FALL/WINTER 2005-06 — Industry Interactions
- Director, Center for Transportation Research (CTR)
- Engine and Emissions Research
- Systems Assessment
- Technology Analysis
- Vehicle Systems
- Advanced Vehicle Technology Competitions
- 21st Century Truck Partnership
Director, Center for Transportation Research (CTR)
- Challenge X Meeting on September 7-8 in Phoenix, Arizona
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) HV Materials Program Review on September 13-15 in Knoxville, Tennessee
- Challenge X Fall Workshop on September 29-October 1 in Detroit, Michigan
- Hart World Fuels Energy Policy: A Global Perspective Conference on October 6-7 in Washington, D.C.
- Sponsor discussions with Ed Wall and Connie Bezanson on October 19-20 at DOE Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
- Powertrain & Fluid Systems Conference on October 24-27 in San Antonio, Texas
- Meeting in October/November with Johnson Controls Battery Group, Cobasys, and Visteon to discuss sponsorship of Challenge X, components and support being provided to Challenge X teams, and potential collaboration on future projects
- Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Commercial Vehicle Engineering Congress on November 1-3 in Rosemont, Illinois
- Meeting with General Motors (GM) on November 16-17 to discuss future projects
- Electric Drive Transportation Association Annual Conference on December 6-8 in Vancouver, Canada
- Meeting with GM, Ford, BP, Corning representatives and the CTR's Steve Ciatti and Forrest Jehlik on December 12 at the GM Tech Center to discuss a proposal for investigating the effects of real-world fuels, including biodiesel, on the performance and emissions of advanced diesel engines meeting Bin 5 emissions levels
- Detroit Auto Show on January 8-11 in Detroit, Michigan
- Challenge X Steering Committee Meeting on January 17-19 in Austin, Texas
- Meetings at the University of Alabama on January 24-25 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
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Engine and Emissions Research
Raj Sekar, Bipin Bihari, Steve Ciatti, and Scott Miers attended the 2005 ICED Fall Technical Conference on September 11-15 in Ottawa, Canada.
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Alan Kastengren and Chris Powell participated in the testing of the new x-ray monochromator that was custom built for Argonne's X-ray fuel spray project on October 4-9. These x-ray optics were funded by DOE's FreedomCAR and Vehicle Technologies Program and will increase the x-ray flux available for their measurements by a factor of 50. This advance will speed the measurement process and enable studies of fuel sprays over a broader range of conditions.
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Alan Kastengren and Chris Powell performed two weeks of round-the-clock experiments on October 19-21 at Argonne's Advanced Photon Source. The results of these experiments will be a Master's dissertation written by Thomas Riedel from Bosch Corporate Research, Stuttgart, Germany. Bosch has sponsored Mr. Riedel to spend four months with Argonne's researchers and is donating injectors, nozzles, and other fuel system components. In addition, Bosch has designed and built a custom pressure vessel for performing these experiments.
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Steve Ciatti and Scott Miers attended the Powertrain & Fluid Systems Conference on October 24-27 in San Antonio, Texas.
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Steve McConnell attended meetings at USCAR on November 1-3 and November 7-10 in Detroit, Michigan.
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Sreenath Gupta attended a project review meeting with the California Energy Commission on November 7-9 in Sacramento, California.
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Raj Sekar attended a program review with Dr. Avtar Bining at the California Energy Commission on November 8-9 in Sacramento, California.
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Raj Sekar accompanied his DOE Program Manager at a technical review at Waukesha Engine Company on November 15 in Waukesha, Wisconsin. On November 16, they attended technical meetings with Caterpillar and Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana. On November 17, they attended a technical review with Cummins Engine Company in Columbus, Indiana.
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Raj Sekar attended the Engine Friction Reduction Workshop at MIT on December 1-2 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Raj Sekar attended a program review with Kevin Stork on December 6-7 and another one with Ron Fiskum on December 12-15 at DOE Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
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Kyeong Lee attended technical meetings with Hyundai on December 19-21 in South Korea.
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Kyeong Lee gave invited speeches about Argonne's diesel particulate matter research program at the Japan Society of Automotive Engineers in Tokyo, Japan and at Toyota Central R&D in Nagoya, Japan. He also participated in technical discussions with Prof. Kamimoto at Tokai University in Tokyo, Japan, beginning on January 21.
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Technology Analysis
Linda Gaines presented an invited talk on idling reduction titled "Innovations in the Transportation Industry: Are We There Yet?" at the National Association of State Energy Officials 2005 Annual Meeting on September 11-13 at Grand Central Station, New York, New York.
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Anant Vyas attended a workshop relating to the Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey on September 28.
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Dan Santini attended the IEA HEV/EV-Implementing Agreement Annex I Meeting on October 5 in Rome, Italy. On October 6-7, he attended meetings with EXCO.
