Sentences with phrase «fuel the research engine»

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Despite decades of research, hydrogen fuel cells have failed to replace combustion engines in cars, thanks in large part to the cost of their platinum catalysts, says Signe Kjelstrup at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo.

Given this promise — in addition to a February 2012 Department of Energy announcement of a $ 30 million competition aimed at finding ways «to harness our abundant supplies of domestic natural gas for vehicles» — Duoba and his colleague have been ramping up vehicle systems analysis and engine research and testing around CNG as a way to wean ourselves off of foreign fuel sources.

«Optical diagnostic to help improve fuel economy while reducing emissions: New engine optics to fuel future research.»

One area of their research seeks to match engine combustion modes with improved fuel properties to create higher efficiency and lower emission transportation technologies.

With Mira's supercomputing prowess, Argonne's Virtual Engine Research Institute and Fuels Initiative (VERIFI) team simulated over 2,000 engine design combinations and «reduced design time from months to weeks,» said Sibendu Som, group leader and principal computational scientist at ArEngine Research Institute and Fuels Initiative (VERIFI) team simulated over 2,000 engine design combinations and «reduced design time from months to weeks,» said Sibendu Som, group leader and principal computational scientist at Arengine design combinations and «reduced design time from months to weeks,» said Sibendu Som, group leader and principal computational scientist at Argonne.

«The simulations performed by Argonne found two optimized fuel - engine concepts that could improve fuel efficiency substantially,» said Yuanjiang Pei, a lab scientist who specializes in computational fluid dynamics at the Aramco Research Center — Detroit.

Doing some research on this, I discovered the reason it's there is that the fuel returned from the engine is so hot that it would melt straight through the plastic fuel tank if returned uncooled.

This got me researching the CR TDI engine on the internet, and I found lots of complaints of high pressure fuel pump failures and DSG mechtronics unit failures.

«Without the cooled EGR, the engine wouldn't be able to offer the real - world fuel economy we want to make sure customers have,» said research and development engineer Stan Hortinela.

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In addition, Honda will increase its research into alternative powerplants, such as diesel engines and fuel cells.

The Trump administration may be intent on lowering fuel economy standards for 2022 - 2025 model year vehicles, but automakers said last week that it won't slow the pace of their research and development to make internal combustion engines more efficient.

The research vehicle features a homogenous charge compression ignition engine, a technology that produces the high fuel economy of a diesel engine from a clean - burning gasoline engine.

Ford Motor Company is leading a $ 3.5 - million (US$ 3.9 - million) research project to investigate the use of alternative fuels that could offer customers the power and performance of modern internal combustion engines with environmental benefits comparable to an electric vehicle.

Testing by the Coordinating Research Council (CRC), which has been the gold standard in fuels and vehicle research for the better part of a century, determined that millions of vehicles on the road today could suffer engine damage from using fuels containing higher levels of ethanol than for which they were dResearch Council (CRC), which has been the gold standard in fuels and vehicle research for the better part of a century, determined that millions of vehicles on the road today could suffer engine damage from using fuels containing higher levels of ethanol than for which they were dresearch for the better part of a century, determined that millions of vehicles on the road today could suffer engine damage from using fuels containing higher levels of ethanol than for which they were designed.

In January he joined RMIT university as an associate professor to lead a research group as part of a $ 10 million project to support «leading - edge experiments on alternative fuels for advanced and more efficient internal combustion engines» - so says the RMIT press release.

Research has shown higher ethanol blends, such as E15, could damage vehicle engines and fuel pump systems, socking consumers with the repair bills.

Pay attention, because this next one has some serious implications for energy and transportation policy, and infrastructure: According to research just published in the online edition of Science, rather than converting energy crops to liquid fuel for use in an internal combustion engine, it is far more efficient to convert them to electricity to power vehicles.

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