Robust Emission Compliance and Reduction of System Cost by advanced emission-based Diesel engine air management

The continuously strengthened requirements regarding air quality and pollutant reduction as well as GHG emissions further complicate the compliance with legal standards. Especially in view of cost-sensitive applications this demand strongly collides with the EMS set-up and the sensor requirements with still increasing overall system complexity.

The paper in hand describes a novel air path control approach, which offers the potential for a flexible use of multiple EGR routes to meet upcoming legislations more robustly, while providing a significant reduction of calibration effort and sensor content at the same time. By using a direct emission based cylinder charge control, also alterations in operational ambient conditions are covered with system reactions according to physical-based rules to enhance the engine-out emission performance without need for tuning of corrections of any air path set point. This enables a system to fulfil EU-4 and EU-5 emission requirements in very cost attractive way, but also to meet EU6.2 and RDE legislation requirements with slightly increased sensor set-up, while using the same software strategies. In addition to the functional correlations and principle layout of the novel algorithms, the paper delivers also validated experimental results for a clear proof-of-concept and identifies the merits in engineering and calibration effort.