Torregrosa Huguet, Antonio José; Serrano Cruz, José Ramón; Arnau Martínez, Francisco José; Piqueras Cabrera, Pedro(Elsevier, 2011-01)
The use of particulate filters (DPF) in Diesel engines has become in recent years the standard technology for the control of soot aerosol emissions. Once emissions reduction through the management of filtration and ...
[EN] Turbocharger performance maps provided by manufacturers are usually far from the assumption of reproducing the isentropic
performance. The reason being, those maps are usually measured using a hot gas stand. The ...
Serrano, J.R.; Arnau Martínez, Francisco José; García-Cuevas González, Luis Miguel; Gómez-Vilanova, Alejandro; Guilain, Stephane; Batard, Samuel(ASME International, 2021-04-01)
[EN] In this work, a methodology is proposed to standardize turbochargers testing based on measuring the maps twice: in close to adiabatic and in diathermal conditions. Along the paper, it is discussed with special detail ...
[EN] In compliance with oncoming emission directives, turbocharging and increasing complexity in the turbocharger system demands a great effort from researchers on the development of effective procedures and tools to cope ...
[EN] New regulation standards on engine pollutant emissions are widening the engine operating conditions subjected
to type approval tests as a way to prevent from the gap between regulated and real-driving emissions. In ...
Payri González, Francisco; Serrano Cruz, José Ramón; Fajardo, Pablo; Reyes Belmonte, Miguel Ángel; Gozalbo Belles, Ricardo(Elsevier, 2012-03)
This paper details a physically based methodology to perform an extrapolation of the radial turbine performance maps, both mass flow characteristics and the efficiency curve. This method takes into account a narrow range ...
Serrano, J.R.; Arnau Martínez, Francisco José; García-Cuevas González, Luis Miguel; Samala, Vishnu(MDPI AG, 2020-03)
[EN] The current investigation describes in detail a mass flow oriented model for extrapolation of reduced mass flow and adiabatic efficiency of double entry radial inflow turbines under any unequal and partial flow admission ...
Serrano Cruz, José Ramón; Olmeda González, Pablo Cesar; Arnau Martínez, Francisco José; Reyes Belmonte, Miguel Ángel; Tartoussi, Hadi(Elsevier, 2015-10-05)
Nowadays turbochargers play an important role in improving internal combustion engines (ICE) performance.
Usually, engine manufacturers use computer codes to predict the behaviour of both engine
and turbocharger, the ...
[EN] The heat transfer model can be used in a one-dimensional (1-D) engine simulation. When the engine speed is reduced to zero, the codes have been upgraded to calculate transient turbocharger thermal conditions. The ...
Serrano, J.R.; Dolz, Vicente; Gómez-Vilanova, Alejandro; López-Carrillo, Juan Antonio(Elsevier, 2024-03)
[EN] The global push to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has led to the ban of high global warming potential (GWP) refrigerants in the refrigeration sector, prompting the adoption of low-GWP alternatives. However, as ...
Serrano, J.R.; Arnau Martínez, Francisco José; García-Cuevas González, Luis Miguel; Samala, Vishnu; Guilain, Stephane; Batard, Samuel(ASME International, 2021-07-01)
[EN] Despite the importance of turbocharged engines with dual-volute turbines, their characteristic maps and fully predictive modeling using 1D gas dynamic codes are not well established yet. The complexity of unsteady ...
Serrano, J.R.; Arnau Martínez, Francisco José; García-Cuevas González, Luis Miguel; Inhestern, Lukas Benjamin(Elsevier, 2019-08-01)
[EN] Pulsating flow in automotive turbocharger turbines makes it necessary to know performance characteristics in difficult to measure off-design conditions. Physically based extrapolation models can be used to extrapolate ...
An on-engine method for dynamic characterisation of automotive NOx concentration sensors is presented. Steps in start of injection on a diesel engine are employed to achieve step-like NOx concentration variations on exhaust ...
Serrano Cruz, José Ramón; Olmeda González, Pablo Cesar; Arnau Martínez, Francisco José; Dombrovsky, A.; Smith, L.(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015-02)
In the present work a comprehensive study of turbocharger heat transfer phenomena is
discussed, showing their relevance compared to gas enthalpy variations through the turbomachinery.
The study provides an experimental ...
Serrano, J.R.; Arnau Martínez, Francisco José; Bares-Moreno, Pau; Gómez-Vilanova, Alejandro; Garrido-Requena, J.; Luna-Blanca, M. J.; Contreras-Anguita, F. J.(Elsevier, 2021-01-15)
[EN] As pollutants and fuel consumption requirements become more constraining, new internal combustion engines generation arise to fulfill future automobile market regulations. In these context spark ignition (SI) engines ...
[EN] Worldwide emission standards are now required to cover engine operation under extreme ambient conditions, which affect the raw emissions and the efficiency of the exhaust aftertreatment systems. These regulations also ...
Wall-flow particulate filters are in the present days a standard aftertreatment system widely used in diesel engines
to reduce particle emissions and meet emission regulations. This paper deals with the analysis of the ...
[EN] According to current worldwide trends for homologation vehicles in real driving conditions is forced to test the engines in altitude and in highly dynamic driving cycles in order to approach nowadays and next future ...
Serrano Cruz, José Ramón; Climent, H.; Piqueras, P.; García Afonso, Óscar(Elsevier, 2013-04)
This paper presents a chemical species transport model to account for variable composition and gas properties along the flow path in internal combustion engines. The numerical solution to adapt the gas dynamic model to ...