Car manufacturers today face the dual challenge of addressing the impact of automotive emissions on the environment while remaining competitive in a geographic enlargement growing automotive market. Solutions based on new combustion modes or downsizing technology are constrained by the variability of fuels qualities. This variability due to worldwide as well as local distinct specifications, is impacted by the coming proliferation of new fuels like biofuels (1st generation) and synthetics (2ndgeneration). For a given specification, quality variations are explained first by the crude oil disparity, then by the various existing refining process tools and finally by the large range of blending recipes used to adjust the final product.
Regarding this issue, accounting for quality fluctuation provides the solution that would adjust engine tuning based on the fuel engine combination, in order to optimize consumption, emissions and performances.
SP3H, patented system offers the only existing solution to manage variability, through real time dertermination of fuel quality.
SP3H is a French startup developing a smart on-board fuel sensor that analyzes the molecular structure of a fuel and transmits the information to the engine ECU to allow real-time optimization of injection, combustion and post-treatment for a wide range of liquid fuels. The variability of existing fuels poses a problem for automakers as they try to minimize emissions and fuel consumption. Exacerbating this problem is the coming proliferation of new fuels (biofuels, synthetics) that create even more variability, combined with the push for new combustion modes that, while offering emissions. A microanalyzer has been developed by SP3H and its capability was successfully proven. This smart fuel sensor is based on combination of infrared technology and specific data treatment software.
A new breakthrough
This system uses the patented HydroCarbon Profiler technology (HCP) which measures the molecular structure of the fuel. This method allows an innovative way to determine fuel components. Compared to current methods of analyses, HCP give accurate information matching more the chemistry aspect of combustion.
This information, transmitted to the engine ECU, allows real time optimization of injection strategies, combustion and post treatment for all possible diesel and gasoline fuels.
Source : SP3H
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