Combustion Diagnostics more up-to-date than ever!
Despite the current discussions about electrifying the powertrain, in the near and intermediate term the combustion engine will continue to a play a major role as a source of motive power.
Thus, further technical developments will be driven to a great extent by reducing operating costs, particularly the cost of fuel consumption. The legislative bodies encourage this course of action with increasingly more stringent emission limits. In addition to these boundary conditions, which do not depend on engine size, the types of fuels available will increase to a multitude of offerings.
Combustion, as both the central process of energy conversion and as the producer of emissions, will become again the focus of increased experimentation.
In order to answer continuing questions, developers make use of a combination of sophisticated tools from simulation, and from indicating and visual instrumentation. They want to retrieve the most complete description of new combustion systems or of the influences of altered boundary conditions on the combustion process (i.e. control times, fuel types). These considerations are not limited to the combustion chamber, but also require verification along the entire gas exchange, fuel mixture generation and exhaust after-treatment path. Aside from the purely technical considerations, the developer asks himself repeatedly the same question: “Where am I within the development process and what tools are (still) at my disposal?”
The 9th International Symposium on Combustion Diagnostics takes on these expanded broad challenges with presentations and discussions that will consider these further refined technical and constantly changing economic boundary conditions. The topic of combustion diagnostics is more up-to-date than ever and the exchange of expertise with colleagues in an environment deliberately different from the office is essential for developing the new ideas of the individual.
We look forward to your participation.
Dr. R. Teichmann
On behalf of the Program Advisory Committee
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