I-Corps: Flame Luminosity Analyzer for Measuring Sooting Tendency of Fuels

I-Corps：用于测量燃料烟灰倾向的火焰光度分析仪

• 批准号: 1806146
• 负责人: Charles McEnally
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Yale University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1806146&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Flame; Luminosity; Analyzer; Measuring

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is to create a product that will facilitate assessment of transportation fuels to ensure they will pass fuel specification tests. In particular, the project will provide a device that producers can use to more accurately determine whether their fuels will meet the specifications for soot/smoke emissions and should create a framework that allows fuel specifications for particulate matter (PM) emissions to be defined more precisely. This will benefit the fuels industry by reducing costs and increasing certainty. It will also enable them to confidently introduce alternative fuels that have lower PM emissions.This I-Corps project further develops an instrument that characterizes the sooting propensity of a fuel by its soot luminosity. Unlike the methods currently in use, this technology allows a quantitative measurement to be fully automated and performed online. It will deliver more accurate results faster than existing qualitative methods while requiring less sample. Extensive academic research has verified that this approach correctly detects the effect of fuel composition on PM emissions. This I-Corps project will explore the commercial potential of this instrument across a variety of potential customer segments.

这个I-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是创建一个产品，将有助于评估运输燃料，以确保它们将通过燃料规格测试。特别是，该项目将提供一种设备，生产商可以使用该设备更准确地确定其燃料是否符合烟尘/烟雾排放的规格，并应创建一个框架，允许更精确地定义颗粒物（PM）排放的燃料规格。这将通过降低成本和增加确定性而使燃料行业受益。这也将使他们能够自信地引入具有较低PM排放的替代燃料。I-Corps项目进一步开发了一种通过其烟灰光度来表征燃料的烟灰倾向的仪器。与目前使用的方法不同，该技术允许完全自动化并在线进行定量测量。它将比现有的定性方法更快地提供更准确的结果，同时需要更少的样本。广泛的学术研究已经证实，这种方法可以正确地检测燃料成分对PM排放的影响。 这个I-Corps项目将在各种潜在客户群中探索这种工具的商业潜力。