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MARCH 29, 2011

The Car Training Institute (CTI) is organizing a conference on vehicle emission reduction—including both criteria pollutants and CO 2 —on 16-20 May 2011 in Detroit, MI. One day of the conference will be dedicated to provide an update on these cutting edge technologies. Regulators are requiring that.

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

Hyundai Motor Group is showcasing at the11 th Hyundai-Kia International Powertrain Conference two new powertrains fully developed in-house: the Gamma 1.6 T-GDI engine and Euro6 R-2.0 diesel engine. T-GDI engine, which was developed over a period of 52 months and cost 69.5 The Gamma 1.6 billion won (US$61.3 The Gamma 1.6

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At the 21 st Supercharging Conference in Dresden next week, Torotrak Group will present results from engine testing that verify previous claims for V-Charge, a variable drive mechanical supercharger. V-Charge system with mechanical variable drive outperforms conventional boosting methods on downsized gasoline engine.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Hakan Yilmaz, Global Technology Management, Gasoline Systems, for Bosch presented an overview of and update on the project at the 2011 DEER conference in Detroit in October. Start-stop and thermal management systems to eliminate fuel consumption at idling conditions and to enhance engine warm-up behavior. Source: Bosch.

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OCTOBER 31, 2009

Schematic model of a wave disk engine, showing combustion and shockwaves within the channels. The wave disc engine, a new implementation of wave rotor technology, was earlier developed by the Michigan State group in collaboration with researchers from the Warsaw Institute of Technology. The Wave Disc Engine. Source: MSU.

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JULY 5, 2017

Researchers at Feng Chia University in Taiwan have engineered the bacterium Escherichia coli to produce n-butanol from crude glycerol—a byproduct of the production of biodiesel. In an open-access paper in the journal Biotechnology for Biofuels , they report that under microaerobic conditions, the engineered strain produced 6.9

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OCTOBER 27, 2014

Researchers at the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have identified microbial genes that can improve both the tolerance and the production of isopentanol in engineered strains of Escherichia coli. coli that can confer tolerance to many candidate fuels.). These genes were then overexpressed in E.

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JULY 21, 2009

The acronym is the same, but the US Department of Energy’s renamed 15 th DEER conference ( DEER 2009 ), to be held in Dearborn, Michigan 3-6 August, will feature a greatly expanded program extending well beyond its origin in diesel engine emissions reduction to include other engine technologies, advanced combustion processes, and fuels.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

Rolf Reitz, are investigating a blended dual-fuel (gasoline and diesel) concept to extend the operating range of partially premixed charge compression ignition combustion by using the varying fuel reactivity of the charge blend, which is determined in real time. The horizontal axis shows the percentage of gasoline in the blend.

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DECEMBER 9, 2014

the developer of a family of efficient compression-ignition opposed-piston two-stroke (OP2S) engines ( earlier post ) has secured another contract with a leading global OEM. The company has customers located in the US, Japan, Europe, China and India and its current engine programs range from 45 hp to more than 5,000 hp.

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OCTOBER 11, 2013

The Automobile Division of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers has awarded its Prize for the Environment to Ricardo, Ford Motor Company, Controlled Power Technologies and Valeo engineers for their paper HyBoost—An Intelligently Electrified Optimized Downsized Gasoline Engine Concept. Earlier post.).

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JULY 25, 2016

IC Bus will demonstrate its Gasoline-Powered CE School Bus at the School Transportation News (STN) Expo Conference and Trade Show in Reno. V8 gasoline engine paired with commercial grade transmissions. V8 gasoline engine paired with commercial grade transmissions. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 8, 2017

Gasoline engines can operate lean to improve fuel economy, potentially reducing CO 2 emissions significantly. Further, advances in combustion development for gasoline have led to the potential for reduced engine-out NO x emissions for homogeneous lean operation compared to stratified lean operation.

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JANUARY 27, 2011

For the first time in more than a decade, BMW will once again offer a four-cylinder engine in the United States, said Jim O’Donnell, president BMW North America, in remarks at the Washington DC Auto Show. We know there is still great potential for the continuing development of the internal combustion engine. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 19, 2013

A study by a team from Ford Motor Company and AVL has concluded that a mid-level ethanol blend—greater than E20 but less than E40—appears to be attractive as a long-term future fuel for the US for use in engines optimized for the higher octane blend. These include: Lower energy content than that of gasoline. Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Martin Wissink from the team presented a paper on the work at the ASME 2012 Internal Combustion Engine Division Fall Technical Conference in Vancouver, BC, this week. CR Gasoline, in which gasoline was injected through the higher-pressure common rail injector, allowing for much later injections of large quantities of gasoline.

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JULY 2, 2010

Dehydrating n-butanol can produce 1-Butene derivatives, says CEO Rick Wilson, which can then be relatively easily processed to hydrocarbon fuels: via alkylation to gasoline, or via oligomerization to jet fuel and diesel. Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. Earlier post.). Global Bioenergies. Earlier post.). Joule Unlimited.

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OCTOBER 1, 2012

Findings in a study by a team from Texas A&M and Enerpulse ( earlier post ) suggest that pulsed energy spark plugs may be able to serve as enabling technology to support the mainstream deployment of advanced, ultra-clean and ultra-efficient spark ignition internal combustion engines. —Jacobs et al.

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MARCH 17, 2022

A few weeks before its world premiere and during the BMW Group Annual Conference, Frank Weber, Member of the Board of Management of BMW AG for Development, presented a few details about the coming new BMW 7 Series, including the new all-electric BMW i7. This new generation of diesel and gasoline engines offers higher efficiency.

