@misc{2f4c0ff9480c454aa91dfc75be2ca148,
title = "Co-Optimization of Internal Combustion Engines and Biofuels: NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)",
abstract = "The development of advanced engines has significant potential advantages in reduced aftertreatment costs for air pollutant emission control, and just as importantly for efficiency improvements and associated greenhouse gas emission reductions. There are significant opportunities to leverage fuel properties to create more optimal engine designs for both advanced spark-ignition and compression-ignition combustion strategies. The fact that biofuel blendstocks offer a potentially low-carbon approach to fuel production, leads to the idea of optimizing the entire fuel production-utilization value chain as a system from the standpoint of life cycle greenhouse gas emissions. This is a difficult challenge that has yet to be realized. This presentation will discuss the relationship between chemical structure and critical fuel properties for more efficient combustion, survey the properties of a range of biofuels that may be produced in the future, and describe the ongoing challenges of fuel-engine co-optimization.",
keywords = "biofuels, co-optimization, knock resistance, particle emissions, spark ignition",
author = "Robert McCormick",
year = "2016",
language = "American English",
series = "Presented at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Future Fuels Workshop, 7-9 March 2016, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia",
type = "Other",
}
