PERFORMANCE OF ARMY ENGINES WITH LEADED AND UNLEADED GASOLINE. PHASE II. FIELD STUDY EVALUATION
The first year's operation on unleaded gasoline has been completed with more than 20,000.000 vehicle miles and many hours accumulated on Material Handling Equipment and other ground power equipment. It can generally be concluded that Phase II has proven that Army gasoline powered equipment and vehicles can be operated during their normal daily activities on unleaded gasoline in the octane quality range used in the program for long periods of time without any apparent fuel economy penalties and with no increase in maintenance or operating costs. During Phase II there were no engine failures that could be attributed to the unleaded gasoline, there was no evidence of engine performance degradation; in fact, there were driver reports of better engine performance on the unleaded fuel. This is not at all surprising since cleaner burning engines had been observed during Phase 1 and longer life was obtained from spark plugs during the field evaluation.
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Supplemental Notes:
- See also Phase 1, AD-766 760.
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Corporate Authors:
Southwest Research Institute
Army Fuels and Lubricants Research Laboratory
San Antonio, TX United States 78284Army Mobility Equipment R&D Center
Fort Belvoir, VA United States -
Authors:
- Tosh, J D
- Johnston, A A
- Frame, E A
- Publication Date: 1975-1
Media Info
- Pagination: 88 p.
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Exhaust gases; Field tests; Fuel additives; Gasoline; Gasoline engines; Internal combustion engines; Lead compounds; Military transportation; Military vehicles; Performance; Performance tests; Unleaded gasoline
- Old TRIS Terms: Lead free; Performance engineering
- Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00091144
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
- Report/Paper Numbers: AFLRL-54 Final Rpt.
- Contract Numbers: DAAD05-72-C-0427
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jun 26 1975 12:00AM