HIGHWAY VEHICLE RETROFIT EVALUATION. PHASE I. ANALYSIS AND PRELIMINARY EVALUATION RESULTS. VOLUME II: SECTIONS 4 THROUGH 13 AND APPENDIX

More than 20 representative classes of retrofit devices/concepts/techniques, including more than 130 specific items, were examined in the course of the study. A major portion of the analysis effort was directed to the evaluation of 16 advanced, novel, or new carburetors which have the potential to improve automotive fuel economy.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • See also Volume 1, PB-252 554.
• Corporate Authors:

  Aerospace Corporation

  2350 East El Sequdo Boulevard
  El Sequndo, CA  United States  90245

  Transportation Systems Center

  55 Broadway, Kendall Square
  Cambridge, MA  United States  02142
• Authors:
  • HINTON, M G
  • MELTZER, J
  • IURA, T
  • FORREST, L
  • Burke, A
• Publication Date: 1975-11

Media Info

• Pagination: 190 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automotive engineering; Carburetion; Carburetors; Cost estimating; Design; Engines; Estimates; Evaluation; Fuel consumption; Gasoline engines; Intake valves; Internal combustion engines; Performance evaluations; Retrofitting; Spark ignition engines; Sprayers; Trucks; Vehicle power plants; Volatilization
• Uncontrolled Terms: Injection
• Old TRIS Terms: Atomizers; Automobile engines; Intake systems; Motor vehicle engines; Truck engines; Vaporizing
• Subject Areas: Design; Energy; Highways; Motor Carriers; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00136811
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: Intrm Rpt., DOT-TSC-OST-75-48.II
• Contract Numbers: F04701-74-C-0075
• Files: NTIS, TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 13 1976 12:00AM