Estimation of air-pollution from internal combustion engines

摘要

The most serious pollutant from the engine exhaust is carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and oxides of nitrogen. In the present work a computer program is developed to estimate the carbon monoxide and nitric oxide from the engine exhaust. First the species are calculated based on equilibrium thermodynamics and then rate kinetics is applied to estimate the pollutant. The calculated values are checked against experimental results.