Vehicle equipment

Vehicle equipment

Industry: Automotive

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emissions standards

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

Regulatory standards that govern the amount of a given substance that can be discharged into the air.

Typical internal combustion engine vehicles convert fuel energy to shaft work, which is used to overcome the tractive energy needed to drive forward. The same energy is used to operate a vehicle's ...

equivalence ratio

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

Actual air/fuel ratio divided by the stoichiometric air/fuel ratio. An air/fuel mixture is said to be stoichiometric when fuel combustion consumes all of the initial reacting species in going to ...

ethanol

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

A liquid alcohol made by fermenting sugars derived from starches in plants, such as corn or sugar cane (CH3CH2OH, ethyl or grain alcohol). When denatured (made unfit for human consumption), it can be ...

exhaust aftertreatment

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

A method of controlling emissions from internal combustion engines — primarily NOx — by applying air pollution control technologies to engine exhaust (as opposed to treatments applied to the engine's ...