Correlations of Light-duty Gasoline Vehicle Emissions Based on VMAS and CVS Measurement Systems

Gaseous emissions from 25 State 2-5 light-duty gasoline vehicles were tested by Vehicle Mass Analysis System (VMAS) and CVS (Constant Volume Sampling) system, respectively. The correlations of emission factors of tested vehicles measured by these 2 methods were analyzed. The results showed that emission factors of light-duty gasoline vehicle had a decreasing trend with the promotion of emission standard. There were some high-emitting vehicles in the fleet of tested State 2 and State 3 vehicles, but fewer in State 4 or Stated 5 vehicle fleet. The correlations of the emission factors measured by the 2 methods deteriorated with the promotion of emission standard. The relative bias of CO and HC+NOx emission factors measured by the 2 methods reached 197% and 177%, respectively. The correlation coefficient of emission factors of higher-emitting vehicles was 0.75-0.85, while that of lower-emitting vehicles was only 0.46. If tighter emission standard of in-use light-duty gasoline vehicle was adopted, the false positive rate of measurement results by VMAS would rise significantly. In summary, VMAS method is hard to be applied in the emission measurements of light-duty gasoline vehicles with stricter emissions standard. It is necessary to conduct more studies on sophisticated in-use vehicle measurement system. © 2017, Science Press. All right reserved.