P-Mo-125 Methane production over three way catalysts in E85 fuelled vehicles

Monday, June 6, 2011
Ontario Exhibit Hall (Detroit Marriott Hotel at the Renaissance Center )
Anna Fathali, Gasoline Aftertreatment, Saab Automobile Powertrain AB, Trollhättan, Sweden, Louise Olsson, Chemical Engineering, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Göteborg, Sweden and Bengt Andersson, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chemical Reaction Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
The objective of this study was to elucidate the methane formation on Pd/Rh/CeO2–ZrO2 catalysts operating at various ethanol mixtures and to propose thorough mechanism of methane production and, if possible, to find a solution to decrease the amount of produced methane.  

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