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Heavy-duty vehicle test facility at VTT Excellent tool to determine the effect of
traffic environment on emissions and energy use Juhani Laurikko
10 June 2008VTT Press Conference
Via Nordica
VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND
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Required power vs. speed
Driving resistances against speed for different vehicle categories (fully loaded)
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Key issues
At constant speed and on level ground motor vehicle energy use and emissions are at the lowest.
However, vehicles are subjected to the effects of street or road environment and local traffic situation, inducing changes in speed and at utmost, complete stops and re-accelerations.
Because normal motor vehicles are not able to recuperate the kinetic energy, all decelerations, stops and re-accelerations increase energy consumption.
The actual way of driving is usually referred as “duty-cycle”, and it may vary considerable with regard to:
vehicle type: urban bus / delivery truck / long-haul truck traffic environment: city centre / rural road / motorway
VTT is able to simulate actual on-road duty-cycles in laboratory environment with the ability to accurately determine energy consumption and exhaust emissions including particulates.
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Heavy-duty vehicle test facility at VTT
Transient-load dynamometer for full-size heavy vehicles Maximum vehicle inertia 60 tonnes Power absorption up to 300 kW at wheels, equals 500 hp at
engine Accurate fuel consumption and exhaust emission measurements,
incl. particulate matter (PM) size and mass
Enables realistic duty-cycle simulation Ability to include also road gradient
Versatile tool to assess duty-cycle responses, i.e. determine the effect of driving type and
traffic environment vehicle performance, i.e. compare different brands and
configurations
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Different duty-cycles plotted on urban bus engine map
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The effect of duty cycle
In actual driving, engine speed and load (torque) change almost all the time.
The eventual fuel consumption and energy use is determined by the spread of these momentary speed & torque pairs over the operating “map” of the engine, as energy consumption and exhaust emissions are not constant over the whole operating range.
Different driving cycles produce different spread over the “map” and thus their respective results are also different.
Due to the variations in engine characteristics, vehicle to vehicle responses may vary depending type of driving (urban, road etc.).
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Duty-cycle for urban delivery driving
Delivery cycle, original onroad data , 420 hp / 22 t
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Duty-cycle for urban delivery driving
Urban delivery operations are characteristically stop-and-go –type of driving with lots of changes in speed.
Therefore, specific fuel consumption over distance travelled (l/km) as well as related to transport work done (l/tonn-km) are usually much higher than in open road type of operations.
Typical values for 18 to 22 trucks in this type of duty is 25 to 42 l/100 km or 0.04 l/tonn-km,
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Highway cycle, original onroad data , 420 hp / 50 t
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Duty-cycle for driving on rural roads
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Characteristics for driving on rural roads
Speed in open road driving is typically less transient than in urban street environment.
However, especially in heavy trucks, road gradient has a major impact on power requirement and hence also consumption and exhaust emissions.
At those steepest uphills, full engine power may not be sufficient to maintain speed, and a drop in speed is inevitable.
As higher gradients are acceptable for normal roads than over motorways this may result in somewhat higher consumption in road vs. motorway driving.
Typical fuel consumption values for heavy trucks (42 and 60 tonnes) are 22 to 53 l/100 km, depending on total mass.
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Duty-cycle for driving on motorway
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Characteristics for driving on motorways
Speed on motorway is usually constant, and governed by the speed limiter (max. 89 km/h).
However, especially in heavy trucks, road gradient has a major impact on power requirement and can raise engine power to maximum level even at a modest grade (1 to 2%).
This has inevitable effect on fuel consumption and exhaust emissions.
At those steepest uphills, full engine power may not be sufficient to maintain speed, and a drop in speed is inevitable.
Specific fuel consumption in this type of driving is usually around 0.015 l/tonn-km.
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Fuel consumption: 42 tonn truck & semi-trailer
Fuel consumption on highway and freeway cycles. Semi-trailers (max. 42t), four brands.
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Fuel consumption: 60 tonn truck & full trailer
Fuel consumption on highway and freeway cycles. Trucks with full trailers (max. 60t), four brands.
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Vehicle comparisons
Due to the variations in engine characteristics, vehicle to vehicle responses may vary depending the type of driving (urban, road motorway).
Therefore, fuel consumption of different vehicle brands may also differ, even if the vehicles are targeted to same kind of operations.
According to our experiments using actual real-life duty- cycles, this variation may be as high as 15% at maximum, but is typically less than 10%.