The impact on the environment caused by the burning of fuels from automotive vehicles, nowadays, acts as a restriction on the specification of the engine designe parameters in several countries. The use of ethyl acohol-ewater blends in Brazil has created the necessity of determining the pollutant emission pattern under typical design operating conditions aiming the stablishment of a pollution control policy. In this research, emissions from a monocylinder engine were measured, bassicaly ntric oxide, carbon monoxide and aldehydes. The engine was fueled with commercial gasoline and ethyl alcohol-water blends. The influence of the compression ratio, air-fuel ratio and water content of blens, on the perfomance of the engine and pollutant pattern was studied. A Kinetic model, taking into account CO and NO formations mechanisms, as well as acetaldehyde emissions was developed for digital computer calculations, matching the experimental results to the calculated ones. The, using this model, values of the pollutant emissions from internal combustion engines, fueled with ethyl alcohol-water blends were calculated showing a very well defined trend, which can be useful for pollution control policies.