[E&E seminars] WED: Ethanol Boosted Gasoline Engines

[Karen Gibson]

LFEE Seminar on Energy and Environment


Please join us for the final LFEE seminar of the year:


"Near Term Technologies for Improving Ethanol Use and Production:
Ethanol Boosted Gasoline Engines and Plasma Waste Conversion"

Daniel R. Cohn
Plasma Science and Fusion Center and Laboratory For Energy and the  
Environment

Wednesday, December 20, 2006
12:00 - 1:30 pm
E40-496

Near term , economically attractive technologies are needed to reduce  
oil dependence.  Use of a small amount of directly injected ethanol  
in gasoline engines can enable high efficiency at low cost.  Direct  
ethanol injection essentially removes the knock limit on engine power  
density thereby allowing the replacment of large engines with much  
smaller and more efficienct turbocharged engines which provide the  
same or better peformance.  Plasma waste conversion can be used to  
produce ethanol and methanol  from municipal and industrial waste.  
Waste material is an attractive feedstock because of its negative  
cost. Municipal and industrial waste in the United States  could  
potentially provide a renewable source of more than 30 billion  
gallons of alcohol fuel per year.


Bring your lunch - dessert will be provided.


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Karen  L. Gibson
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