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Comparison of Exhaust Emissions, Including Toxic Air Contaminants, from School Buses in Compressed Natural Gas, Low Emitting Diesel, and Conventional Diesel Engine Configurations
Technical Paper
2003-01-1381
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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In the United States, most school buses are powered by diesel engines. Some have advocated replacing diesel school buses with natural gas school buses, but little research has been conducted to understand the emissions from school bus engines. This work provides a detailed characterization of exhaust emissions from school buses using a diesel engine meeting 1998 emission standards, a low emitting diesel engine with an advanced engine calibration and a catalyzed particulate filter, and a natural gas engine without catalyst. All three bus configurations were tested over the same cycle, test weight, and road load settings.
Twenty-one of the 41 “toxic air contaminants” (TACs) listed by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) as being present in diesel exhaust were not found in the exhaust of any of the three bus configurations, even though special sampling provisions were utilized to detect low levels of TACs. Although there were no significant differences between the low emitting diesel and the natural gas bus configurations for 14 TACs, the low emitting diesel bus configuration had significantly different and lower emission levels than the natural gas bus configuration for aldehydes, ketones, and benzene. Overall, the results demonstrate that low-emitting diesel technology had the lowest level of both EPA regulated emissions and TACs.
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Authors
- Terry L. Ullman - Southwest Research Institute
- Lawrence R. Smith - Southwest Research Institute
- Joseph W. Anthony - Southwest Research Institute
- Warren J. Slodowske - International Truck and Engine Corporation
- Bill Trestrail - International Truck and Engine Corporation
- Angelita L. Cook - International Truck and Engine Corporation
- William B. Bunn - International Truck and Engine Corporation
- Charles A. Lapin - Lapin and Associates
- Kenneth J. Wright - ConocoPhillips
- Charles R. Clark - ConocoPhillips
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Ullman, T., Smith, L., Anthony, J., Slodowske, W. et al., "Comparison of Exhaust Emissions, Including Toxic Air Contaminants, from School Buses in Compressed Natural Gas, Low Emitting Diesel, and Conventional Diesel Engine Configurations," SAE Technical Paper 2003-01-1381, 2003, https://doi.org/10.4271/2003-01-1381.Also In
Diesel Emission Measurement, Modeling, & Control from the SAE 2003 World Congress on CD-ROM
Number: SP-1754CD; Published: 2003-03-03
Number: SP-1754CD; Published: 2003-03-03
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