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Future Automotive Fuels

• Prospects • Performance • Perspective

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  • © 1977

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Editors:
  1. Joseph M. Colucci

    1. General Motors Research Laboratories, USA

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  2. Nicholas E. Gallopoulos

    1. General Motors Research Laboratories, USA

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. The Need, Resources, and Possibilities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Future Demand for Automotive Fuels

      • R. F. Hemphill Jr., C. Difiglio
      Pages 3-33

    3. The U. S. Energy Outlook Through 1990

      • S. J. Beaubien
      Pages 34-58

    4. Energy Conservation and Fuel-Vehicle Optimization

      • H. F. Shannon
      Pages 59-72

    5. An Opportunity for Maximizing Transportation Energy Conservation

      • E. M. Johnson, W. T. Tierney, N. R. Crawford
      Pages 73-95

    6. Matching Future Automotive Fuels and Engines for Optimum Energy Efficiency

      • R. F. Stebar, W. A. Daniel, A. R. Sapre, B. D. Peters
      Pages 96-120

  3. Future Automotive Fuel Sources

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123
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    2. Coal as a Source of Automotive Fuels

      • E. L. Clark
      Pages 125-135

    3. Motor Fuels from Oil Shale — Production and Properties

      • J. H. Gary
      Pages 136-148

    4. The Influence of Nuclear Energy on Transportation Fuels

      • J. L. Russell
      Pages 149-162

  4. Automotive Utilization of Intermediate—Term Future Fuels

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165
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    2. Characteristics of Conventional Fuels from Non-Petroleum Sources — an Experimental Study

      • R. W. Hurn
      Pages 167-176

    3. Application of a New Combustion Analysis Method in the Study of Alternate Fuel Combustion and Emission Characteristics

      • J. A. Harrington
      Pages 177-213

    4. Engine Performance and Exhaust Emission Characteristics of a Methanol-Fueled Automobile

      • W. E. Bernhardt, W. Lee
      Pages 214-234

    5. Combustion of Methanol in an Automotive Gas Turbine

      • L. W. Huellmantel, S. G. Liddle, D. C. Hammond Jr.
      Pages 235-262

    6. Alternative Fuels for Automotive Diesel Engines

      • W. M. Scott
      Pages 263-292

  5. Long-Term Future Fuels and an Overall Assessment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 295-295
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    2. Hydrogen as a Reciprocating Engine Fuel

      • W. J. McLean, P. C. T. de Boer, H. S. Homan, J. J. Fagelson
      Pages 297-319

    3. Hydronitrogens as Future Automotive Fuels

      • E. W. Schmidt
      Pages 320-341
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About this book

In October 1975, while the United States was still acutely feeling the aftermath of the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo, the General Motors Research Laboratories held its nineteenth annual symposium. The proceedings of this timely symposium on "Future Automotive Fuels - Prospects, Performance, and Perspective" are reported in this book. We hope that it will serve not only as a permanent record of the papers and discussions, but also as a stimulus and inspiration for ideas, research, and development in the vital field of automotive fuels. The economy of the United States and the lifestyle of her people are woven together with energy into a unique fabric. Reducing the energy content of this fabric weakens it and can even destroy it. The Oil Embargo stunningly demonstrated how easy it is to attack this fabric, and exposed for all to see its greatest weaknes- reliance on imported petroleum. Since petroleum is the only current source of automotive fuels, and cars and trucks consume about 43 percent of the petroleum used in the United States, the Oil Embargo had its most profound and dramatic on automotive transportation: First there were long lines at service stations, impact and then idle lines in car assembly plants and long lines at unemployment offices. Against this grim setting, we planned the symposium on automotive fuels for the future.

Editors and Affiliations

  • General Motors Research Laboratories, USA

    Joseph M. Colucci, Nicholas E. Gallopoulos

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Future Automotive Fuels

  • Book Subtitle: • Prospects • Performance • Perspective

  • Editors: Joseph M. Colucci, Nicholas E. Gallopoulos

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2334-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1977

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-2336-5Published: 01 December 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-2334-1Published: 09 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 380

  • Topics: Mechanical Engineering

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