MRI: Aquisition of Fast Response Gas Analysis Equipment For Advanced Automotive Emission Control and Diagnostic System

这笔核磁共振资金将用于创建一个最先进的实验设施，用于动态测量、建模、诊断和控制瞬时汽车排放。催化尾气后处理系统在减少汽车排放方面发挥着关键作用，但为了满足日益严格的立法环境目标(如SULEV或OBD II中规定的)，现在有必要将其动态行为纳入车载发动机控制和诊断系统。为了在实验上测量和模拟这些动态，需要最先进的双通道、快速响应的气体分析设备。核磁共振赠款还将用于购买一个硬件/软件系统，用于数据采集，以及对发动机管理和诊断系统的快速原型访问，以便能够实施和测试所开发的算法。据信，目前全世界(学术界)只有四个设施具有快速反应气体分析能力，其中一个是由首席研究员在英国苏塞克斯大学建造的。具有发动机、电子控制和催化后处理元件的系统固有的跨学科特性反映在来自维拉诺瓦大学工程学院机械、化学和电气与计算机工程系的跨部门调查团队中。对于这些系中的每一个，该设施将有力地提高本科生和硕士学生对某一地理区域的汽车行业的接触，而该地区在这方面是薄弱的。该设施将是一个地区性资源，并得到德雷克塞尔大学和坦普尔大学以及当地行业的支持。工业支持和成本分摊来自汽车行业的广泛领域，包括最终用户福特汽车公司、国际汽车咨询公司Ricardo Inc.、当地咨询公司、环境公司和当地催化剂制造商强生马泰。

This MRI grant will be used to create a state-of-the-art experimental facility for dynamic measurement, modeling, diagnosis and control of transient automotive emissions. Catalytic exhaust after-treatment systems play a key role in reducing automotive emissions, but to meet increasingly stringent legislated environmental targets, (as specified in SULEV or OBD II for example), it is now necessary to incorporate their dynamic behavior within the on-board engine control and diagnostic system. To measure and model these dynamics experimentally requires the state-of-the-art, dual-channel, fast-response gas analysis equipment. The MRI grant will also be used to acquire a hardware/software system for data acquisition, and for rapid prototyping access to the engine management and diagnostic system, in order to be able to implement and test the algorithms developed. It is believed that there are currently only four facilities worldwide (within academia) that have fast response gas analysis capability, one of which was constructed at the University of Sussex (UK), by the principal investigator. The interdisciplinarity inherent in a system which has an engine, electronic control, and the catalytic after-treatment elements is reflected in the cross-departmental team of investigators who come from the Mechanical, Chemical, and Electrical & Computer Engineering departments within the College of Engineering at Villanova University. For each of these departments, the facility would strongly enhance the Undergraduate and Masters student exposure to the automotive industry in a geographic area, which is weak in this regard. The facility will be a regional resource, and is supported by Drexel and Temple Universities as well as local industry. Industrial support and cost share comes from a broad cross-section of the automotive industry including end user Ford Motor Company, international automotive consultants Ricardo Inc., locally based consultants, Environex, and local catalyst manufacturer Johnson Matthey.