Sustainable surface transport

- Vehicle packaging- Development of engine measures for ensuring active catalyst temperature window ┻ increase in fuel consumption

- Re-dimensioning of the EAT-system ┻ loss in catalytic efficiency
Risks are an inherent element of quality RTD projects. However unmanaged risks may have a detrimental impact on the project schedule and results, and eventually give rise to contractual litigation. The management process shall identify and monitor risks that could have an impact on the

project schedule and results and shall make appropriate measures to suppress or mitigate their effects.

While some risks (too ambitious objectives, technological bottlenecks, poor integration of competencies｡K) can be identified during the elaboration of the project and adapted strategies devised within the workplan, others, either internal (major equipment failure, non performing or defaulting partner｡K) or external to the project (technical developments outside the project, market evolution｡K) may appear during project implementation and will require timely management decisions.
Risk monitoring during project implementation will one of the Project leader痴 responsibilities. A risk management method comprising risks identification, evaluation and ranking, mitigation and residual risks follow-up, will by applied by all SP leaders, and co-ordinated by the Project Leader.

2. Implementation

2.1 Management structure and procedures

2.1.1 Motivation

The scientific and technological activities of the Integrating Project (IP) are intended to strive towards an overall common goal, and they all are defined as necessary contributors towards this goal. The size of the IP does not allow to have only one organisational level which should be in control of every detail of the IP. On the other hand, a heavy and hierarchical organisation can often be too costly and too stiff for research and development processes. These aspects lead to an organisation which is flat (only a few layers) and with distributed responsibilities, both vertically and horizontally.

2.1.2 Brief Description of the Organisation

As indicated in the figure, the IP is divided into a set of Sub-Projects which complement each other and support the progress towards the objectives of the IP. Each Sub-Project comply with the objectives and schedule of the IP and delivers results in accordance to what has been agreed and within the allocated resources. The research and development activities will be carried out in and the Workpackages of these Sub-Projects. Each Workpackage has well defined domain, partnership and resource allocation.

The monitoring, control and steering of the IP is executed by the General Assembly, the Steering Committee and the Sub-Projects Committees.

General Principles for these there Committees:

The chairperson shall convene all meetings and shall give each of the members at least fourteen days notice of such meetings.

Such invitation should set an agenda including the items to be discussed and the decisions proposed to make.

The members shall be represented by their representatives to attend and vote at any meeting.

The chairperson shall convene meetings according to the schedule or on the request of a third of the members.

If a consensus cannot be reached, the matter shall be resolved by a vote of the members. Each member shall have one vote. The adoption of a decision shall require the favourable vote of two thirds of the members.

If there is any contradictions, the decision of the General Assembly shall prevail over the decisions taken by the Steering Committee and the Sub-Project Committees.

Below follows a more detailed specification of the organisational structure.

General Assembly

Tasks:

Reviews and monitors the progress and the activities of the IP.

Identifies appropriate actions for the successful performance of the IP reviewing the plans for the remaining phases.

Is in charge of making decisions or proposals for decisions to be taken by the Steering Committee.

Members:

One representative per each partner of the IP.

Level of representative is senior research manager.

Chairperson:

The Coordinator of the IP chairs the meetings of the General Assembly.

Operation:

The General Assembly meets once per year and additionally when required.

Steering Committee

Tasks:

Supervises the progress of the IP from its start-up phase to its completion, guaranteeing its continuity and consistency and allocating the resources adequately.

Takes decisions of major and strategic relevance regarding the IP and does not interfere with internal Sub-Project issues unless these disturb the IP or its other Sub-Projects.

Handles any conflict resolution within the IP which could not be handled at a lower level.

When necessary, e.g. due to a technological breakthrough, adjusts the content and direction of research in the IP.

Members:

All Sub-Project Leaders and, optionally if particular reasons exist, other major partners and additional key persons, e.g. strategic scientific experts.

Level of representative is senior research manager.

Chairperson:

The Coordinator of the IP chairs the meetings of the Steering Committee.

Operation:

The Steering Committee meets at least once every six months per year and additionally when required.

The Sub-Project Leader report status of Sub-Projects.

Coordinator

The Coordinator is CENTRO RICERCHE FIAT SCpA.

Tasks

Fulfils the obligations of the Coordinator under the Grant Agreement with the European Commission.

Interacts with the European Community and third parties about the IP, including the submission of deliverables to the European Community.

Represents the IP towards the European Community and other third parties, but shall not be entitled to act or to make legally binding declarations on behalf of any other partners.

Receives, compiles and distributes to the partners, documents, reports, statements of expenditure, minutes of meetings of the General Assembly and the Steering Committee.

May designate an IP Manager to assist the Coordinator in its managing tasks.

Sub-Projects Committees

Tasks:

Supervise and provide day to day management of the activities of the respective partners consistently with the decisions taken by the General Assembly and the Steering Committee.

