FALL/WINTER 2005-06 — CTR Staff in the News
CTR Director Bob Larsen gave an interview on WBEZ Chicago public radio about the laboratory's advanced car program and university student contests. Since 1987, the CTR has managed more than two dozen forward-thinking car competitions for North American students. The U.S. Department of Energy has sponsored these competitions with one of the "Big Three" car companies. The competitions allow students to use their creativity to show what can be accomplished outside of a major corporation. In the most current competition, Challenge X: Crossover to Sustainable Mobility, 17 student teams have been challenged to re-engineer a GM Equinox, a crossover sport utility vehicle, to minimize energy consumption, emissions, and greenhouse gases while maintaining or exceeding the vehicle's utility and performance.
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On January 17, WGN-AM Program Host Milt Rosenberg discussed the Laboratory and its research on "Extension 720" with Argonne Director Robert Rosner; Tom Rosenbaum, John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor of Physics and Argonne Vice President for Research; Rick Stevens, Acting Associate Laboratory Director for Physical, Biological, and Computing Sciences; and Don Hillebrand, the CTR's Vehicle Systems Section Leader.
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CTR engineer Michael Duoba was quoted in an October Consumers Report (CR) article titled "How They Test, How We Test," regarding government fuel economy tests/ratings and their correlation to real-world mpg in today's driving world (see www.ConsumerReports.org ). In the article, CR compared the EPA fuel economy with the mileage per gallon that CR measured for 303 cars and trucks for model years 2000-2006 across a wide swath of makes and models.
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The CTR's Kyeong Lee received the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Excellence in Oral Presentation Award for "Effects of Exhaust System Components on Diesel Particulate Morphology for a Light-Duty Diesel Engine." His presentation, delivered at the 2005 SAE World Congress, addressed the detailed morphological properties of diesel particulate matter analyzed along the exhaust system at various engine operating conditions. Lee discussed his work using Argonne's unique thermophoretic sampling system, which incorporates a high-resolution transmission electron microscope (TEM) and customized image processing/data capability for collecting particulate matter, subsequent imaging of particle morphology, and detailed analysis of particle dimensions and fractal geometry, respectively. The supporting paper, co-authored with Jinyu Zhu, formerly of Argonne, is SAE document number 2005-01-0184.
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