The Fuel Quality Standards Act 2000, which received Royal Assent on 21 December 2000, provides the framework for a national fuel quality standards regime. This legislation has been developed in response to an urgent need to address the quality of fuel currently available in Australia. New vehicle emission standards, harmonising Australian standards with international vehicle emission standards,...

BACKGROUND Energy efficiency analysis for different biomass-utilization scenarios would help make more informed decisions for developing future biomass-based transportation systems. Diverse biofuels produced from biomass include cellulosic ethanol, butanol, fatty acid ethyl esters, methane, hydrogen, methanol, dimethyether, Fischer-Tropsch diesel, and bioelectricity; the respective powertrain s...

This Paper proposed the estimation method of fuel consumption from vehicle information through OBD-II. We assumed RPM, TPS had a relationship with fuel consumption. We got the output as fuel-consumption from a vehicle RPM, TPS as input by using polynomial equations. We had modeling as quadric function and surface function with OBD-II data and fuel consumption data supported by automotive compan...

We report a unique and highly stable electrocatalyst-platinum (Pt) supported on titanium-ruthenium oxide (TRO)-for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. The Pt/TRO electrocatalyst was exposed to stringent accelerated test protocols designed to induce degradation and failure mechanisms identical to those seen during extended normal operation of a fuel cell automobile-namely, support corrosion during vehi...

a r t i c l e i n f o With the shift from an industry-based society to a knowledge-based one, there has been a gradual increase in the importance of intangible assets such as technologies and information. Patents are a representative intellectual outcome of intangible assets and can be used as an objective measure of the level of technology or innovation of individuals, firms, and countries. In...