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Current exhaust gas emission regulations can only be well adhered to through optimal interplay of combustion engine and exhaust gas after-treatment systems. Combining a modern diesel engine with several exhaust gas after-treatment components (DPF, catalytic converters) leads to extremely complex drive systems, with very complex and technically demanding control systems. Current engine ECUs (Electronic Control Unit) have hundreds of functions with thousands of parameters that can be adapted to keep the exhaust gas emissions within the given limits. Each of these functions has to be calibrated and tested in accordance with the rest of the ECU software. To date this task has been performed mostly on engine test benches or in Hardware-in-the-Loop (HiL) setups. In this paper, a Software-in-the-Loop (SiL) approach, consisting of an engine model and an exhaust gas treatment (EGT) model, coupled with software from a real diesel engine ECU, will be described in detail.

Vehicles powered by Diesel engines with direct injection contribute to a significant reduction of fuel consumption and CO2 emission. The particulate and gaseous emissions of Diesel engine are of major concern. In order to comply with future legal limits, further developments for the reduction of exhaust gas emissions are required. This work explores the effect of fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) as bio fuel on the emission characteristics of a Diesel engine. The experiments were performed with various fuel combinations such as FAME, FAME/Diesel blends, and water/FAME/Diesel emulsions, which were directly injected into the combustion chamber of a Diesel engine. Due to the complexity of the Diesel engine, several operating parameters were varied to study their influence on the pollutant emissions. The experiments have proved that FAME combustion leads to a significantly reduction of the CO, HC and particle matter compared to Diesel combustion.

The improvement of the exhaust gas contents of diesel engines with respect to particles and gaseous emissions is still a very important engineering topic. In this work two different direct injection methods into the combustion chamber of a diesel engine have been investigated and compared. The first system involves the separate injection of H2O2/water solutions using a second nozzle, while the other is the injection of H2O2/water/diesel emulsions by a single injection system. It is known that H2O2 forms OH radicals at higher temperatures, whose probability for the oxidation of diesel soot is much higher than that of molecular oxygen [1]. The H2O2 injection into the combustion chamber [2] and the exhaust pipe of diesel engines [3] has proved to be an effective measure towards the reduction of diesel soot. A Differential Mobility Analyzer (DMA) is applied to detect the change in particle diameter as function of H2O2/water addition.