Automobile

Current requirements for vehicles are more pronounced for warm conditions than for cold for many reasons e.g., improved aerodynamics, transversal placement of the motor, generally higher temperatures under the hood, such that the automobile manufacturers prefer a reduction, rather than increase in RVP. 

Tests on vehicles have shown that the volatility index as defined expresses satisfactorily the fuel contribution during hot operation of the engine (Le Breton, 1984). In France, specifications stipulate that its value be limited to 900, 1000 and 1150, respectively, according to the season (summer, spring/fall, winter). The automobile manufacturers, being even more demanding, require in their own specifications that the FVI not be exceeded by 850 in summer. 

These are not official specifications, but rather Quality" levels specified by French automobile manufacturers. 

In every part of the world, the same type of classification as above is found for fuels premium or regular, with or without lead. The octane numbers can be different from one country to another depending on the extent of development of their car populations and the capabilities of their local refining industries. The elimination of lead is becoming the rule wherever there are large automobile populations and severe anti-pollution requirements. Thus the United States, Japan and Canada no longer distribute leaded fuels. (... 

The potential advantages of LPG concern essentially the environmental aspects. LPG s are simple mixtures of 3- and 4-carbon-atom hydrocarbons with few contaminants (very low sulfur content). LPG s contain no noxious additives such as lead and their exhaust emissions have little or no toxicity because aromatics are absent. This type of fuel also benefits often enough from a lower taxation. In spite of that, the use of LPG motor fuel remains static in France, if not on a slightly downward trend. There are several reasons for this situation little interest from automobile manufacturers, reluctance on the part of automobile customers, competition in the refining industry for other uses of and fractions, (alkylation, etherification, direct addition into the gasoline pool). However, in 1993 this subject seems to have received more interest (Hublin et al., 1993). 

To estimate the effect of automobile traffic and motor fuels on ozone formation, it is necessary to know the composition of exhaust gas in detail. Figure 5.26 gives an example of a gas phase chromatographic analysis of a conventional unleaded motor fuel. 

Soundproofing in buildings, automobiles, home appliances, for example. 

CNOMO (Comite de Normalisation des Moyens de Production) which prepares for the two national automobile manufacturers the texts that serve as the basis for supplier contracts... 

GFC (Groupement Francois de Coordination pour le developpement des essais de performances des lubrifiants et des combustibles pour moteurs) the membership of which includes petroleum companies, additive manufacturers, automobile manufacturers and a few consumers. The GFC is interested mainly in mechanical testing. 

Goodacre, C. (1958), Les antidetonants, en particulier le plomb tetraethyle. Son passe, son present, son avenir . Congres de la Societe des Ingenieurs de I Automobile, Paris. 

Hall, D.W. and L.M. Gibbs (1976), Carburetor deposits are clean throttle bodies enough . SAE paper No. 76-0752, Automobile Engineering Meeting, Dearborn, Ml. 

Sirtori, S., P. Garibaldi and F.A. Vicenzetto (1974), Prediction of the combustion properties of gasolines from the analysis of their composition . SAE paper No. 74-1058, International Automobile Engineering and Manufacturing Meeting, Toronto, Ontario. 

Very many types of eddy current instruments available tend to look remarkably similar in much the same way as automobiles tend to look alike. This may be an inevitable trend since developments are converging on users needs, plus PC platforms are being used more and these too are tending to look more and more alike. In the way that the DSP has changed the inside of the instrument, the PC. is changing the outside. 

Automobile motor part (VGInsight view) A crack is marked by tbe circle... 

Many modem automobiles are now equipped with an antilocking braking system. Explain in terms of and fit why this is advantageous. 

We consider next perhaps the bet understood catalyzed reaction the oxidation of CO over group VIII metal catalysts. The reaction is an important environmental one since it involves the conversion of CO to CO2 in automobile catalytic converters. The mechanism is straightforward ... 

The oxidation of CO to CO2, whieh is essential to eontrolling automobile emissions, has been extensively studied beeause of the relative simplieity of this reaetion. CO oxidation was the first reaetion to be studied using the surfaee seienee approaeh and is perhaps the most well understood heterogeneous eatalytie reaetion [58]. The simplieity of CO oxidation by O2 endears itself to surfaee seienee studies. Both reaetants are diatomie moleeules whose adsorption... 

Macroscopic properties often influence tlie perfoniiance of solid catalysts, which are used in reactors tliat may simply be tubes packed witli catalyst in tlie fonii of particles—chosen because gases or liquids flow tlirough a bed of tliem (usually continuously) witli little resistance (little pressure drop). Catalysts in tlie fonii of honeycombs (monolitlis) are used in automobile exliaust systems so tliat a stream of reactant gases flows witli little resistance tlirough tlie channels and heat from tlie exotlieniiic reactions (e.g., CO oxidation to CO,) is rapidly removed. 

The CO oxidation occurring in automobile exhaust converters is one of the best understood catalytic reactions, taking place on Pt surfaces by dissociative chemisoriDtion of to give O atoms and chemisoriDtion of CO, which reacts with chemisorbed O to give CO, which is immediately released into the gas phase. Details are evident from STM observations focused on the reaction between adsorbed O and adsorbed CO [12]. 

Emulsion polymerisation of a mixture of butadiene and styrene gives a synthetic rubber (Buna S GBS rubber), which is used either alone or blended with natural rubber for automobile tyres and a variety of other articles. 

In the finely divided state platinum is an excellent catalyst, having long been used in the contact process for producing sulfuric acid. It is also used as a catalyst in cracking petroleum products. Much interest exists in using platinum as a catalyst in fuel cells and in antipollution devices for automobiles. 

ETHYLENE We discussed ethylene production in an earlier boxed essay (Section 5 1) where it was pointed out that the output of the U S petrochemi cal industry exceeds 5 x 10 ° Ib/year Approximately 90% of this material is used for the preparation of four compounds (polyethylene ethylene oxide vinyl chloride and styrene) with polymerization to poly ethylene accounting for half the total Both vinyl chloride and styrene are polymerized to give poly(vinyl chloride) and polystyrene respectively (see Table 6 5) Ethylene oxide is a starting material for the preparation of ethylene glycol for use as an an tifreeze in automobile radiators and in the produc tion of polyester fibers (see the boxed essay Condensation Polymers Polyamides and Polyesters in Chapter 20)... 

Polypropylene fibers for use in car pets and automobile tires consum er Items (luggage appliances etc) packaging material... 

The elastomer produced in greatest amount is styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) Annually just under 10 lb of SBR IS produced in the United States and al most all of it IS used in automobile tires As its name suggests SBR is prepared from styrene and 1 3 buta diene It is an example of a copolymer a polymer as sembled from two or more different monomers Free radical polymerization of a mixture of styrene and 1 3 butadiene gives SBR... 

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