Quantifying the benefit of on-board PV for passenger cars

Quantifying the benefit of VIPV

Vehicle integrated photovoltaics: evaluation of the energy yield potential through monitoring and modelling

Electric vehicles are destined to become the main form of people transport in the near future. They are noise and emission free with the potential to offer completely zero-emission use when the energy used to charge their batteries is generated from renewable resources. On-board PV, PV that is integrated into the body of the car is a novel...

Development of a rapid ageing technique for modern methane combustion catalysts in the laboratory: Why does SO2 concentration play an essential role?

In pursuance to decrease emissions of transportation sector, the durability and longevity of modern catalysts has become a topical issue. Understanding the deactivation of catalysts is especially urgent. Our aim in this study was to clarify the roles of reaction temperature and SO2 concentration in methane combustion catalyst poisoning....

NH3 Measurements for Advanced SCR Applications

Since the introduction of Euro IV legislation [1, 2], Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) technology using liquid urea injection is (one of) the primary methods for NOx reduction in many applications. Ammonia (NH3) is the reagent and key element for the SCR system and its control calibration to meet all operational requirements. TNO and Horiba...

Final report of the research program (VTP1) on an emissions and CO2 test procedure for heavy duty hybrids (HDH)

Hybrid Carlab: Realisation and testing of a series hybrid vehicle

TNO Automotive has developed a series hybrid powertrain and successfully integrated it in a Volkswagen New Beetle. This project, called Hybrid CarLab, has the following goals: Benchmark of the fuel consumption, emissions and driveability of a series hybrid vehicle compared to a conventional vehicle over a range of different driving cycles;...

ADVANCE, a modular vehicle simulation environment in MATLAB/SIMULINK

This paper presents the development of a hybrid electric powertrain test platform. In the development process use has been made of ADVANCE, a modular vehicle simulation environment in MATLAB/Simulink. The background, philosophy, and the concept of the ADVANCE tool are discussed and a brief introduction on how to work with the tool is given. Some...

Comparative assessment of fuel consumption for conventional and hybrid vehicles

ADVANCE, a modular simulation environment for vehicle and powertrain design and analysis

TNO ADVANCE: A modular simulation tool for combined chassis and powertrain analysis

In this paper TNO-Advance is presented. It is built in a modular way, therefore allowing quick assembling of specific vehicle configurations and easy integration of new component models and future evolutions of existing models. Its entensive library is built in Matlab/Simulink, taking advantage of its flexible and open architecture, the...

Simulation of a vehicle with an ICE, CVT and ISG powertrain: A pre-study for concept evaluation and dimensioning

Up to now, reduction of fuel consumption of vehicles equipped with CVT transmission has not been exploited to its full potential due to the reduced driveability when driving the optimum efficiency engine operating points. An ISG system with torque boost capabilities can be used to restore this driveability. This paper discusses the goals, the...