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Off-Highway Gas Engines

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Natural Gas and Renewable Methane for Powertrains

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Gas engines currently have an extremely diverse range of applications. Off-highway gas engines—i.e. engines that are not intended for road vehicles—are increasingly also being used for applications that just a few years ago were the exclusive preserve of diesel engines.

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    Robert Böwing, Georg Tinschmann & Christian Trapp

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Böwing, R., Tinschmann, G., Trapp, C. (2016). Off-Highway Gas Engines. In: van Basshuysen, R. (eds) Natural Gas and Renewable Methane for Powertrains. Powertrain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23225-6_6

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