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Improving Upon Best Available Technology: A Clean Flex Fuel Snowmobile
Technical Paper
2008-32-0049
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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The University of Wisconsin-Madison Snowmobile Team has designed and constructed a clean, quiet, high performance snowmobile for entry in the 2008 Society of Automotive Engineers' Clean Snowmobile Challenge. Built on a 2003 cross-country touring chassis, this machine features a 750 cc fuel-injected four-stroke engine equipped with a fuel sensor which allows operation ranging from regular gasoline to an 85% blend of ethanol and gasoline (E85). The engine has been customized with a Mototron control system which allows for full engine optimization using a range of fuels from E00 to E85. Utilizing a heated oxygen sensor and a 3-way catalyst customized for this engine by W.C. Heraeus-GmbH, this sled reduces NOx, HC and CO emissions by up to 89% to an average specific mass of 0.484, 0.154, 4.94 g/kW-hr respectively. Finally, the Mototron system also allowed Wisconsin to extract another 4 kW from the Weber 750cc engine; producing 45 kW and 65 Nm of torque. A two stage muffler system along with sound absorbing material under the hood combines to reduce the sound levels to 71 dbA using SAE test procedure J192. The entire engine and two-stage muffler system is packaged in a manner that maintains the snowmobile's aggressive OEM appearance.
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Rakovec, N., Olenski, B., Maney, M., and Bower, G., "Improving Upon Best Available Technology: A Clean Flex Fuel Snowmobile," SAE Technical Paper 2008-32-0049, 2008, https://doi.org/10.4271/2008-32-0049.Also In
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