Over the past two decades, air pollutant emissions from motor vehicles have fallen dramatically as a result of continuing improvements in vehicle, engine and after treatment technologies aided by the widespread introduction of sulphur-free fuels.While air pollutants...
The use of bio-derived blending components in road fuels is increasing around the world as a result of legislative initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, reduce dependence on imported fossil fuels, and support agriculture. Within the European Union, the...
Report no. 9/09: This report provides guidance on the handling and blending of Fatty Acid Methyl Esters (FAME), as a neat product and at concentrations up to 10% v/v in diesel fuel. The major challenges associated with diesel fuels containing FAME are discussed as...
Report no. 8/09: The effect of blending ethanol (up to 20% v/v) into gasoline on the volatility of the ethanol/gasoline blend and on the hot and cold weather vehicle driveability performance of these blends has been assessed from published literature. This literature...
Report no. 5/09: This report provides an update on human exposure information for gasoline-related activities for which previous assessments had suggested that exposure was either elevated or highly variable or available data were considered out-of-date. In addition...
