Review of the U.S. Department of Energy's Heavy Vehicle Technologies Program (2000)

Chapter: Appendix C: Funding for Research and Development on Combustion and After-treatment Technologies

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Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: Funding for Research and Development on Combustion and After-treatment Technologies." National Research Council. 2000. Review of the U.S. Department of Energy's Heavy Vehicle Technologies Program. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9989.

Appendix C

Funding for Research and Development on Combustion and After-treatment Technologies

The following list of projects is being funded by OHVT for R&D related to combustion and emissions control (Table C-1).

TABLE C-1 Funding for Projects on Combustion and Emission Control (thousands of dollars)

Project

Performer

FY00 OHVT Funding

FY00 Cost Sharing from OAAT

Diesel combustion CRADA: in-cylinder research on an optically accessible Cummins single-cylinder engine

SNL

500

0

Diesel Combustion CRADA: research utilizing a constant-volume combustion vessel

SNL

250

250

Homogeneous charge compression ignition

SNL

150

350

Combustion research at universities

SNL/U. of Illinois, U. of Wisconsin, and Purdue

140

0

Diesel combustion CRADA

U. of Wisconsin/SNL

100

0

Diesel combustion CRADA/CHAD modeling

LANL

250

0

Diesel combustion CRADA/chemical kinetics

LLNL

200

250

NOx after-treatment CRADA

ORNL/DDC

150

0

NOx after-treatment CRADA

ORNL/Cummins

200

0

Technology evaluation

ORNL

100

0

Zero-emission diesel

ORNL

150

0

Precompetitive catalyst R&D

ORNL/Engelhard

100

0

Real-time control

ORNL/DDC

150

0

Technical and cross-cut team support

ORNL

275

0

Nonthermal plasma CRADA

PNNL/Caterpillar

350

0

Nonthermal plasma CRADA

PNNL/Delphi/ DDC

350

0

Nonthermal plasma

LLNL/Cummins

200

0

Emissions CRADA/late-cycle injection of air or oxygen

ANL/Caterpillar

200

0

Total funding for combustion and emission control research at national laboratories

4,215

 

Note: The budget represented in this table constitutes one budget line in the OHVT program budget (see Table 1-5). The distribution of funding does not represent the distribution of funds for the OHVT program as a whole.

Acronyms: ANL = Argonne National Laboratory; CRADA = cooperative research and development agreement; DDC = Detroit Diesel Corporation; LANL = Los Alamos National Laboratory; LLNL = Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; ORNL = Oak Ridge National Laboratory; PNNL = Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; SNL = Sandia National Laboratories

Source: OHVT.

Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: Funding for Research and Development on Combustion and After-treatment Technologies." National Research Council. 2000. Review of the U.S. Department of Energy's Heavy Vehicle Technologies Program. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9989.
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