Abstract The purpose of this work is to investigate the performance in terms electric power and efficiency a 11kW bio-diesel internal combustion engine (ICE) coupled with micro Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) both design off-design conditions. A zero dimensional (0D) thermodynamical model has been developed predict thermal 100% biodiesel fuel (B100). B100 selected for analysis integrated system due...

Towards a Stronger Simulation Support for Engine Control Design: a Methodological Point of View — Thanks to a specific crank angle degree modelling approach and to an accurate simulator calibration, it is nowadays possible to build a complete simulator which allows the control engineer to access to numerous engine variables, especially non measurable values, and to perform tests over a wide ran...

Advanced model-based control architecture overcomes the limitations state-of-the-art engine control and provides the potential of virtual sensors, for example for thrust and stall margin. “Tracking filters” are used to adapt the control parameters to actual conditions and to individual engines. For health monitoring standalone monitoring units will be used for on-board analysis to determine the...