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A Fuel Vapor Model (FVSMOD) for Evaporative Emissions System Design and Analysis
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A fuel vapor system model (FVSMOD) has been developed to simulate vehicle evaporative emission control system behavior. The fuel system components incorporated into the model include the fuel tank and pump, filler cap, liquid supply and return lines, fuel rail, vent valves, vent line, carbon canister and purge line. The system is modeled as a vented system of liquid fuel and vapor in equilibrium, subject to a thermal environment characterized by underhood and underbody temperatures and heat transfer parameters assumed known or determined by calibration with experimental liquid temperature data. The vapor/liquid equilibrium is calculated by simple empirical equations which take into account the weathering of the fuel, while the canister is modeled as a 1-dimensional unsteady absorptive and diffusive bed. Both fuel and canister submodels have been described in previous publications. This paper presents the system equations along with validation against experimental data. Some typical vapor system applications are also presented including a simulation of the EPA three day enhanced evaporative test procedure.
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Lavoie, G., Imai, Y., and Johnson, P., "A Fuel Vapor Model (FVSMOD) for Evaporative Emissions System Design and Analysis," SAE Technical Paper 982644, 1998, https://doi.org/10.4271/982644.Also In
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