Flex-fuel Dilemma Solved with a Sniff: a New Engine Management System from Abcesso Technology
A breakthrough in flex-fuel engine management systems by Abcesso Technology could make life easier for millions of motorists not just in South and North America but across the globe.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (PRWEB) April 9, 2008 -- As the U.S.'s National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition (NEVC) launched a six-state initiative to promote greater use of E85, the ethanol/gasoline mix, as an alternative to gasoline, engineers at Abcesso Technology's in Rio de Janeiro, launched the company's new flex-fuel engine management system.
The NEVC estimates that the market for E85 has increased ten-fold during the past five years, to about 10 million gallons a year. It has launched its new promotion in Wisconsin, Missouri, Colorado, Minnesota, Michigan and Illinois.
E85, which is 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline, is currently made from domestically-produced corn. Price and performance is similar to that of regular gasoline. But ethanol is renewable, produces fewer emissions and helps reduce demand for imported oil by 98,000 barrels a day, which reduces the U.S. trade deficit by $1.1 billion a year. There are an estimated three million flexible fuel vehicles in the U.S., able to run on E85 or gasoline.
In Brazil, most cars run on E100, which is 100 percent alcohol, or ethanol fuel, produced from sugar cane. Now, Brazilian motorists who buy cars equipped with flex-fuel technology will be able to pull onto the forecourt of their nearest filling station and fill up with whatever is the cheapest fuel that day - without having to worry about their car's performance.
The systems, detects whether you have filled up with regular gasoline or alcohol fuel, or have a mixture of both in the tank and adjusts the engine management mapping to make sure the engine is working at its best.
"It means that from now on, motorists won't have to decide whether to buy a car that will run only on ethanol or only on petrol."
Although this is a particular dilemma for Brazil, the breakthrough flex-fuel engine management system has implications across the globe - or anywhere motorists have a choice of ethanol, methanol or petroleum-based fuel.
China for example, India and Africa could all benefit from this technology, says Vidar Lura director of Abcesso Technology.
The Brazilian government encouraged the country's auto industry to switch to ethanol-based fuels in the 1980s, when oil prices were high and sugar cane, used to produce the alcohol fuel, was cheap and plentiful.
The system works by "sniffing" the amount of oxygen in the exhaust and calculating which fuel or fuel mix is being used. If there's too much oxygen in the pipe, more fuel is injected.
One extra advantage of the flex-fuel engine management system is that it also detects the difference between hot and cold weather and makes easy to start the engine in the winter period.
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