Review of status for automotive fuel and future forecast

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1674-8484.2011.02.002

Abstract

Abstract: For saving energy and protecting environment, it is necessary to develop new automotive fuel for current as well as future demand. The authors review the state-of-art and development of current petrol fuels for automobiles as well as various kinds of alternative fuels available for them, and also foresee the future for the development of those fuels. The conclusion is that the petroleum fuel will play dominant roles in long time of future, but gaseous fuel will be adopted in certain areas; alcoholic and etheric fuel will come to be used more and more, some new fuels may also be applied on automobiles. With the development of technology, multiple fuels will be selected as the research and application tendency in the future.

Key words: internal combustion (IC) engine, automobile fuel, alternative fuel

CLC Number:

U 473

YAO Chun-De, XU Han-Jun. Review of status for automotive fuel and future forecast[J]. Journal of Automotive Safety and Energy, 2011, 2(2): 101-110.

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