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Emission Control of VOC Components in Gasoline with Oxygenates: A Comparative Study
Author(s) -
Furzer I. A.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
developments in chemical engineering and mineral processing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1932-2143
pISSN - 0969-1855
DOI - 10.1002/apj.5500040309
Subject(s) - oxygenate , gasoline , methanol , chemistry , ethanol , environmental chemistry , composition (language) , volatile organic compound , organic chemistry , catalysis , philosophy , linguistics
A new characterisation method for VOC emissions is proposed for gasolines containing oxygenates such as methanol, ethanol and MTBE. The method is based on determining the vapour composition of an oxygenated gasoline that contains 10% (mol) oxygenate, and 10% (mol) is vaporised. A simulation of the method for a PNA gasoline with oxygenates gave the characteristic vapour composition for methanol, ethanol and MTBE as 0.536, 0.196 and 0.243(mol frac) respectively. Major VOC emissions may be expected in oxygenated gasolines containing methanol.