Performance and emission characteristics of diesel engine fueled with ethanol-diesel blends in different altitude

Jilin Lei1, Yuhua Bi, Lizhong Shen

  • 1Faculty of Transportation Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650224, China.

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