Automotive Starting and Warm-Up Respond to Gasoline Volatility: (An API Project) 680434
The American Petroleum Institute program on atmospheric pollution includes work on the influence of gasoline volatility on automotive evaporation and exhaust emissions. This study concerns automotive performance response to gasoline volatility. Ten cars with and ten cars without exhaust emissions control systems, all 1966 models, were tested. Test fuels bracketed the volatility characteristics of commercially available products. Test temperatures generally covered the range from satisfactory to unsatisfactory performance. Car starting and warm-up performance generally improved with increasing fuel volatility; the degree of improvement varies among cars. No marked effect of exhaust emission control systems was observed. Simulated car aging degraded starting and warm-up performance.
Citation: Wilson, H., Burtner, R., Duckworth, J., and Osterhout, D., "Automotive Starting and Warm-Up Respond to Gasoline Volatility: (An API Project)," SAE Technical Paper 680434, 1968, https://doi.org/10.4271/680434. Download Citation
Author(s):
H. I. Wilson, R. E. Burtner, J. B. Duckworth, D. P. Osterhout
Pages: 29
Event:
Mid-Year Meeting
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Also in:
SAE 1968 Transactions-V77-A
Related Topics:
Emissions control
Exhaust emissions
Control systems
Gasoline
Starters and starting
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