Driving and Engine Cycles
This book presents in detail the most important driving and engine cycles used for the certification and testing of new vehicles and engines around the world. It covers chassis and engine-dynamometer cycles for passenger cars, light-duty vans, heavy-duty
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Driving and Engine Cycles
Driving and Engine Cycles
Evangelos G. Giakoumis
Driving and Engine Cycles
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Evangelos G. Giakoumis Department of Thermal Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering National Technical University of Athens Athens Greece
ISBN 978-3-319-49033-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-49034-2
ISBN 978-3-319-49034-2
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Preface
Environmental pollution has been one of the most significant threats faced by mankind in the last decades. It affects severely the whole planet, resulting in millions of premature deaths every year, degradation of the human life level, and considerable financial burden on individuals and the whole society. Passenger cars, light- and heavy-duty trucks and buses, and non-road equipment, i.e., vehicles powered by fossil-fueled internal combustion engines, are among the major contributors to the anthropogenic-related environmental issues, particularly in large cities. The authorities, having acknowledged this fact from the early 50s, proceeded to various measures, such as legislation of gradually stricter emission limits, cleaner fuels, inspection and maintenance tests. Many books have been published in the last decades dealing with vehicular-related environmental issues. A lot of these books have focused on emission limits and emission legislation in general. Others deal with pollutant emissions analyzing their production mechanisms; additionally, a significant portion has been concerned with after-treatment control. None of these subjects are dealt with in this book. In contrast, it seems that there has been no book dealing exclusively with certification cycles, i.e., the test sched
