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A Study on the Evaporative Emission Characteristics of Korean Gasoline Vehicles  

Park, Jun-Hong (Transportation Pollution Research Center, National Institute of Environmental Research)
Park, Young-Pyo (Transportation Pollution Research Center, National Institute of Environmental Research)
Lim, Yun-Sung (Transportation Pollution Research Center, National Institute of Environmental Research)
Lee, Jong-Tae (Transportation Pollution Research Center, National Institute of Environmental Research)
Kim, Jung-Su (Transportation Pollution Research Center, National Institute of Environmental Research)
Choi, Kwang-Ho (Department of General Education, Namseoul University)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers / v.19, no.4, 2011 , pp. 121-129 More about this Journal
Abstract
Hydrocarbons which are the main sources of VOCs from motor vehicles are emitted not only from the engine exhaust gas but also from evaporation of the fuel in storage and supplying systems. Evaporative emissions from gasoline fuel systems could be classified by diurnal, hotsoak and running loss. Diurnal loss test procedures are different as countries. Korea introduced new evaporative regulation in 2009 with 24hour VT-shed test procedure and relaxed emission standards. The estimations on different test procedures in this study show that the new Korean regulation get a little more severe than before and the 2 day diurnal loss test of U.S. is the most severe. So the test procedures as well as the stronger standards should be considered in the next evaporative emission regulation to reduce VOCs from motor vehicles. The important parameters to affect evaporative emissions are air and fuel temperature and fuel vapor pressure. Diurnal loss increases exponentially as rising air temperature and vapor pressure. The effects of vapor pressure on running loss are different as the capacities of canisters. Tests with simulating real temperature and driving conditions show that hydrocarbons in evaporative emissions could be more than those in exhaust gas in summer season because of the higher air temperature.
Keywords
Evaporative emission; Diurnal loss; Running loss; Variable temperature SHED; Fuel vapor pressure;
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