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
Appendix C
Funding for Research and Development on Combustion and After-treatmentTechnologies
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. | |||
