Clean Diesel Technology Breakthrough From Ricardo!
I’ve been hooked with clean engine breakthroughs and a lot of stuff about alternative fuel and eco-friendly technologies etc. I always make sure that I have the latest updates about this everyday or at least thrice a day will do. Fortunately, good news has been showering lately about ground breaking technologies that are being introduced in the industry! One of the freshest technologies that were brought up this week is the clean diesel engine technology by Ricardo.
According to my source, TheAutoChannel.com, Ricardo has announced that it has attained a very important highlight in its advanced diesel research! It was after the successful achievement of Tier II Bin 5 emissions from an automotive diesel engine without the use of NOx after treatment. This research sustained the intention of showcasing clean diesel technology that is able to achieve U.S. Super Ultra-Low Emission (SULEV) and Tier II Bin 2 requirements. Ricardo has placed the advanced diesel next to gasoline hybrid and fuel cell powered vehicles as future high fuel-economy through the milestone that they achieved - environmentally friendly automotive products that is!
"The achievement of Tier II Bin 5 engine-out emissions without NOx aftertreatment is a major breakthrough and puts us squarely on the path to achieving our ultimate objective of Tier II Bin 2, the world's cleanest emissions standard. By applying a systems engineering approach which combines engine-out optimization with advanced aftertreatment, we have demonstrated that the diesel can provide a clean, fun to drive, cost-effective, fuel-efficient and environmentally friendly solution for the vehicles of tomorrow. While there clearly remain many challenges in translating this research into high volume production solutions, this achievement provides significant new confidence in the future viability of the clean diesel in North America," says Dean Harlow, the president of Ricardo, Inc.
The development began in late 2005 wherein the early stages of the research project has been concentrating in the development of technologies to bring on the engine-out exhaust emissions without NOx after treatment that gets the severe Tier II Bin 5 US emission requirements, in which delivered NOx levels roughly one-sixth those of Euro 5.
"The advanced diesel technologies developed and demonstrated through this research project are extremely attractive in the European as well as the North American market. While the future emissions regulations are different for both regions, the technology we have demonstrated as being capable of achieving Tier II Bin 2 US emissions standards is also highly applicable to the challenge of providing cost-optimized CO2 reduction solutions for EU6 and beyond in Europe," says Ian Penny, Ricardo's global diesel product group director regarding the international applicability of the developed technology.
