Flex Fuel to Solve Indian Fuel Crises
To address the fuel price crisis, the government is promoting flex fuel engines, which can run on both petrol and ethanol-mixed petrol. This aims to reduce dependence on petrol and diesel, cutting fuel imports. Flex fuel engines have a wider acceptance band and can adjust to different fuel mixtures. Ethanol addition makes the mixture less flammable, with different combustion products. Suitable for cars with space for ECM and lower revving engines, flex fuel engines offer a feasible solution to the fuel price crisis, according to Nitin Gadkari, Minister for Road, Transport, and Highways.
Fuel prices have been on an all time high since last month. To acknowledge that this is a problem and the government needs to fix it a push has been seen from the government towards Flex fuel. What is flex fuel and how will it solve fuel price crisis?
Nitin Gadkari, Minister for Road, Transport and highways has announced a push for an alternative fuel. This is to bring down the dependancy petrol and diesel and thereby cut down the amount of fuel imports. Here alternative fuel hints towards ethanol.
Flex Fuel not a fuel?
These is nothing like flex fuel, there are flex fuel engine. These engines can run on both petrol as well as ethanol mixed petrol. Technically speaking the Petrol engine which can run CNG is too a flex fuel engine.
A specifically developed flex fuel engine will have a wider band of acceptance of fuels. Added ethanol mixed fuel makes the mixture a bit less flammable and the combustion product is different. The Flex fuel concept is feasible for cars as they have space to run the ECM as well as there is room for error with not so high revving engines.
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