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Biofuel / Emissions Analysis


AndrewMech

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Electrochemical gas analysers can be used to measure CO, CO2, O2, SO2, NO2,and NO when using a biofuel called Waste Cooking Oil Methyl Ester (WCOME).

 

What other methods can be used to measure the gases emitted by engines using this fuel or any fuel for that matter?

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Hi

 

"What other methods can be used to measure the gases emitted by engines using this fuel or any fuel for that matter?"

 

For real time measurements, a mass spectrometer would be able to supply you with exact date of all the possible emission products (it measures the numbers of protons).

 

But it probably only appliciable in a stationary set-up.

 

/Johannes

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I wonder if something can be cobbled together using the sensors from the emission control systems from a modern car engine...?
No. The exhaust sensors output voltage as a function of the partial pressure of the oxygen in the exhaust gas. They can't detect anything else.
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