The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) established strict regulations for highway diesel engine exhaust emissions of particulate matter (PM) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) to aid in meeting the National Ambient Air Quality Standards. The emission standards were phased in with stringent standards for 2007 model year (MY) heavy-duty engines (HDEs), and even more stringent NOX standards for 201...

The main objective of this research is to study the effects of JP-4-biodiesel-diesel fuel blends and operating parameters on the emission characteristics of a CI engine. The experimental tests were performed on a four-cylinder DI diesel engine. The Mixture-RSM method was used to develop mathematical models based on experimental data. The results showed that with the increase of the biodiesel pr...

Estimates of Asian emissions of air pollutants and carbonaceous aerosols and their mid-term projections have been changing significantly in the last years. The remote sensing community has shown that increase in NOx in Central East Asia is much stronger than any of the emission inventories or projections indicated so far. A number of studies reviewing older estimates appeared. Here, we review t...

The reduction of ambient concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is a key objective for air pollution control policies in the UK and elsewhere. Long-term exposure to PM2.5 has been identified as a major contributor to adverse human health effects in epidemiological studies and underpins ambient PM2.5 legislation. As a range of emission sources and atmospheric chemistry transport proce...

A multivariable control scheme is designed to minimize emission of nitrogen oxides NOx and generation of smoke in a Diesel engine equipped with a variable geometry tur bocharger VGT and an external exhaust gas recirculation system EGR Steady state optimization results in operat ing points where NOx emissions and smoke generation are highly coupled and require joint management by VGT and EGR act...

[1] Model studies typically estimate intercontinental influence on surface ozone by perturbing emissions from a source continent and diagnosing the ozone response in the receptor continent. Since the response to perturbations is nonlinear due to chemistry, conclusions drawn from different studies may depend on the magnitude of the applied perturbation. We investigate this issue for intercontine...

This paper aims to correct standard measures of agglomeration economies to account for air pollution generated by commuting. This paper examines the impact of nitrogen oxide (NOX) a pollutant mainly released by transportation on worker productivity. Literature on agglomeration economies highlights the positive role of employment density on productivity, without accounting for the environmental ...

Comment: This manuscript presents a modeling study on the effects of anthropogenic nitrogen deposition on ozone pollution through surface-atmosphere exchanges. The Authors combine GEOS-Chem with CLM to produce an interesting, smart modeling experiment to study several processes (e.g. soil NOx, biogenic VOC, LAI, dry deposition velocity, etc) that affect surface ozone. They find that enhance atm...

The technical analysis conducted in this study deals with the modelling of diesel engine exhaust emissions using artificial neural networks. Objective of this study is to understand the effectiveness of various biodiesel fuel properties and engine operating conditions on diesel engine combustion towards the formation of exhaust emissions. The experimental investigations have been carried out on...

A new methodology is developed to constrain Chinese anthropogenic emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) from four major sectors (industry, power plants, mobile and residential) in July 2008. It combines tropospheric NO2 column retrievals from GOME-2 and OMI, taking advantage of their different passing time over China (∼10:00 a.m. LT (local time) versus ∼02:00 p.m.) and consistent retrieval algorit...