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Desenvolvimento de um equipamento para avaliação do efeito do etanol na pressão de vapor e entalpia de vaporização em gasolinas automotivas

2006; Brazilian Chemical Society; Volume: 29; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s0100-40422006000300029

1678-7064

Renato Cataluña, Rosangela Maria Ferreira da Costa e Silva,

Combustion and flame dynamics

ENTHALPY OF FUEL GASOLINES.The quality of the gasoline utilized for fueling internal combustion engines with spark ignition is directly affected by the gasoline's properties.Thus, the fuel's properties must be in perfect equilibrium to allow the engine to perform optimally, not only insofar as fuel consumption is concerned, but also in order to reduce the emission of pollutants.Vapor pressure and vaporization enthalpy are important properties of a gasoline determining the fuel's behavior under different operating conditions in internal combustion engines.The study reported here involved the development of a device to determine the vapor pressure and the vaporization enthalpy of formulations containing volumes of 5, 15 and 25% of ethanol in four base gasolines (G1, G2, G3 and G4).The chemical composition of these gasolines was determined using a gas chromatographer equipped with a flame ionization detector (FID).