Tuesday, October 25, 2005

On-board distillation system cuts cold start hydrocarbon emissions

A team of engineers from Ford Motor Company and the University of Texas first developed this system for E85 fuel, but it can be used for other fuels as well.
Beating the Cold:
By Harry Hutchinson, Managing Editor -- Mechanical Engineering Magazine -- April 2001
"Matthews, along with Rudy Stanglmaier, a former UT Austin doctoral student now with the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, and two Ford engineers, Wen Dai and George Davis, have patented an on-board distillation system that can refine fast-evaporating species from fuel while the engine is running and set aside the product as a reserve to be used at start-up. "

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