Emissions performance of a hybrid hydrogen–gasoline engine-powered passenger car under the New European Driving Cycle

CATEGORY: HYDROGEN
Fuel, Volume 106, April 2013, Pages 873–875
Short communication
Emissions performance of a hybrid hydrogen–gasoline engine-powered passenger car under the New European Driving Cycle
Changwei Ji, Shuofeng Wang, Bo Zhang, Xiaolong Liu
College of Environmental and Energy Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
Abstract
Presents the emissions performance of a passenger car powered by the hybrid hydrogen–gasoline engine under the New European Driving Cycle. The hydrogen was produced from an onboard water electrolysis hydrogen generator fixed in the trunk.
Test results reveal that, when the engine was started with pure hydrogen for the first 7 seconds and fueled with pure gasoline after 11 seconds from the onset of the cold start, CO and HC emissions were reduced by 62.1% and 64.1%, respectively. The vehicle emissions performance could be improved from the Euro-II emissions standard of the original vehicle to the Euro-IV emissions standard of the hybrid hydrogen–gasoline engine-powered vehicle
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