is the unknown compatibility of new fuels with current infrastructure, such as the equipment used at service stations to dispense fuel into automobiles. The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Vehicle Technology Programand the Biomass Program have engaged in a joint project to evaluate the potential for blending ethanol into gasoline at levels higher than nominal 10 volume percent. This project was established to help DOE and NREL better understand any potentially adverse impacts caused by a lack of knowledge about the compatibility of the dispensing equipment with ethanol blends higher than what the equipmentwas designed to dispense. This report provides data about the impact of introducing a gasoline with a higher volumetric ethanol content into service station dispensing equipment from a safety and a performance perspective.