[On road particle emission characteristics of a Chinese phase IV natural gas bus].

An on-road experimental research was made on a Chinese phase IV natural gas bus using a Portable Emission Measurement System (PEMS), and particle emission characteristics under different vehicle speed, acceleration and vehicle specific power were investigated. The results show that particle number and mass emission rates increase and their emission factors decrease while the speed of the bus rises. Particle number concentration of different sizes shows multimodal logarithmic distribution pattern when the bus runs on all operation conditions (idle, low speed, medium speed and high speed), and nucleation mode particle account for a large proportion in the total particle number. With the increase of acceleration, particle emission rate rises, and it is lower when the bus runs at constant speed or slow deceleration condition than that at the fast acceleration condition. Furthermore, particle emission rate increases against the absolute value of the vehicle specific power (VSP).