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Powertrain Component Inspection from Mid-Level Blends Vehicle Aging Study.
| 题名： | Powertrain Component Inspection from Mid-Level Blends Vehicle Aging Study. |
| 作者： | Heimrich, M. J.; Johnson, R. D.; Lochte, M. D.; Shoffner, B. A. |
| 关键词： | Aging; Biomass; Catalysts; Consumption; Ethanol; Fuel Blends; Gasoline; Renewable Energy Sources; Transportation Fuels; Viability |
| 摘要： | The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 calls on the nation to significantly increase its use of renewable fuels to meet its transportation energy needs. The law expands the renewable fuel standard to require use of 36 billion gallons of renewable fuel by 2022. Given that ethanol is the most widely used renewable fuel in the U.S. market, ethanol will likely make up a significant portion of the 36-billion gallon requirement. The vast majority of ethanol used in the United States is blended with gasoline to create E10gasoline with up to 10% ethanol. The remaining ethanol is sold in the form of E85a gasoline blend with as much as 85% ethanol that can only be used in flexible-fuel vehicles (FFVs). Consumption of E85 is at present limited by both the size of the FFV fleet and the number of E85 fueling stations. Gasoline consumption in the United States is currently about 140 billion gallons per year; thus the maximum use of ethanol as E10 is only about 14 billion gallons. While the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) remains committed to expanding the E85 infrastructure, that market represented less than 1% of the ethanol consumed in 2010 and will not be able to absorb projected volumes of ethanol in the near term. Because of these factors, DOE and others have been assessing the viability of using mid-level ethanol blends (E15 or E20) as a way to accommodate growing volumes of ethanol. The DOE Mid-Level Ethanol Blends Test Program has been under way since 2007, supported jointly by the Office of the Biomass Program and the Vehicle Technologies Program. One of the larger projects, the Catalyst Durability Study, or Vehicle Aging Study, will be completed early in calendar year 2011. The report describes a subproject of the Vehicle Aging Study in which powertrain components from 18 of the vehicles were examined at Southwest Research Institute under contract to Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). |
| 报告类型： | 科技报告 |
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