Influence of driving cycles on exhaust emissions and fuel consumption ofgasoline passenger car in Bangkok
NUTRAMON Tamsanya , SUPACHART Chungpaibulpatana
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Received April 04, 2008,Revised September 01, 2008, Accepted , Available online
Volume 21,2009,Pages 604-611
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The influence of di erent driving cycles on their exhaust emissions and fuel consumption rate of gasoline passenger car was
investigated in Bangkok based on the actual measurements obtained from a test vehicle driving on a standard chassis dynamometer. A
newly established Bangkok driving cycle (BDC) and the European driving cycle (EDC) which is presently adopted as the legislative
cycle for testing automobiles registered in Thailand were used. The newly developed BDC is constructed using the driving characteristic
data obtained from the real on-road driving tests along selected tra c routes. A method for selecting appropriate road routes for real
driving tests is also introduced. Variations of keyed driving parameters of BDC with di erent driving cycles were discussed. The results
showed that the HC and CO emission factors of BDC are almost two and four times greater than those of EDC, respectively. Although
the di erence in the NOx emission factor is small, the value from BDC is still greater than that of EDC by 10%. Under BDC, the test
vehicle consumes fuel about 25% more than it does under EDC. All these di erences are mainly attributed to the greater proportion
of idle periods and higher fluctuations of vehicle speed in the BDC cycle. This result indicated that the exhausted emissions and fuel
consumption of vehicles obtained from tests under the legislative modal-type driving cycle (EDC) are significantly di erent from those
actually produced under real tra c conditions especially during peak periods.
