reduction of exhaust emissions is a major research task in diesel engine development in view of increasing concerns regarding environmental protection and stringent exhaust gas regulations. simultaneousreduction of nox emissions and particulate matter is quite difficult due to the soot/nox trade-off and isoften accompanied by fuel consumption penalties. towards this aim, automotive engineers ha...

Introduction In the last years there is a growing interest in the development and study of alternative fuels across various transport industries. Aviation industry is no exception to this trend. Indeed, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) established the importance of sustainable low-carbon alternative aviation drop-in fuels in their recent Technology Roadmap [1] in order to repl...

The advancement of microbial processes for the production of renewable liquid fuels has increased with concerns about the current fuel economy. The development of advanced biofuels in particular has risen to address some of the shortcomings of ethanol. These advanced fuels have chemical properties similar to petroleum-based liquid fuels, thus removing the need for engine modification or infrast...

This paper describes the present situation regarding chemical kinetic databases for the simulation of the combustion of liquid fuels. Past work in the area is summarized. Much is known about the reactions of the smaller fragments from combustion processes. In order to describe real liquid fuels there is the need for an understanding of how the larger organic fuels are broken down to these fragm...

With the recent drop in natural gas prices in the United States, there is heightened interest to use methanotrophic bacteria to produce commercial products such as liquid fuels. This project was recently funded to explore this paradigm. This paper describes a bacterium that grows on methane and produces copious amounts of polyhydroxy butyrate. Methane-to-liquid fuels workshop http://arpa-e.ener...

Liquid transportation fuels derived from coal and natural gas could helpthe United States reduce its dependence on petroleum. The fuels could be produced domestically or imported from fossil fuel-rich countries. The goal of this paper is to determine the life-cycle GHG emissions of coal- and natural gas-based Fischer-Tropsch (FT) liquids, as well as to compare production costs. The results show...

In this paper, we study the structure and combustion of magnegases (Patented and International Patents Pending), new clean fuels developed by one of us (R.M.S.) [1], which are produced as byproducts of recycling nonradioactive liquid feedstock such as antifreeze waste, engine oil waste, town sewage, crude oil, etc., and generally vary with the liquid used for their production. A new technology,...