Fullerene-Like Soot from EuroIV Diesel Engine: Consequences for Catalytic Automotive Pollution Control

Fullerene-like Soot from EURO-IV Diesel Engine: Consequences for Catalytic Automotive Pollution Control

Soot particulates are sampled from a EURO-IV standards diesel engine and investigated by high-resolution electron microscopy (HRTEM) and thermal gravimetry (TG). The experiments reveal a drastic reduction of primary particle size down to less than 20 nm, much smaller than that emitted by earlier diesel engines (EURO I-III). HRTEM reveals primary particles with deformed fullerenoid structures. T...

Soot Modeling in Diesel Engine

This paper presents an advanced version of the original software developed by the author in order to simulate the combustion in the Diesel engines, focusing on simulate soot formation. Complex kinetic mechanisms are need for realistic modeling of shoot formations, but this is applicable only for simple flame computations (e.g. one dimensional, laminar, etc.). For real turbulent flame calculatio...

Neural Modeling and Control of Diesel Engine with Pollution Constraints

Variable Cam Timing: Consequences to Automotive Engine Control Design

Abstract: One objective of this paper is to illuminate fuel economy and emission improvement mechanisms of variable cam timing systems and analyze their effects on engine control system design. By retarding or advancing the cam phase one can vary the engine volumetric efficiency, as well as the amount of exhaust gas that dilutes the air charge. Combining these effects with intake manifold and e...

Residual generator fuzzy identification for automotive diesel engine fault diagnosis

Safety in dynamic processes is a concern of rising importance, especially if people would be endangered by serious system failure. Moreover, as the control devices which are now exploited to improve the overall performance of processes include both sophisticated control strategies and complex hardware (input-output sensors, actuators, components and processing units), there is an increased prob...