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Category: Multi-Slide Guides
The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Co-Optimization of Vehicles and Routes (CoVaR)
To Improve Commercial Transportation System Efficiency This completed project, CoVaR, co-optimized vehicle and route efficiency for commercial fleets. Key advances included improving RouteE energy models into fast lookup tables and integrating Single Vehicle Multi-Stop (SVMS) functionality into the Fleet Management System (FMS) and Intelligent Driver Assistance System (IDAS). This powertrain-agnostic technology was validated to achieve […]
The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Improving Network-Wide Fuel Economy and Enabling Traffic Signal Optimization Using Infrastructure and Vehicle-Based Sensing and Connectivity
This project advances traffic management by developing novel sensor fusion techniques, combining radar and camera data to track vehicles through corridors. Optimization methods, constrained by NEMA logic, utilize factors like Truck Speed Priority (TSP). Simulation demonstrates significant fuel consumption reductions, achieving 14.8% improvement over coordinated fixed-time signals. The ultimate goal is to validate a ≥20% […]
The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to OPTIMIZING DRONE DEPLOYMENT FOR MORE EFFECTIVE MOVEMENT OF GOODS
This project optimizes drone deployment for microfreight using an improved optimization model (OMDD) that provides near-optimal fleet solutions in seconds (e.g., 0.01 seconds), greatly enhancing practicality. The public tools, including an Energy Calculator, support industry deployment and awareness. Analysis of mixed fleets (drones and ground vehicles) reveals that optimizing ground vehicle circuits significantly reduces energy […]
The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Simulation of Jet Engine Performance using SAF Blends
This research uses exascale computing (PeleLMeX solver) to perform high-fidelity simulations of combustor performance using Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) blends up to 100%. A validated, reduced two-component surrogate chemical kinetic model for HEFA-SPK (74 species) was developed. This simulation capability accelerates and de-risks the expensive, risky certification of newer SAFs beyond the current 50% blend […]
The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Fuel effects on aviation engine emissions – a modeling tool for SAF screening
This project delivers a low-computational-cost 0-D/1-D reactor network tool to rapidly screen Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF). The tool, validated against CFM56 engine data, incorporates reduced chemical kinetic mechanisms for fuel effects on emissions (NOx, CO, PM, PN). This technology enables fuel producers and OEMs to accelerate aviation decarbonization by de-risking new SAF candidates. The model […]
The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to A low GHG advanced SI engine that can operate on NG and NG/H2 blends with diesel-equivalent performance for off-road applications
This project develops an advanced Spark Ignition engine operating on Natural Gas (NG) and NG/Hydrogen blends, targeting 45% BTE (diesel-equivalent). Technical advances include coupled 1D/CFD simulations and a novel in-situ CO2/H2O exhaust gas sensor for fast EGR feedback and H2 ratio estimation. The goal is Stoichiometric operation with near-zero CH4 slip. This results in up […]
The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Plasma-Assisted Pre-Chamber Ignition System for Highly Dilute Stoichiometric Heavy-Duty Natural Gas Engines
This research develops a next-generation plasma-assisted pre-chamber ignition system for highly dilute stoichiometric heavy-duty natural gas engines. Key technology includes nano-second pulsed plasma igniters and CFD modeling to optimize prechamber geometry and increase dilution tolerance. The innovation aims to achieve ≥48% Brake Thermal Efficiency, improving efficiency by ≥7% compared to baseline natural gas engines. This […]
The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Medium Duty Off-Road DME Engine Achieving High Efficiency and Ultra Low Emissions
This project develops durable fuel injection systems (FIS) and Ducted Fuel Injection (DFI) for rDME Mixing Controlled Compression Ignition (MCCI) combustion in off-road engines. A core technology advance is utilizing dual FIS development pathways to mitigate risk for a planned 200-hour durability demonstration. The technology leverages rDME’s low carbon intensity (as low as -279 gCO2e/MJ), […]
The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to High-Efficiency Mixing Controlled Compression Ignition Combustion of Propane Dimethyl Ether (DME) Blends
This project develops Mixing Controlled Compression Ignition (MCCI) for propane/DME blends. Technology advances include a high-pressure fuel system capable of over 1100 bar injection and CFD optimization utilizing exhaust rebreathing to stabilize combustion. The impact is achieving diesel-equivalent efficiency (≥37.1%) and enabling a potential 15% reduction in CO2 emissions compared to conventional propane engines, leveraging […]
