Technical Paper
Study of Alcohol-Gasoline Separation Technology to Suppress Knock and Enable Higher Efficiency Engines
2018-04-03
2018-01-0882
The availability of high octane fuel enables the engine to be designed with a compression ratio and boost which gives the Octane Boost Engine (OBE) higher efficiency. 3M has developed pervaporation separation modules made with flexible organic membranes that selectively remove and concentrate ethanol and methanol from gasoline blends.