Perform active planning and progress monitoring of the Workpackages in conjunction with the Sub-project leader.

Execute their own control over internal issues; if issues concern other Sub-Projects and can not be solved directly, the issues should be handled by the Steering Committee.

Ensure the information exchange about the Workpackages with the other partners participating in the Sub-Project.

Provide knowledge developed in the Sub-Project and pre-existing know how required for the performance of the IP and for exploiting the result.

Members:

All Workpackages Leaders and at least one representative per each partner of the Sub-Project. Optionally key experts.

Chairperson:

The Sub-Project Leader chairs the meetings of the Sub-Projects Committee. Each Sub-Projects Committee, if nor yet defined, may elect one of its partner as a Sub-Project Leader. The Sub-Project Leader additionally:

Attends the Steering Committee reporting the status of Sub-Project.

Collects and submits the reports, deliverables and required information of Sub-Project to the Coordinator.

Operation:

The Sub-Projects Committees meet accordingly to the defined workplan.

The research and development activities are carried out in and the Workpackages of each Sub-Project. Each Workpackage has well defined domain, partnership and resource allocation.

WP leader:

The partners of each Workpackage elect among themselves a Workpackage Leader.

The Workpackage Leader monitors the work and the progress of the Workpackage and make sure that resource allocation is not violated and that deliverables are done in time and to the quality specified.

2.2 Individual participants

NumberShort NameLegal NameCountry1CRFCentro Ricerche Fiat SCpAIT

Centro Ricerche FIAT S.C.p.A. (CRF) was established in 1976 to enable the innovation, research and development needs of the FIAT Group to be satisfied. The main site of CRF is located near Torino (Orbassano). With a full-time workforce of more than 850 highly-trained professionals, CRF offers a wide range of technical competencies and is equipped with state-of-the-art laboratories for the testing of powertrains, electro-magnetic compatibility, experimental noise and vibration analysis, driving simulation and virtual reality, in addition to facilities for the development of new materials and manufacturing processes, opto-electronics and micro-technologies.

CRF uses innovation as strategic lever and attributes value to its results by promoting, developing and transferring innovation in order to enhance product competitiveness and distinctiveness. Furthermore the development of effective, creative and competitive solutions is matched by direct technology transfer which also includes 登n the jobtraining of specialised personnel in the different areas. In this way, CRF provides vital technological support for growth to Fiat Group, its partners and different regions by conducting research and development activities, frequently related to improving the efficiency and safety of mobility and transportation by focusing on the development of vehicles with new architectures and powertrains, innovative materials and advanced solutions for telematics and communications, mechatronics and optics. Moreover, through many years of pre-competitive research within European and international research projects, a collaboration network with more than 750 industrial partners and 150 Universities all around the world has been established.
In the proposal, three main tasks have been attributed to CRF:
1. Coordination of the collaborative project InGas on the basis of the past experience developed in a number of EC funded research projects. By considering only the research projects dealing with engines running on natural gas, CRF was the coordinator of METHACAR, LEVINGS, the cluster EMING & IGIS and sub-project A1 of GREEN dealing with a NG HD engine development. Such a research / development activity brought the Fiat Group to be the worldwide leader in the production of both light-duty and heavy-duty natural gas vehicles.
Dr. Massimo Ferrera has been appointed as coordinator of InGas. He works in Centro Ricerche Fiat (engine department) since 1987. At the beginning he was involved as technician in several research program (spark ignition and combustion systems, after treatment systems for gasoline engines, assessment of conventional and alternative fuels versus environmental impact as regulated and unregulated exhaust emissions).

As breakthrough of this last activity in 1994 and up to 2004, before as assistant program director and then as responsible of Natural Gas engines application department, has collaborated with Fiat Auto and IVECO group to put in production all the Fiat Group Natural Gas vehicles (mono e bifuel versions ｨC from Fiat Marea Bipower to Fiat Panda Natural Power). From 1997 up to 2001 he was coordinator of n.2 UE (BE III) projects (IGIS & EMING acronyms) regarding Natural Gas engines.

In 2005 he became responsible of spark ignited engine application in Research & Technology department and now in the same department is director of Alternative fuel engines and responsible of Gasoline Multiair engine testing. The coordination activity of Dr. Ferrera will be supported, as program manager, by Dr. Ing. Stefania Zandiri. She works in Centro Ricerche FIAT since 1993. She is a chemical engineer and in the last four years she has been Project Manager of many EU projects related to hydrogen PEM fuel cell vehicles (FUERO, Fueva,HyTRAN, Autobrane, Roads2HyCom) and other relevant national projects. In 2007 she has been involved in the organisation of the Automotive and Other Transportation Committee for the JTI (European Industry Grouping for a fuel cell and hydrogen joint technology initiative).

