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Assessment of retrofit devices for the Horizon 2020 Cleanest Engine and Vehicle Retrofit Prizes
| 1 | Sustainable Transport Unit, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, via E. Fermi 2749, 21027 Ispra, Italy, Italy |
| 2 | C2, European Commission, DG Research & Innovation, B-1049 Brussels, Belgium, Belgium |
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Barouch Giechaskiel
Sustainable Transport Unit, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, via E. Fermi 2749, 21027 Ispra, Italy, Italy
Sustainable Transport Unit, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, via E. Fermi 2749, 21027 Ispra, Italy, Italy
Submission date: 2022-01-21
Final revision date: 2022-03-04
Acceptance date: 2022-03-05
Online publication date: 2022-03-13
Publication date: 2022-07-06
Combustion Engines 2022,190(3), 27–34
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The Horizon 2020 prizes aimed at the development of retrofit and engines that would reduce pollution. The Retrofit prize had a winner, while the Engine prize not. In this paper we present the innovations that were tested at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, and not awarded. One was a “condensation” aftertreatment device, two were devices inserted in the fuel supply system, and one a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) for NOx system. The testing of the “condensation” aftertreatment device showed that it could not withstand the high exhaust gas temperatures. The results of the two fuel systems showed that they could not control efficiently the NOx emissions. The reductions of the pollutants were negligible for the levels that the prizes were aiming. The SCR system did not achieve any significant reduction of NOx, probably due to a malfunction of the device.
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