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MAY 23, 2016

ULEMCo, the developer of a hydrogen-diesel dual fuel conversion system for commercial vehicles, has delivered its first hydrogen dual-fuel refuse vehicles to Fife Council in Scotland. A diesel pilot injection initiates combustion of the hydrogen, which is stored onboard at 350 bar. InTech, doi: 10.5772/54613.

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AUGUST 7, 2017

Series-production plug-in hybrid electric vehicles equipped with diesel engines are already available in the market or planned for the future (e.g., Volvo V60, Audi Q7 e-tron quattro, Peugeot 508 RXH Hybrid4, Range Rover SDV6 Hybrid Diesel). A variation of the approach could be used for gasoline PHEVs.)

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JUNE 22, 2010

The Capstone C30 Liquid Fuel microturbine is the only engine certified to the CARB emissions levels that went into effect for Model Year 2010 On-Road Heavy-Duty Diesel Engines to operate on diesel fuel with no exhaust aftertreatment, including urea injection or exhaust catalyst.

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JULY 22, 2010

million for emerging technologies projects as part of a summer-long roll-out of $120 million in clean diesel grants. The awards will provide opportunities to advance new technologies in the marketplace, and support both environmental innovation and green jobs to reduce diesel emissions. Diesel engines emit approximately 7.3

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

It is very likely that highly efficient “fully flexible” engines with hybridized solutions will be a big part of sought-after efficiency improvements, as well as emission/GHG reductions. A transition from the gasoline or diesel ICE to a full gasoline/diesel hybrid can significantly reduce emissions. —Reitz et al.

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JUNE 3, 2017

In a new study, a team from UCLA, with colleagues from the California Air Resources Board (ARB) and West Virginia University, measured total particle number emission factors (PNEFs) from six newly certified heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) powered by diesel and CNG totaling over 6,800 miles of on-road operation in California. 6b06464.

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DECEMBER 20, 2016

Heavy-duty electric truck builder Orange EV announced that fleets in California can purchase a new T-Series pure electric terminal truck for less than the cost of a new Tier 4 diesel truck. HVIP provides incentives for zero-emission and hybrid trucks and buses and low NO x natural gas engines.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) announced an additional $72.5 The Air Resources Board will move $8 million from other clean vehicle projects into ARB’s Truck Loan Assistance Program. million to help California consumers purchase plug-in hybrid and zero-emission cars and light trucks.

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JUNE 11, 2019

The Manufacturers of Emission Controls Association (MECA) released a report assessing market-ready technologies being commercialized by suppliers of emission control and efficiency components for heavy-duty diesel vehicles to meet lower intermediate standards for oxides of nitrogen (NO x ) by 2024 as a transition to final standards in 2027.

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DECEMBER 4, 2017

liter engine that is certified by the California Air Resources Board and the US Environmental Protection Agency to meet or exceed optional and more stringent near zero standards. When diesel buses were standard throughout the industry, LBT was an early adopter of particulate traps to prevent harmful matter from escaping from the exhaust.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) will deliver two technical papers at SAE World Congress in April on its SpeedStart torque assist and kinetic energy recovery system ( earlier post ) and TIGERS turbine integrated gas energy recovery system ( earlier post ) for 48V mild hybrid vehicles. Earlier post.)

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MAY 1, 2014

Although hybrid buses provide net GHG reductions and air quality improvements, associated costs are higher and more uncertain than emission retrofits. For the lean-burn CNG scenario, this meant considering exhaust and pipeline supply leaks. and 0% for the EGRD and SCRT scenarios, respectively.

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DECEMBER 27, 2010

Capstone Turbine Corporation has released configurations of the C30 compressed natural gas (CNG) microturbine that meet or exceed emissions standards, including the US Environmental Protection Agency and California Air Resources Board (CARB) 2010 requirements for On-Road Heavy Duty Diesel Engines (HDDE) for Urban Bus. Earlier post.)

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DECEMBER 9, 2013

While technologies for low carbon buses such as hybridization offer the prospect of significant reductions in fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions compared to conventionally powered vehicles, the improvement in terms of regulated emissions (criteria pollutants) may not be as great, according to a new report by Ricardo.

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APRIL 13, 2012

Global-mean temperature change caused by car exhaust emitted from gasoline and diesel engines specified in the previous and upcoming European vehicle emission standards (EURO 3, 4, 5, and 6). However, previous studies have shown more prolonged warming due to diesel cars under various conditions. Credit: ACS, Tanaka et al.

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JULY 29, 2010

Capstone Turbine Corporation has initiated a demonstration project with a major US manufacturer of Class 5 through Class 8 heavy duty trucks that will utilize a Capstone 65 kW microturbine as a range extender in a hybrid electric drive system. Tags: Electric (Battery) Engines Heavy-duty Hybrids. Earlier post.). Source: Capstone.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Projected conditions for internal combustion engines in 2025 push light-duty engine exhaust temperatures into the low end of gas turbine regimes, Haynes said. The increasing piston, cylinder, head, exhaust valve and turbocharger temperatures represent significant structural materials—and cost—challenges.

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DECEMBER 2, 2016

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, named LiquidPiston , developer of engines based on its High Efficiency Hybrid Cycle (HEHC) ( earlier post ), as the winner of the 7 th Entrepreneurial Challenge. The cycle has a theoretical efficiency of 75% using air-standard assumptions and first-law analysis. Daniele Littera, et al.

