Facilities

Engine and Emissions Research Facilities

Engine Emissions Measurement Instrumentation

• Sierra Instruments BG-1 Micro-Dilution Test Stand
• Sartorius M3P Precision Microbalance in an environmental test chamber (for weighing particulate filters)
• Nicolet Magna 550 FTIR Spectrometer
• Horiba On-Line Gas Analyzers for HC, CO and CO₂
• Hewlett Packard 6890 Gas Chromatograph with TCD and FID detectors
• R&P Co., Inc. Series 5100 Diesel Particulate Analyzer
• California Analytical HFID 300 THC analyzer
• LambdaScan Portable Lambda Sensor

Engines

• Yanmar TS180 single-cylinder, naturally aspirated, water-cooled, indirect injection (IDI) diesel engine, 15 hp rating
• General Motors 6.5 liter V-8 turbodiesel, indirect injection (IDI) engine
• Volkswagen 1.9 liter "TDI" turbo direct injection (DI) diesel engine
• Navistar T444E V-8 turbocharged, direct injection (DI) diesel engine
• Cummins B5.9L 6-Cylinder, direct injection (DI) turbodiesel engine
• Waukesha CFR Octane Rating Engine

• 50 Hp Clayton CAM-50 water brake dynamometer mounted on a movable cart and connected to a computerized data acquisition and control system
• Two 250 Hp eddy current dynamometer and test stand with computerized data acquisition and control, and integrated control of coolant and lubricant temperature
• 450 Hp eddy current dynamometer mounted in a sound reducing enclosure and connected to a computerized data acquisition and control system

Exhaust Aftertreatment

• Fixed bed flow reactor for catalyst conversion and selectivity studies
• Catalytic flow reactor for determination of catalyst reaction kinetics

Additional Analytical Instrumentation Available to Projects in the Energy Institute

• HP 5971A gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer tabletop system
• Waters high performance liquid chromatography system with photodiode array and UV detectors
• Carlo Erba high resolution gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer
• A DuPont 490B gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer fitted with capillary column and interfaced to a CDS Pyroprobe 1000 flash pyrolysis system
• Zeiss optical microscope and a digital image analysis system
• Several gas chromatographs including Perkin Elmer models 8500, 3920 and Autosystem GC, and three Hewlett Packard 5890 gas chromatographs
• Chemagnetics M-100 solid-state ¹³C NMR spectrometer
• Bruker AMX 360WB NMR system fitted with microimaging accessory
• Computer Chemical Systems 10000 supercritical fluid chromatograph
• Carlo Erba 1106 C,H,N,O Elemental Analyzer fitted with a Perkin Elmer Sigma 10 integrator/recording system
• SEM, TEM, FESEM and XRD equipment in the Materials Characterization Laboratory and the Materials Research Institute available on a fee-for-use basis

Schematic Diagram of the Single-Cylinder Engine Facility

Schematic Diagram of the 450 hp Engine Facility

Digital Photo of the Cummins B5.9 in the 250 hp Engine Test Stand

Digital Photo of the Navistar T444E V-8 Turbodiesel in the 450 hp Test Cell

Digital Photo of the Yanmar TS-180 Engine with Kistler CAM Encoder Installed

Digital Photo of the VW 1.9L TDI Engine in the 250 hp Engine Test Stand

Digital Photo of the Waukesha CFR Octane Rating Engine

Digital Photo of the Faculty/Staff Shuttle that will be Converted to Operation on Blends of DME and Diesel Fuel

(Peter Tijm of Air Products in foreground; Back from left to right: Prof. Boehman, Mike Nowak of FETC and John Winslow of FETC)