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Thomas D. Durbin is affiliated with the University of California, Riverside in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on engineering and environmental science, with significant contributions to automotive engineering and related fields.

The scientist's work covers several subfields, including automotive engineering, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, atmospheric science, fluid flow and transfer processes, and environmental engineering.

Durbin's main topics of research include:

  • Vehicle emissions and performance
  • Air quality and health impacts
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Advanced combustion engine technologies
  • Catalytic processes in materials science
  • Maritime transport emissions and efficiency
  • Energy, environment, and transportation policies

Frequent coauthors in their publications are:

  • Georgios Karavalakis
  • Kent C. Johnson
  • Hanwei Zhu
  • Cavan McCaffery
  • Chengguo Li

The main venues where Durbin has published work include:

  • Fuel
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Atmospheric Environment
  • Emission Control Science and Technology
  • Environmental Science & Technology

Selected recent papers by Thomas D. Durbin are:

  • Real-world NOx emissions from heavy-duty diesel, natural gas, and diesel hybrid electric vehicles of different vocations on California roadways, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Effects of hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO) and HVO/biodiesel blends on the physicochemical and toxicological properties of emissions from an off-road heavy-duty diesel engine, 2022, Fuel
  • Controlling emissions from an ocean-going container vessel with a wet scrubber system, 2021, Fuel
  • Understanding elevated real-world NOx emissions: Heavy-duty diesel engine certification testing versus in-use vehicle testing, 2021, Fuel
  • Sources of air pollutants from a Tier 2 ocean-going container vessel: Main engine, auxiliary engine, and auxiliary boiler, 2020, Atmospheric Environment

Best Publications

  • Effects of Biodiesel, Biodiesel Blends, and a Synthetic Diesel on Emissions from Light Heavy-Duty Diesel Vehicles

    Thomas D. Durbin;John R. Collins;Joseph M. Norbeck;Matthew R. Smith

  • Estimates of the emission rates of ammonia from light-duty vehicles using standard chassis dynamometer test cycles

    Thomas D Durbin;Ryan D Wilson;Joseph M Norbeck;J.Wayne Miller

  • Impacts of ethanol fuel level on emissions of regulated and unregulated pollutants from a fleet of gasoline light-duty vehicles

    Georgios Karavalakis;Thomas D. Durbin;Manish Shrivastava;Zhongqing Zheng

  • Investigation of NH3 Emissions from New Technology Vehicles as a Function of Vehicle Operating Conditions

    Tao Huai;Thomas D. Durbin;J. Wayne Miller;John T. Pisano

  • Evaluating the regulated emissions, air toxics, ultrafine particles, and black carbon from SI-PFI and SI-DI vehicles operating on different ethanol and iso-butanol blends

    Georgios Karavalakis;Daniel Short;Diep Vu;Mark Villela

  • Effects of biodiesel blends and Arco EC-diesel on emissions from light heavy-duty diesel vehicles.

    Thomas D. Durbin;Joseph M. Norbeck

  • Evaluating the Effects of Aromatics Content in Gasoline on Gaseous and Particulate Matter Emissions from SI-PFI and SIDI Vehicles.

    Georgios Karavalakis;Georgios Karavalakis;Daniel Short;Daniel Short;Diep Vu;Diep Vu;Robert Russell

  • Time resolved characterization of diesel particulate emissions. 1. Instruments for particle mass measurements.

    Moosmüller H;Arnott Wp;Rogers Cf;Bowen Jl

  • Regulated, greenhouse gas, and particulate emissions from lean-burn and stoichiometric natural gas heavy-duty vehicles on different fuel compositions

    Georgios Karavalakis;Georgios Karavalakis;Maryam Hajbabaei;Yu Jiang;Yu Jiang;Jiacheng Yang;Jiacheng Yang

  • The effect of natural gas composition on the regulated emissions, gaseous toxic pollutants, and ultrafine particle number emissions from a refuse hauler vehicle

    Georgios Karavalakis;Maryam Hajbabaei;Thomas D. Durbin;Kent C. Johnson

  • Estimates of the emission rates of nitrous oxide from light-duty vehicles using different chassis dynamometer test cycles

    Tao Huai;Thomas D. Durbin;J. Wayne Miller;Joseph M. Norbeck

  • Evaluation and Comparison of Portable Emissions Measurement Systems and Federal Reference Methods for Emissions from a Back-Up Generator and a Diesel Truck Operated on a Chassis Dynamometer

    Thomas D. Durbin;Kent Johnson;David R. Cocker;J. Wayne Miller

  • Impact of natural gas fuel composition on criteria, toxic, and particle emissions from transit buses equipped with lean burn and stoichiometric engines

    Maryam Hajbabaei;Georgios Karavalakis;Kent C. Johnson;Linda Lee

  • Regulated emissions from biodiesel fuels from on/off-road applications.

    Thomas D. Durbin;David R. Cocker;Aniket A. Sawant;Kent Johnson

  • Effects of fuel ethanol content and volatility on regulated and unregulated exhaust emissions for the latest technology gasoline vehicles.

    Thomas D. Durbin;J. Wayne Miller;Theodore Younglove;Tao Huai

  • Air pollutant emissions of light-duty vehicles operating on various natural gas compositions

    Georgios Karavalakis;Thomas D. Durbin;Mark Villela;J. Wayne Miller

  • Investigation of solid particle number measurement: Existence and nature of sub-23 nm particles under PMP methodology

    Zhongqing Zheng;Kent C. Johnson;Zhihua Liu;Thomas D. Durbin

  • On-Board Sensor-Based NO x Emissions from Heavy-Duty Diesel Vehicles.

    Yi Tan;Paul Henderick;Seungju Yoon;Jorn Herner

  • Atomic layer epitaxy of silicon by dichlorosilane studied with core level spectroscopy

    J. A. Yarmoff;D. K. Shuh;T. D. Durbin;C. W. Lo

  • TIME-RESOLVED CHARACTERIZATION OF DIESEL PARTICULATE EMISSIONS. 2: INSTRUMENTS FOR ELEMENTAL AND ORGANIC CARBON MEASUREMENTS

    Moosmüller H;Arnott Wp;Rogers Cf;Bowen Jl

  • Vehicle specific power approach to estimating on-road NH3 emissions from light-duty vehicles.

    Tao Huai;S Thomas D Durbin;Ted Younglove;George Scora

  • Real-world NOx emissions from heavy-duty diesel, natural gas, and diesel hybrid electric vehicles of different vocations on California roadways.

    Cavan McCaffery;Hanwei Zhu;Tianbo Tang;Tianbo Tang;Chengguo Li

Frequent Co-Authors

David R. Cocker
David R. Cocker University of California, Riverside
David B. Kittelson
David B. Kittelson University of Minnesota
Kanok Boriboonsomsin
Kanok Boriboonsomsin University of California, Riverside
Xiaoliang Wang
Xiaoliang Wang Desert Research Institute
Matthew Barth
Matthew Barth University of California, Riverside
Hans Moosmüller
Hans Moosmüller Desert Research Institute
Martin M. Shafer
Martin M. Shafer University of Wisconsin–Madison
William R. Pierson
William R. Pierson Desert Research Institute
John A. Gillies
John A. Gillies Desert Research Institute
F. J. Himpsel
F. J. Himpsel University of Wisconsin–Madison

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