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Vehicle equipment

fuel reformer

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

An alternative to storing hydrogen fuel in fuel-cell-powered vehicles. No infrastructure currently exists for delivering hydrogen fuel to consumers, and hydrogen-storage technologies are so large ...

fuel flexible

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

Ability of a vehicle to operate on either (a) a wide range of fuels blends (e.g., blends of gasoline and alcohol) or (b) two different fuels carried aboard the vehicle (e.g., gasoline and compressed ...

reactive organic gas (ROG)

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

Organic compounds (e.g., hydrocarbons) that produce ozone in the presence of NOx.

proton exchange membrane (PEM)

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

Specially treated material that looks something like ordinary kitchen plastic wrap but conducts only positively charged ions. It blocks electrons.

prototype

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

Functionally representative rendition of a device or system that is fabricated late in the development cycle, before production; an original model on which later improved models are based; an ...

reactant

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

Substance that reacts with another one to produce a new set of substances (products).

proton-induced x-ray emission (PIXE) analysis

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

A technique for nondestructive analysis of mineral inclusions and other small samples.

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