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November 9, 2000Michigan Department of Consumer & Industry Services Director Announces $10,000 Energy Grant to Kettering University to Improve Use of Ethanol in Snowmobiles
Director Kathleen Wilbur announced today that the Michigan Department of Consumer & Industry Services (CIS) has awarded a $10,000 matching state energy grant to Kettering University for improving the use of ethanol in snowmobiles.
Kettering University will use the $10,000 matching grant to participate in the 2001 Society of Automotive Engineers Clean Snowmobile Challenge and optimize a snowmobile engine to run on E-85, which is a mixture of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline. There are over 2.3 million registered snowmobiles nationwide with over 278,000 of the snowmobiles in use in Michigan alone.
"Michigan has a significant number of snowmobile users so our state benefits significantly from this type of research because current levels of snowmobile emissions can pose serious environmental and health risks," Wilbur said. "Many National Parks officials have recently discussed limiting the use of snowmobiles within their parks due to high emissions, including Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Michigan's Upper Peninsula."
Kettering University's project will demonstrate the potential decrease in snowmobile emissions from using ethanol blended fuel. Currently, snowmobiles with conventional 2-stroke engines, emit 36 times more carbon monoxide and 98 times more hydrocarbons than an automobile. Using ethanol blended fuels may be one solution to decreasing emissions as using E-85 in automobiles has been shown to reduce unburned hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxide emissions by up to 58 percent.
The grant was awarded by CIS' Energy Office, which also presented a $35,000 matching grant to Kettering University this year for development of hydrogen technology for ethanol vehicles. CIS has awarded grants to Kettering University in 1998 and 1999 to fund its team's participation in the National Ethanol Vehicle Challenge.
"This grant highlights the State of Michigan's commitment to ethanol research, a fuel which can be produced domestically to keep more profits in our communities, provide more employment opportunities and reduce our dependency on foreign oil," Wilbur said. "Soon these economic benefits may be extended to Michigan farmers as a corn-to-ethanol plant is currently being planned and should be under construction soon."
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