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Linda Gaines presented a poster titled "Diesel Exhaust: Partnering with Stakeholders to Reduce Emissions" at the AWMA Conference held October 6-7 at the Marriott Oakbrook in Oakbrook, Illinois.
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Terry Levinson made a presentation on idling reduction at the American Trucking Association's 2005 Management Conference and Exposition on October 15-18 in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Terry Levinson attended the SAE Commercial Vehicles Engineering Congress on November 1-3 in Rosemont, Illinois. She was co-organizer of a Technology Theater session on National Laboratory Technology and chaired a Technology Theater session on a national plan to reduce idling of all heavy-vehicle modes.
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Linda Gaines gave two presentations on heavy vehicle idling at the SAE Commercial Vehicle Congress on November 1-4 in Rosemont, Illinois. One focused on recent developments, the other, on the technology section of the multi-stakeholder idling reduction plan.
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Terry Levinson attended the National Clean Diesel Campaign Policy Leaders Summit sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Diesel Technology Forum on December 7-8 in Washington , D.C.
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Terry Levinson attended the 21st Century Truck Partnership Meeting at the American Trucking Associations on January 17 in Alexandria, Virginia.
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Dan Santini attended the IEA HEV/EV-Implementing Agreement Annex VII Hybrid Vehicles Meeting on January 19-20 in Vienna, Austria.
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Linda Gaines presented a paper titled "Estimation of Fuel Use by Idling Commercial Trucks" at the 85th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board on January 22-26 in Washington, D.C. Anant Vyas also attended the meeting.
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Dan Santini delivered the presentation, "It's Time to Reassess the Potential of Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles Using Gasoline and Electricity," at the SAE Hybrid Vehicle Technologies 2006 Symposium on February 2 in San Diego, California.
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Systems Assessment
The CTR's Marianne Mintz chaired a session on "Greenhouse Gas Policy Instruments: Cost, Efficiency, and Politics" at ITS-Davis's Asilomar 2005 Conference on August 23-26 in Pacific Grove, California. At the event, more than 200 attendees tackled what many agree is the greatest environmental challenge the world faces: climate change. Their overarching goal was to expand the understanding and address the enormity of the climate change challenges and questions facing policymakers.
The session recognized while most technologies to reduce transportation emissions would initially come from Japan, the United States, and the European Union, most emission growth will likely come from Asia. The session explored how these issues are handled by international policy. It addressed such questions as, "Can it be demonstrated that domestic incentives and policies are likely to be far more effective than international rules and policies, and what might that imply? How might the economics of options be altered by different policy instruments?"
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Michael Wang made an invited well-to-wheels presentation on September 13 in Washington, D.C.
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Michael Wang gave a presentation on biofuel energy and emissions benefits at the EPA's Mobile Source Subcommittee Meeting at the 15th International Symposium on Alcohol Fuels and Other Renewable Fuels on September 26-28 in San Diego, California.
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In his capacity as Operating Agent for Annex I (Information Exchange), Chris Saricks chaired the semi-annual Experts' Meeting and participated in the Executive Council Meeting of the International Energy Agency's Implementing Agreement on Hybrid and Electric Vehicles (IA-HEV) on October 4-7 in Rome, Italy.
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Michael Wang attended the Hart World Fuels Energy Policy: A Global Perspective Conference on October 5-7 in Washington, D.C.
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Michael Wang presented "Well-to-Wheels Results of Advanced Vehicle Systems with New Transportation Fuels" at the Advanced Transportation Workshop, Global Climate and Energy Project, on October 10-11 at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.
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Amgad Elgowainy attended a sponsor meeting on October 12 at DOE Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
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Ye Wu attended the China Workshop on Hg Control from Coal Combustion on October 31-November 2 in Beijing, China.
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Amgad Elgowainy attended a project meeting with DOE sponsors on November 14-15 at DOE Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
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Chris Saricks attended the Electric Drive Transportation Association Annual Conference on December 6-8 in Vancouver, Canada.
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Michael Wang attended the 85th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board on January 22-26 in Washington D.C. At the meeting, Marianne Mintz chaired both a session on oil prices in the new millennium and a Transportation Energy Committee Meeting. In addition, she presented a paper on hydrogen delivery modeling.
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Vehicle Systems
Neeraj Shidore presented a paper at the SAE-FTT Conference on September 7 in Chicago, Illinois.
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Ted Bohn attended the IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference, co-located with the SAE-FTT conference at IIT, on September 7-9 in Chicago, Illinois.
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Mike Duoba and Neeraj Shidore presented papers at the SAE Future Transportation Technology (FTT) Conference on September 7-9 at the IIT Campus in Chicago, Illinois.
