The nitrogen oxides (NOx) emission standard has become more stringent in the past decade due to the critical global air pollution. In order to reduce the amount of NOx generated from automobiles, impr....
We summarize results from comparative simulations of hybrid electric vehicles with either stoichiometric gasoline or diesel engines. Our simulations utilize previously published models of transient en....
Ash inside a honeycomb-configured diesel particulate filter (DPF) inlet channel accumulates both as a cake layer along the channel walls and as a “plug” towards the back of the channel. Experimental s....
A three-dimensional (3-D) computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code has been developed to predict flow dynamics and pressure drop characteristics in geometry-modified filters in which the normalized dis....
The purpose of this study is to improve the carbon monoxide (CO) and total hydrocarbons (THC) conversion efficiency of a diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC) by enhancing the monolith thermal behaviour thr....
This paper focuses on the development of an Extended Kalman Filter for estimating internal species concentration and storage states of an SCR using NOX and NH₃ sensors. The motivation for this work wa....
In a typical diesel engine exhaust aftertreatment system consisting of a diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC), a diesel particulate filter (DPF) and a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system the main pu....
In exhaust systems with selective catalytic reduction (SCR) a fast conversion of liquid urea to gaseous ammonia and a uniform distribution of the ammonia vapor upstream of the SCR catalyst are essenti....
Urea-selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalysts are the leading aftertreatment technology for diesel engines, but there are major challenges associated with meeting future NOx emission standards, e....
Recent regulatory requirements have introduced, for the first time, catalyst exhaust systems with closed loop air/fuel control into the severe environment of stern-drive and inboard-powered pleasure m....
In order to further characterize and optimize the performance of Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) aftertreatment systems used on heavy-duty diesel engines, an accurately calibrated high-fidelity mu....
The presented work describes how numerical modeling techniques were extended to simulate a full Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) NOx aftertreatement system. Besides predicting ammonia-to-NOX ratio ....
Numerical modeling of aftertreatment systems has been proven to reduce development time as well as to facilitate understanding of the internal physical and chemical processes occurring during differen....
In this paper, we develop a method for optimizing urea dosing to minimize the downstream readings from a production NOx sensor that has cross-sensitivity to ammonia. This approach favors high NOx conv....
A Three-Way Catalyst (TWC) model with global TWC kinetics for lean burn DISI engines were developed and validated. The model incorporates kinetics of hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide oxidations, NOx r....
Emissions sample probes are widely used in engine and vehicle emissions development testing. Tailpipe bag summary data is used for certification, but the time-resolved (or modal) emissions data at var....