M. Moussavi et M. Alturk, COMPRESSED NATURAL-GAS AND LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS AS ALTERNATIVE FUELS, Journal of energy engineering, 119(3), 1993, pp. 168-179
The use of alternative fuels in the transportation industry has gained
a strong support in recent years. In this paper an attempt was made t
o evaluate the use of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and compressed nat
ural gas (NG) by 25 LPG-bifuel and 14 NG-bifuel vehicles that are oper
ated by 33 transit systems throughout Nebraska. A set of performance m
easures such as average fuel efficiency in kilometers per liter, avera
ge fuel cost per kilometer, average oil consumption, and average opera
tion and maintenance cost for alternatively fueled vehicles were calcu
lated and compared with similar performance measures of gasoline power
ed vehicles. The results of the study showed that the average fuel eff
iciency of gasoline is greater than those of LPG and NG, and the avera
ge fuel costs (dollars per kilometer) for LPG and NG are smaller than
those for gasoline for most of the vehicles under this study.