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Keith Hardy attended the Frankfurt Motor Show on September 11-15 in Frankfurt, Germany. On September 26-27, he attended a meeting with the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium. On September 27-28, he visited a fuel cell test facility in Petten, Netherlands.
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Dave Livengood attended the International Conference on Air Quality V on September 18-21 in Arlington, Virginia.
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Don Hillebrand attended the SAE Government-Industry Meeting with Ed Wall on October 4 in Washington, D.C.
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Don Hillebrand, Aymeric Rousseau, Max Pasquier, and Mike Duoba attended the FreedomCAR Vehicle System Analysis Tech Team Review on October 5-6 in Detroit, Michigan.
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Keith Hardy gave a presentation about his recent European meetings to Ed Wall and Lee Slezak on October 12 at DOE Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
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Keith Hardy also discussed his recent European travel with Bob Larsen and Don Hillebrand on October 17-20 at Argonne. He made a presentation on the Frankfurt Auto Show to CTR staff on October 18.
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Aymeric Rousseau hosted a visit from Charlie Schleyer and Jeff Farenback-Brateman from ExxonMobil on October 20.
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Keith Hardy attended meetings with sponsors on October 24-26 at DOE Headquarters.
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Dave Shimcoski attended Testing Expo on October 26 in Novi, Michigan. On October 27, he attended a tech tour at AVL in Plymouth, Michigan.
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Mike Duoba hosted a visit from the EPA's Carl Paulina, Maria Peralta, and Jeff Cieslak on November 1-4.
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Dave Livengood participated in an Air & Waste Management Association Conference Planning Meeting on November 2-4 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Don Hillebrand, Aymeric Rousseau, and Phil Sharer attended a meeting with Sujit Das at Oak Ridge National Laboratory on November 15-17 in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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Don Hillebrand attended meetings with Phil Patterson on November 21 at DOE Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
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Don Hillebrand attended an All-Tech Team Meeting with Bill Gouse on November 29-December 2 at USCAR.
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Aymeric Rousseau attended technical meetings on December 1-2 at Lund University in Sweden.
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Henry Ng attended a Hydrogen Safety Review with California Fuel Cell on December 6 in Sacramento, California.
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Aymeric Rousseau, Jason Kwon, and Mike Duoba attended technical meetings with Hyundai on December 19-21 in South Korea.
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Glenn Keller and Aymeric Rousseau gave a presentation on the Powertrain System Analysis Toolkit (PSAT) model to International Truck and Engine on January 24 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. They are investigating collaborative efforts in sharing data to expand PSAT for heavy-duty vehicle applications.
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Advanced Vehicle Technology Competitions
Kristen De La Rosa, Steve Gurski, and Forrest Jehlik attended a Challenge X Meeting on September 7-8 in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Ted Bohn, Kristen De La Rosa, Steve Gurski, and Forrest Jehlik organized and executed the Challenge X Fall Workshop on September 29-October 1 in Pontiac, Michigan. Ted gave a safety presentation related to electrical and hydrogen handling, as well as a control system basics presentation.
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Steve Gurski attended the Challenge H2 Meeting with Connie Bezanson on October 6 at DOE Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
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Kristen De La Rosa attended the Challenge X Meeting on November 1 in Phoenix, Arizona. She and Forrest Jehlik attended the Challenge X Steering Committee Meeting on November 8-10 at Argonne.
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Forrest Jehlik and Steve Gurski attended meetings to finalize on-road Challenge X 2006 competition courses at the GM Desert Proving Grounds on November 14-17.
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Steve Gurski, Forrest Jehlik, and Kristen De La Rosa attended the Challenge X Steering Committee Meeting on January 17-19 in Austin, Texas.
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21st Century Truck Partnership
Glenn Keller attended the following meetings and events:
- Air & Waste Management Conference on Diesel Exhaust on October 6-7 at the Oak Brook Marriott in Oak Brook, Illinois
- Sponsor meetings on October 12 and October 27 at DOE Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
- Hybrid Vehicle Truck Users Forum Annual Meeting on October 19-21 in Toledo, Ohio
- SAE Commercial Vehicle Engineering Congress on November 1-3 in Rosemont, Illinois
- Meeting with DOE sponsors on November 9 at DOE Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
- Meetings with DOE sponsors on November 16 and November 30 in Washington D.C.
- Meetings with Ken Howden to discuss 21st Century Truck Partnership (CTP) issues and development of new databases at DOE Headquarters on December 7 and December 15
- Conference call meeting of the 21st CTP Validation Working Group on January 6
- Meetings to coordinate 21st CTP issues with DOE sponsors on January 11-12 and January 26 in Washington, D.C.
- Meeting of the 21st CTP industry partners on January 17 at American Trucking Association Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
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