Idle speed control in a fuel-injection engine system has focused on controlling long-term averages of engine speed, but short-term fluctuations of engine speed have been neglected. The torque differences among cylinders influence the idle stability and cause vibration of the vehicle. In this paper, we introduce two intelligent control systems to reduce the fluctuations of engine speed at idle, ...

Reducing the exhaust emissions of an spark ignition engine by means of engine modifications requires consideration of the effects of these modifications on the variations of crankshaft torque and the engine roughness respectively. Only if the roughness does not exceed a certain level the vehicle do not begin to surge. This paper presents a method for controlling the air-fuel ratio for a lean bu...

A numerical study on the influence of forward-facing cavity length upon forward-facing cavity and opposing jet combined thermal protection system (TPS) cooling efficiency under hypersonic flow is conducted, by means of which the flow field parameters, heat flux distribution along the outer body surface are obtained. The numerical simulation results are validated by experiments and the cooling e...

The environmental performance of a combined cooling, heating, and power system is analyzed in this study at component-level using SPECO-based exergoenvironmental analysis. engine consumes natural gas produces 168.6 kW net power. waste heat recovered by LiBr-H2O absorption chiller exchanger, which are used for cooling heating purposes. energy assisted solar field. An Life Cycle Assessment quanti...

Accurate evaluation of vehicles' transient total power requirement helps achieving further improvements in vehicle fuel efficiency. When operated, the air-conditioning (A/C) system is the largest auxiliary load on a vehicle, therefore accurate evaluation of the load it places on the vehicle's engine and/or energy storage system is especially important. Vehicle simulation models, such as “Autono...

This study applied a model predictive control (MPC) framework to solve the cruising control problem of a series hydraulic hybrid vehicle (SHHV). The controller not only regulates vehicle velocity, but also engine torque, engine speed, and accumulator pressure to their corresponding reference values. At each time step, a quadratic programming problem is solved within a predictive horizon to obta...

The paper presents an application of an on-board recording system for critical situation detection in railroad transportation. The evaluation of the state of a rail vehicle is based on the signals recorded with the use of ORD (On-Board Recording Devices) devices. The main subject of interest are critical situations that can occur when the rail vehicle is in motion. The critical situation is any...