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Speciation of Evaporative Emissions from Plastic Fuel Tanks
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Until now no results have been available regarding the composition of evaporative emissions in a SHED test. In particular, for alcohol containing fuels, it is important to assess the relative percentage of alcohols and hydrocarbons in view of their different environmental impacts. This paper presents the results of a study conducted to determine the composition of the emissions from a number of multilayer coextruded plastic fuel tanks soaked in IE10 and CM15 test fuels. These emissions were analyzed for composition using a gas chromatography analytical method which employs a vapor trap and desorb sampling technique. In the case of CM15, methanol was found to account for as much as 50% of the overall evaporative emissions. This speciation method also allows estimation of how leakage and permeation contribute separately to the overall emissions.
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Fead, E., Vengadam, R., Rossi, G., Olejnik, A. et al., "Speciation of Evaporative Emissions from Plastic Fuel Tanks," SAE Technical Paper 981376, 1998, https://doi.org/10.4271/981376.Also In
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