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MAY 24, 2012

Andreas Malikopoulos at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is leading an effort to enable an automobile engine to function as an autonomous intelligent system capable of learning and realizing its optimal calibration in real-time under different conditions while the driver is driving. Background. transient operation.

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JUNE 15, 2010

The US Conference of Mayors adopted a resolution at its 78 th Annual Meeting calling on the Federal government to accelerate its support for natural gas vehicles. The resolution calls for the following specific initiatives: Enact the New Alternative to Give Americans Solutions (NAT GAS) Act (S.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Nissan’s e-POWER electrified powertrain ( earlier post ), available in the Serena minivan ( earlier post ), has been named Technology of the Year for 2019 by the Automotive Researchers’ and Journalists’ Conference of Japan (RJC). liter engine. km/L (62 mpg US, 3.8 l/100 km), Nº 1 in its class.

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AUGUST 10, 2009

Additionally, suggested one of the speakers, advanced SIDI (spark-ignited, direct-injection) engines can take light-duty market share back from diesels in Europe based on the same trends. Bin 5 engine out is what we’ll need, and then to get it down to Bin 2. SULEV/Tier 2 Bin 2 is the target. smog and particulates. Robert Czarnowski.

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DECEMBER 17, 2014

The new Sonata Hybrid features an upgraded powertrain incorporating a new hybrid system with a new gasoline direct injection engine that delivers fuel economy of 18.2 liter GDI (gasoline direct injection) hybrid engine mated to a 38 kW electric motor (up 3 kW—8.6%—from km/l (43 mpg US or 5.5 l/100 km).

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JUNE 8, 2011

The report, being released as part of the LowCVP Annual Conference 2011 on 9 June, highlights the increasing importance of accounting for whole life carbon emissions to compare the greenhouse gas emissions of low carbon vehicles. Standard gasoline vehicle. —Greg Archer, LowCVP Managing Director. Estimated lifecycle. emissions in.

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OCTOBER 25, 2012

Hyundai Motor Group this week outlined its latest powertrain technologies and future plans at the 12 th Hyundai-Kia International Powertrain Conference, held near the Hyundai Motor Group R&D Center in Korea. In keeping with the trend to downsizing, Hyundai has been expanding the application of Turbo Gasoline Direct Injection (T-GDI) engines.

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JANUARY 1, 2011

A 1966 article in ACS’ Chemical & Engineering News described a General Motors press conference at which the automaker outlined research work being done on non-gasoline-based automotive power sources, with a heavy emphasis on the electrical. Electrovan—a hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell-powered GMC van. 24, page 55).

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APRIL 20, 2011

American Suzuki Motor Corporation (ASMC) unveiled a gasoline-electric concept variant of its Kizashi sedan at the company’s 2011 New York International Auto Show (NYIAS) press conference. liter inline-four gasoline engine, working in tandem with a belt-driven, liquid-cooled 15-kW motor/generator unit tied to a 115-volt, 0.5

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NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Investigations of the fuels’ autoignition tendency were carried out on a rapid compression machine (RCM); thermodynamic investigations were conducted on a direct injection spark ignition single cylinder research engine. These in turn were screened for oxygenates comprising a set of engine-relevant fuel properties. 2015.11.039.

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DECEMBER 19, 2009

The Korea National Joint Conference of Taxi Association will select participating taxi companies and support the monitoring of its operation. A total of ten taxis are deployed across five taxi companies in Seoul; the companies were selected by the Korea National Joint Conference of Taxi Association.

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APRIL 21, 2017

Simona Onori, an assistant professor at Clemson University, has received a $500,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation to advance her work to develop integrated modeling and control for aftertreatment systems to reduce fine-particle emissions from gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

liter Ford EcoBoost turbocharged direct injection gasoline engine. The first engine in the EcoBoost line, a 3.5L, V6 engine ( earlier post ), is being applied in the 2010 Ford Taurus SHO and Flex and Lincoln MKS and MKT. liter, four-cylinder EcoBoost engine mated to a dual-clutch Powershift Transmission.

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MAY 4, 2012

A team from Syracuse University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is exploring the use of supercritical (SC) dieseline (a diesel-gasoline blend) as an optimized fuel for advanced diesel engine designs. George Anitescu of Syracuse University, who is leading the SC dieseline work. (Dr.

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APRIL 19, 2009

For both categories, teams could use any conventionally available energy source, including fuels such as diesel, gasoline and liquid petroleum gas (LPG), as well as alternative fuels such as hydrogen, biomass and solar. The UrbanConcept entries included two vehicles powered by combustion engines and one by solar power. Solar Power.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

hardened engine platform, can also run on ordinary gasoline. Engineered at the new Westport technical facility in Plymouth Michigan, WiNG systems will be installed and the trucks will be ready to roll when they reach authorized Ford dealers. The F-250 and F-350 pickup trucks, based on Ford’s new 6.2L

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APRIL 18, 2011

Achates Power, the developer of a two-stroke, compression-ignition (CI) opposed-piston opposed-cylinder (OPOC) engine ( earlier post ) is now “concept-ready”, David Johnson, Achates Power CEO, told GCC in an interview at SAE 2011 World Congress in Detroit. The Achates engine. —Johnson et al.

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APRIL 5, 2010

Daimler is also considering supplying large-displacement gasoline and diesel engines to Nissan, Japan’s third-largest automaker which is owned 44.3 Kyodo News reports that the Renault-Nissan Alliance has basically agreed on a capital and business tie-up deal with Daimler AG, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter.

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