2. Coordination of the sub-project A1 鼎NG technologies for passenger carswhere the development of the variable valve actuation technology and the extension to methane ｨC hydrogen mixture represents a further step in development of the stoichiometric combustion approach supported by the sequential gas multipoint gas injection examined in the previous CNG projects. Person in charge for CRF in the coordination of the sub-project A1 is Dr. Andrea Gerini, graduated at Politecnico di Milano in 1990 as Mechanical Engineer, is involved in CRF since 1997 in engine gas development; he is now in charge of the Alternative Fuels Engine Development & Application department, including activities on natural gas, hydrogen and biofuels for S.I. engines. Dr.Gerini will be supported in technical coordination by Ing. Paolo Novella, graduated at Politecnico di Genova in 1999 as Mechanical Engineer, is working in CRF since 2000 on the development of CNG turbocharged HD and LD engines.

3. Coordination of the sub-project B1 敵as storage for passenger cars CNG enginesaiming to the development of an highly integrated storage module intrinsically safer than conventional solutions which respects necessary constraints, e.g. weight, volume, costs, assembly/disassembly, maintenance and safety requirements.
Since more than ten years CRF is deeply involved in natural gas engine development and applications. From the industrial point of view, CRF was in charge of the development of a new generation of gaseous injection system, electronically controlled, that is now in use on all the range of bi-fuel FIAT passenger cars and also on the IVECO heavy duty applications (urban bus and trucks). During this period, these activities have been supported by several research projects, also funded by the EU commission, where CRF have been developed specific skills concerning both the gas injection system and the engine control management.
Within SPA1 will be responsible for the following activities

WP1 - CRF is in charge of the definition of the key elements of the dedicated engine, both developing internally the components/strategies related to the air flow control at the intake and also by collecting the information coming from the simulations carried out by IFP. In this task CRF will also build up the prototype engine for its experimental activities.

WP2 - Within this task, all the development and calibration activities at the test bench are scheduled; CRF will be in charge of the development of the base and of the dedicated SW strategies for the Engine Management System; in the second phase, the assessment of the engine at the CRF's test bench will be done, including the study on the influence of the natural gas composition.

WP3 - No direct involvement in this WP.

WP4 - In the final phase of the WP CRF will collect the fallout of the activities carried out by ECOCAT and IFP and concerning the definition of the aftert-reatment device; CRF will test both at the engine test bench and on vehicle the solutions selected by the partners.

WP5 - CRF will be in charge of the definition of innovative and cost effective solutions for the integration of the storage system on board: a complete study will be proposed for the validator vehicle.

WP6 - The final phase concerning the global assessment of the validator vehicle in terms of performance/emissions/driveability and fuel economy will be carried out in CRF.

Within SPA2 will be responsible for the following activities:

WP1 - Definition of CNG Storage System Requirements regarding CNG storage mass, density and costs and design expectation, etc.
WP3 - Development of an appropriate integrated control strategy for shut-off valves, pressure regulator, injectors, fuelling process and safety functions, in cooperation with sub-projects A1, A2 and A3.
WP4 - Virtual design of highly integrated storage module is developed, investigating different vehicle packaging based on concepts. Development of an innovative concept in which the entire rear section of the vehicle platform is re-designed in order to act as a storage module itself.

WP5 - Development and assessment of a first virtual design concept of an optimized CNG vehicle.

NumberShort NameLegal NameCountry2AVLAVL List GmbHAT

AVL LIST GmbH. (AVL) is the world痴 largest privately owned and independent company for the development of powertrain systems with internal combustion engines as well as instrumentation and test systems with about 1400 employees in Graz (over 500 graduated engineers) and a global network of 45 representations and affiliates resulting in total 3440 employees worldwide.

AVLｴs Powertrain Engineering division activities are focused on the research, design and development of various powertrains in the view of low fuel consumption, low emission, low noise and improved driveability.

The Advanced Simulation Technologies division develops and markets the simulation methods which are necessary for the powertrain development work.

The Instrumentation and Test Systems division is an established manufacturer and provider of instruments and systems for engine and vehicle testing including combustion diagnostic sensors, optical systems as well as complete engine and powertrain test beds.

AVL has been successfully participating and co-ordinating RTD projects in the European Framework Programmes. Collaborative research projects are very effective to enhance the state-of-the-art and increase the competitiveness of the company.

