September 2016 – Car Engineer

Eaton CO2 reduction technologies for Heavy-Duty diesels

Eco-conception, News_Technologie, Technology

Eaton demonstrated a range of waste heat recovery (WHR) technologies for heavy-duty diesel engines at the IAA Commercial Vehicles show in Hanover, Germany, as well as variable valve timing systems, highlighting their potential to reduce fuel consumption and help reduce emissions. Both indirect and direct WHR systems were on display. The organic Rankine cycle (ORC) design recovers waste heat […]

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Using STAR-CCM+ to understand detailed chemistry in combustion process

Education and Jobs, Featured articles, Jobs, Modeling and simulation, News_Education

Emission performance and drive cycle measurements for diesel combustion engine passenger cars have created a lot of “smoke” in the media lately. The discussions highlight the importance of emission reduction and performance, and also reveal the great challenge of this work. If some of the largest car manufacturers in the world struggle to meet the

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Torotrak Group demonstrates Flybrid and V-Charge solutions

Eco-conception, News_Technologie, Technology

Torotrak Group will be exhibiting its technology at the UK’s premier low carbon vehicle event, Cenex-LCV2016, held at Millbrook on 14th & 15th September. LCV attendees will be transported to the entrance by a Wrightbus StreetLite bus equipped with the Flybrid Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS). Torotrak Group will also exhibit a Ford Focus 1.0L

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Schaeffler torque converter technology for automatic transmissions

Automatic transmissions, News transmission, News_Technologie, Technology, Transmissions

The popularity of automatic transmissions is on the rise, a trend boosted by the increasing demand for technologies that reduce fuel consumption and emissions, since user-friendly automatic transmissions are now setting the standard in terms of efficiency thanks to new torque converter systems. The iTC torque converter from Schaeffler represents an entirely new generation of

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