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Texas Research Group Targets Powertrain Efficiency/Emissions
The Advanced Combustion Catalyst and Aftertreatment Technologies (AC2AT) consortium, which is launching its second year of operations, plans to focus its 2016 efforts on improving catalytic aftertreatment and fuel efficiency strategies for high-performance, high-efficiency gasoline and diesel engines.
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Catalytic aftertreatment and fuel efficiency strategies for high-performance, high-efficiency gasoline and diesel engines will be the focus in 2016 of the year-old Advanced Combustion Catalyst and Aftertreatment Technologies (AC2AT) consortium.
The public-private group is led by the San Antonio, Tex.-based Southwest Research Institute’s Engine, Emissions, and Vehicle Research Div. This year the consortium worked on basic emissions research.
Second-year programs will include modeling emission control systems that use urea and selective catalytic reduction, and characterizing the chemistry of emissions from advanced combustion systems. Researchers will evaluate techniques for treating low-temperature exhaust gas emissions and model the effect on aftertreatment systems of ash emissions associated with oil ingestion.
Consortium members, which include engine manufacturers and associated businesses, receive a royalty-free license for patents received by Southwest researchers during the program. Annual membership for the four-year program costs $95,000.
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