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Innovations in Fuel Economy and Sustainable Road Transport : 8-9 November 2011, Pune, India /

This book presents the papers from the Innovations in Fuel Economy and Sustainable Road Transport conference, held in Pune, India, 8-9 November, 2011. Papers examine advances in powertrain, alternative fuels, lightweight vehicles, electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles. An international assembly of s...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: Innovations in Fuel Economy and Sustainable Road Transport Pune, India, Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Great Britain). Automobile Division
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Philadelphia : Woodhead Publishing, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Innovations in Fuel Economy and Sustainable Road Transport; Copyright; CONTENTS; HYBRID AND ELECTRIC VEHICLES; Meeting the global challenges for hybrid and electric vehicles; ABSTRACT; 1 MEETING THE CHALLENGE; 2 THE BUSINESS MODEL; 3 CORE VALUES; 4 TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP; 5 SUMMARY; 6 REFERENCE LIST; Lithium-ion pack thermal modeling and evaluation of indirect liquid cooling for electric vehicle battery thermal management; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. LI-ION BATTERY PACK CONFIGURATION; 3. BATTERY THERMAL MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT TOOLS; 4. CELL ELECTRO-THERMAL SIMULATION AND VALIDATION
  • 5. VEHICLE LEVEL DUTY CYCLE SIMULATIONS6. CONCLUSION; 7. REFERENCES; Premium luxury hybrid vehicles; ABSTRACT; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 TYPES OF AND BENEFITS FROM HYBRIDS; 3 HYBRID VEHICLE OPERATION; 4 LUXURY VEHICLE PROPULSION; 5 JLR HYBRID RESEARCH PROJECTS; 6 CONCLUSIONS; 7 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 8 REFERENCES; Performance of an electric vehicle conversion at the University of Nottingham, Malaysia; ABSTRACT; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. ELECTRIC VEHICLE CONVERSION; 3. DATA ACQUISITION AND TESTING; 4. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION; 5. REFERENCES
  • A Tata Motors perspective for sustainable transportation and the development of the Tata Vista EVABSTRACT; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. TATA MOTORS' PERSPECTIVE ON SUSTAINABLE AND ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY TRANSPORTATION; 3. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TATA VISTA EV; 4. THE TATA VISTA EVX; 5. ACTUAL EV USAGE PATTERNS; 6. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCE LIST; Powertrain cooling concept selection process for hybrid electric vehicles; ABSTRACT; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. SELECTION OF AN OPTIMIZED COOLING CIRCUIT; 3. 1D MODELLING; 4. RESULTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS; 5. CONCLUSION; 6. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 7. REFERENCES
  • Regenerative braking system evaluation on a full electric vehicleABSTRACT; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 EXISTING TEST DATA; 3 TEST PROCEDURE; 4 RESULTS; 5 DISCUSSION; 6 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 7 REFERENCES; FUELS; Demonstrating the fuel economy potential of passenger car motor oils; ABSTRACT; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 ENGINE AND VEHICLE SIMULATION; 3 FUEL & LUBRICANT; 4 RESULTS; 5 CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; REFERENCE LIST; Biohydro-fined diesel (BHD) and biodiesel (BOD) production process and property review; ABSTRACT; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 BIO-HYDROFINING PROCESS; 3 COMPARISON OF PROPERTY
  • 4 LCA EVALUATION OF HYDROFINING5 HYDROGENATION REACTIVITY; 6 BHD FOR SUSTAINABLE ROAD TRANSPORT; 7 CONCLUSION; 8 REFERENCE LIST; Comparative study of NOx formation from biodiesel and diesel; ABSTRACT; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH; 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION; 4. CONCLUSIONS; 5. REFERENCE LIST; LIGHT WEIGHT VEHICLES; Validation of a virtual method for fracture prediction in the automotive body structure: a key enabler for light weight vehicles; ABSTRACT; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. EXPERIMENTAL METHOD; 3. DISCUSSION; 4. CONCLUSION; 5. REFERENCES; ADVANCES IN POWERTRAIN