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A Study on the Characteristics of Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Gasoline Passenger Cars  

Lyu, Young-Sook (Transportation Emission Research Center, National Institute of Environmental Research, Environmental Research Complex)
Ryu, Jung-Ho (Transportation Emission Research Center, National Institute of Environmental Research, Environmental Research Complex)
Jung, Sung-Woon (Transportation Emission Research Center, National Institute of Environmental Research, Environmental Research Complex)
Jeon, Min-Seon (Transportation Emission Research Center, National Institute of Environmental Research, Environmental Research Complex)
Kim, Dae-Wook (Transportation Emission Research Center, National Institute of Environmental Research, Environmental Research Complex)
Eom, Myung-Do (Transportation Emission Research Center, National Institute of Environmental Research, Environmental Research Complex)
Kim, Jong-Choon (Transportation Emission Research Center, National Institute of Environmental Research, Environmental Research Complex)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers / v.15, no.2, 2007 , pp. 58-64 More about this Journal
Abstract
As the concerns regarding global worming were increased, the pressure of greenhouse gas(GHG) emission reduction on mobile source was also increased. Carbon dioxides contribute over 90% of total GHG emission and the mobile source occupies about 20% of this $CO_2$ emission. Therefore automotive exhaust is suspected to be one of the major reasons of the rapid increase in greenhouse effect gases in ambient air. In this study, in order to investigate $CO_2$ emission characteristics from gasoline passenger cars(PC), which is the most dominant vehicle type in Korea, 106 vehicles were tested on the chassis dynamometer. $CO_2$ emissions and fuel efficiency were measured. The emission characteristics by displacement, gross vehicle weight, vehicle speed and CVS-75/vehicle speed mode were discussed. Test modes were vehicle speed modes and CVS-75 mode that have been used to develop emission factors and to regulate for light-duty vehicle in Korea. It was found that $CO_2$ emissions showed higher large displacement, heavy gross vehicle weight, low vehicle speed and CVS-75 mode than small displacement, light gross vehicle weight, high vehicle speed and vehicle speed mode, respectively. From these results, correlation between $CO_2$ emission and fuel efficiency was also determined. The results of this study will contribute to domestic greenhouse gas emissions calculation and making the national policy for climate change.
Keywords
Greenhouse gas; Carbon dioxide emissions; Fuel efficiency; Passenger cars; Chassis dynamometer; Gross vehicle weight;
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