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OCTOBER 25, 2015

Germany’s Bild am Sonntag reported today that Volkswagen AG has suspended Hanno Jelden, Head of the Main Department for Powertrain Electronics, Powertrain Development as a result of the ongoing investigation into the diesel emission software cheating scandal. Jelden would not comment to Bild. (As Dr. Martin Winterkorn. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 24, 2012

diesel engine and will use Cummins Westport’s proven, spark-ignited, stoichiometric-cooled exhaust gas recirculation (SEGR) technology. G, which is expected to be in production by 2015, will be designed to meet Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and California Air Resources Board (CARB) regulations in force when it is launched.

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DECEMBER 14, 2016

LiquidPiston, a developer of advanced combustion engine technology, received the award for the first phase of a program to realize the full capability of its patented high-efficiency hybrid cycle (HEHC) engine. hp/lb, making it up to ten times (10x) more powerful than a standard diesel engine with the same weight. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

liter ELC-Hybrid to downsized 1.4L VTES + SpeedStart. CPT and AVL’s most recent work assesses the potential of a VTES equipped downsized ELC-Hybrid vehicle in combination with the CPT SpeedStart Integrated Starter Generator ( earlier post ) and the UltraBattery. Click to enlarge. common rail TDI engine.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

CO 2 and NO x certification test data for heavy-duty diesel engines certified from 2002 through 2019. —“Technology Feasibility for Heavy-Duty Diesel Trucks in Achieving 90% Lower NO x Standards in 2027”. Source of data: US EPA (2019). Chart: MECA. NO x is a precursor for both ground level ozone and secondary PM 2.5

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Among the engine’s potential applications are power washers, electric generators, lawn equipment, welders, marine propulsion and possibly some hybrid vehicles. The K6 engine uses six strokes instead of four to reduce the pressure of exhaust gases, which allows it to harvest more energy rather than expelling it with the gas.

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MAY 9, 2015

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has posted a discussion document. This would also result in larger concentrations of zero-emission buses that may allow for a more robust program with pooled resources and for strategic bus placements where the technology can be most effective and successful in current transit operations.

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MAY 23, 2009

Schematic of downsized and supercharged four-stroke hybrid pneumatic spark injection engine. In the pneumatic hybridization scheme, each cylinder is connected via a fully variable charge valve to a shared pressure tank. The engine has two intake and two exhaust valves per cylinder. Source: ETH Zürich. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 20, 2012

A new report highlights the results of research work carried out by Ricardo and TRL on behalf of the UK Department for Transport, exploring the means by which improvements in diesel fuel efficiency could be realized within the rail network of Great Britain. A gas exchange system upgrade for DMUs.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2009

Additional diesel PM reductions in 18 major CA railyards with five new locomotive measures. The California Air Resources Board directed its staff to take steps to provide further locomotive and rail yard emission reductions beyond those achieved by existing US Environmental Protection Agency and state regulations and agreements.

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OCTOBER 30, 2019

The advancement of new multifuel diesel engine technologies can potentially open the marine fuel market for bioethanol, but it will be decades before these technologies can be found in a larger number of the vessels. CyclOx is a diesel fuel made by mixing cyclohexanone with diesel. The oxygen content is lowered to.

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APRIL 9, 2010

(MHI) has completed its first unit of the STG (Super Turbo Generating) System, a marine-use, high-efficiency, combined power generation system that utilizes waste heat and the exhaust gas from diesel engines. a hybrid boost. a hybrid boost. The STG System (Super Turbo Generating System). Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 9, 2010

will publicly reveal the architecture of its High Efficiency Hybrid Cycle (HEHC) engine. The thermodynamic efficiency of the HEHC cycle offers a 20% to 50% improvement over the best diesel engines, according to the company. Imagine what you could do with a light weight, quiet, 20 HP diesel engine the size of a shoe box.”.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

CryoPower is based on the use of a separate induction and compression cylinder from that used for combustion and exhaust. This enables recovery of otherwise wasted exhaust heat to the working gas after the end of compression. Heavy-duty trucks are an essential element of the transportation mix of modern industrialized society.

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OCTOBER 31, 2009

About the size of a large cooking pot, the novel, hyper-efficient engine could replace current engine/generator technologies for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. In 1986, Mazda introduced the Mazda 626 Cappela model, which had a 2-liter diesel engine equipped with a Comprex wave rotor (from BBC) used as a supercharger. Hîrceagã, M.,

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AUGUST 22, 2017

In this way, the cost of exhaust-gas treatment can be reduced, Bosch adds. Bosch has calculated that, up to a lifetime mileage of 160,000 kilometers, the total cost of ownership of a hybrid running on synthetic fuel could be less than that of a long-range electric car, depending on the type of renewable energy used. Earlier post.)

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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. Tim Johnson, from Corning, in his review of diesel emission control technology at the conference, started as is his practice by a quick regulatory review.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin, led by Dr. 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. Source: Rolf Reitz.

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JUNE 23, 2011

The recuperated engine uses isothermal compression via cryogenic injection to enable significant exhaust to compressed gas heat transfer. Recuperator to transfer heat from exhaust gas to compressed air. Example of a recuperated diesel cycle with high compression ratio and isothermal compression. Source: Neville Jackson.

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