Present Challenges in Catalytic Emission Control for Internal Combustion Engines

Catalytic converters for exhaust emission control of commercial equipment powered by internal combustion engines.

The development of PTX, monolithic catalytic exhaust purifiers, is outlined, and their first use for exhaust emissions control of commercial equipment is described. The main use of PTX converters is on forklift trucks. The purification achievable with PTX-equipped fork-lift trucks under various operational conditions is discussed, and examples from the field are given. During more than ten year...

Transient combustion control of internal combustion engines

This thesis addresses the problem of combustion control for automotive engines. A method is proposed to complement existing controllers, which use lookup tables based on steady-state operation. During transients, the new control method adjusts fast control variables (ignition or injection time) to compensate for deviations in the cylinder initial conditions from their optimal values due to the ...

Particulate Emission from Internal Combustion Engines

In this work, number concentration and size distribution at the exhaust of a Port Fuel Injection (PFI) Spark Ignition (SI) engine downstream a three-way catalyst and a Direct Injection Common Rail Diesel engine have been measured with two particle size instruments. The gas exhaust is first diluted, a nano DMA is used to obtain the particles size distribution function in the 3-60 nm range, in pa...

Internal Combustion Engines

Ethanol Internal Combustion Engines

Ethanol Internal Combustion Engines HIGHLIGHTS PROCESS AND TECHNOLOGY STATUS – The use of biofuels (e.g. bio-ethanol and biodiesel) in the transport sector can save significant amounts of fossil fuels and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Internal combustion engines (ICEs) can run on bio-ethanol manufactured from biomass or waste through biochemical processes. Agricultural feedstock such as sugar...