“…Although several research programs have been carried out in the last decade on the performance and emissions of CI engines, fuelled with pure biodiesel and blends with diesel fuel, most scientific literature has dealt in the past with engines equipped with conventional injection systems [8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15], and even if more recent works also examined engines with high pressure, electronically controlled injection systems [16,17,18,19,20], only few studies concerning last generation automotive engines are available. Moreover, experimental activities reported in literature are usually carried out running the engine with the original, diesel oriented, ECU calibration; a specifically adjusted ECU calibration optimized for biodiesel is rarely used [21] and the gap in engine torque output is usually recovered by increasing the torque demand through an increase of the accelerator pedal position, thus simulating a switch of the supplied fuel.…”