In addition the big effort on R&D carried out at AVL (in total 10% of turnover) can only be realised with substantial support of funding programmes.
Within AVL-Group there is long term experience with conversion of gasoline engines to CNG engines for customers - also with turbo charged engines. Advanced combustion development for low emission applications represents a core competence of AVL. Within the IP NICE and IP GREEN project (6th EC Framework Programme) a DI CNG combustion system was developed and investigated together with partners. In the IP GREEN AVL did comprehensive numerical simulations for CNG direct injection. Transparent engine investigations and combustion visualization are standard research methodologies at AVL with many reference projects for different OEMs.
In the proposal AVL will be responsible for the co-ordination of SPA2 and for the following technical activities:

WP A2.1: Definition of combustion system; Specification of injection system boundaries and engine layout

WP A2.2: Analysis of injection system at engine operation

WP A2.4: Multi cylinder engine tests on test bench; Transparent engine investigations and combustion simulation

WP A2.5: Transient engine testing on test bed; Development of combustion controller based on cylinder pressure; Basis calibration

WP B2.4: Multi cylinder engine tests on test bed with advanced exhaust system; CH4 catalyst evaluation

WPB2.5: Integration of the exhaust aftertreatment system on the engine test bench and development of a control strategy under transient conditions.

Within the Project the following key-persons will be involved:

Alois Frhapter: Lead engineer; 9 years of experience in combustion development of gasoline, gasoline DI and gas engines.
Theodor Sams: PhD in mechanical engineering; Senior engineer: 10 years at AVL; out-standing experience in combustion development (Diesel, gasoline, alternative fuels)

Eduard Unger: PhD in electrical engineering; Senior engineer; 12 years of experience in algorithm design for engine management systems

Heribert Fuchs: PhD in chemistry; Senior engineer; 18 years of experience in mixture and combustion visualization and transparent engine investigations

Reinhard Tatschl: PhD in mechanical engineering; skill team leader; 16 years experience in numerical simulation of mixture preparation and combustion in combustion engines

Alexander Holleis: AVL since 2002; coordination of national and international RTD projects, e.g. FP6 IP "SILENCE" CA "ERTRAC" and "ERTRAC II", FP5 TN "FURORE", etc.
NumberShort NameLegal NameCountry3FEVFEV Motorentechnik GmbHDE

FEV is an independent internationally recognised leader in the design and development of powertrains, power units and burners as well as a manufacturer of prototypes and instrumentation systems. FEV is certified at DIN ISO 9001 in research and development, manufacturing, sale and service - TﾜV cert (Certificate registration Nｰ 01 100 0000 10).

FEV was founded in 1978 and has now approximately 1300 employees at different facilities worldwide. A large number of them are upgrade engineers (doctor and Diploma engineers).

As a supplier FEV conducts the powertrain and power unit development projects from the initial concept phase through production release under direct implementation of the latest scientific discoveries. FEV has extensive experience in designing and developing new power systems as well as in the modification of existing designs. Our capabilities and experiences extend to power system packaging and powertrain systems integration, including the control of integrated powertrain functions, certification, calibration and homologation. FEV develops and uses mathematical models for the analysis of mechanical stress and noise and acoustic, combustion and flow processes, thermal and medium flow management and for catalysis processes.

In more than 50 engine test benches, in climate chambers and on the test track powertrains and vehicles were improved and tested.

The combustion process of gasoline, diesel and gas engines is the backbone of future combustion engines. FEV researches on advanced combustion processes using advanced models and testing equipment to reduce emissions and fuel consumption under market relevant boundary conditions.

The future combustion process and engine design will be transferred into production in corporation with FEV痴 clients.

With their close contacts with international research institutes - especially with institutes of the Aachen University of Technology - basic knowledge is transferred into industrial products.

FEV's worldwide customers are the automobile and truck industry, power unit manufacturers, i.e. for auxiliary power units, power plants, industrial and off road applications and their supply industries as well as home heating system manufacturer.
In the proposal FEV will be responsible for the co-ordination of SPA3 and for the following technical activities:

WP A3.1: WP leader; basic specifications of the combustion system; development of engine control strategy

WP A3.2: Modelling, design, procurement and rig test of the boosting device and internal combustion engine

WP A3.3: WP leader; Testing and improvement of the boosting system; multicylinder testing; design of powertrain control strategy; testing of NG / H2 mixtures

WP A3.4: vehicle calibration and testing;

The described work belongs to FEV痴 activities in combustion process development in the area alternative fuels. In successful previous EU funded projects FEV has shown its experience in the field of design of combustion process and engine control strategies. Furthermore the feedback of current projects in other technology fields, diesel or gasoline engine development and development of boosting devices and control strategies for example will have a positive influence in the proposed work too. Notwithstanding this Ethanol combustion processes with glowing ignition is a new approach in the area of alternative fuels.

The work of FEV will be coordinated by Dr. Matthias Lamping. He is department manager for Diesel combustion development of passenger car and light duty engines at FEV Motorentechnik. During his career he researched in the field of combustion process and after treatment of Diesel engines as well as of alternative fuels in Diesel combustion processes. Beside him a highly skilled group of specialists will be responsible for the single tasks of the project.