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Ricardo demos real-world driving emissions testing at Air Quality show

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Ricardo launched its vehicle emission measurement service in April 2017. This data promises to play an important role in providing cities and local authorities with the insight they need to develop Clean Air Zones and other air pollution mitigation measures.

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Sandia, TUD optical diagnostic helps reduce emissions while improving fuel economy

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Time sequence of images in a Sandia National Laboratories project that shows the extinction of light caused by a soot cloud formed during the injection of a diesel spray. The acquired data provides important insights into the fuel spray motion as well as the timing and quantity of soot formed under a wide range of conditions.

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Groupe PSA, T&E, FNE and Bureau Veritas develop accurate real-world fuel consumption test protocol

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Although inspired by the Real World Driving Emissions (RDE) legislation now used to meet the Euro 6 emission standards the Protocol is more robust and provides insights into how representative of real-world driving the RDE tests are, according to the report. l/100km less than a gasoline one. 100km) and gasoline (2.5

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New KOSi method for ultra-deep desulfurization of fuels to ~ 2ppm S

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Scientists led by a team at Caltech and BP, and in collaboration with researchers at UCLA, ETH Zürich, and China’s Nanjing University, have developed a new method for potentially removing nearly all sulfur compounds (down to ~2 ppm) from gas and diesel fuel. These issues pose a formidable challenge for the development of new HDS methods.

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Lightning Hybrids renames itself Lightning Systems; rollout of new lineup of fleet efficiency products

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The system is available now with the Lightning Hybrids system, and will be available standalone in Fall 2017. This is achieved through high-frequency recording of many real-time parameters from the vehicle, followed by expert data analysis, resulting in reports that provide insights and actionable recommendations for fleets.

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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

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Large commercial trucks and other heavy equipment have run on diesel fuel for many decades now. But today, heavy trucks remain a diesel world. Among its first announced customers, back in December 2017, was Pepsi, which reserved 100 of the trucks and plans to use them in the California regions of Modesto and Sacramento.

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Linde pilot testing dry reforming process to generate syngas from CO2 and methane for production of fuels and chemicals

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The insights we gain will help us further improve reforming processes and concepts for our customers. If the dry reforming pilot proves successful, there are plans to commercialize the process when the funded project comes to an end in 2017 and to build a reference plant for a Linde customer. Milanov, A., Schunk, S. Behrens, A.

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