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In-use emissions testing of diesel-driven buses in Southampton: Is selective catalytic reduction as effective as fleet operators think?

In-use emissions testing of diesel-driven buses in Southampton: Is selective catalytic reduction as effective as fleet operators think?
In-use emissions testing of diesel-driven buses in Southampton: Is selective catalytic reduction as effective as fleet operators think?
Despite the continuously tightening emissions legislation, urban concentrations of nitrogen oxides (NOx) remain at harmful levels. Road transport is responsible for a large fraction, wherein diesel engines are the principal culprits. Turbocharged diesel engines have long been preferred in heavy duty applications, due to their torque delivery and low fuel consumption. Fleet operators are under pressure to understand and control the emissions of their vehicles, yet the performance of emissions abatement technology in real-world driving is largely unquantified. The most popular NOx abatement technology for heavy duty diesel vehicles is selective catalytic reduction. In this work, we empirically determine the efficiency of a factory-fitted SCR system in realworld driving by instrumenting passenger buses with both a portable emissions measurement system (PEMS) and a custom built telematics unit to record key parameters from the vehicle diagnostics systems. Wefindthateveninrelativelyfavourableconditions, while there is some improvement due to the use of SCR, the vehicles operate far from the design emissions targets. The archival value of this paper is in quantification of real world emissions versus design levels and the factors responsible for the discrepancy, as well as in examination of technologies to reduce this difference.
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Sowman, Jonathan, Box, Simon, Wong, Alan, Grote, Matthew, Laila, Dina Shona, Gillam, Neil Gordon, Cruden, Andrew, Preston, Jonathan and Fussey, Peter (2018) In-use emissions testing of diesel-driven buses in Southampton: Is selective catalytic reduction as effective as fleet operators think? IET Intelligent Transport Systems, 12 (6), 521-526. (doi:10.1049/iet-its.2017.0173).

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Despite the continuously tightening emissions legislation, urban concentrations of nitrogen oxides (NOx) remain at harmful levels. Road transport is responsible for a large fraction, wherein diesel engines are the principal culprits. Turbocharged diesel engines have long been preferred in heavy duty applications, due to their torque delivery and low fuel consumption. Fleet operators are under pressure to understand and control the emissions of their vehicles, yet the performance of emissions abatement technology in real-world driving is largely unquantified. The most popular NOx abatement technology for heavy duty diesel vehicles is selective catalytic reduction. In this work, we empirically determine the efficiency of a factory-fitted SCR system in realworld driving by instrumenting passenger buses with both a portable emissions measurement system (PEMS) and a custom built telematics unit to record key parameters from the vehicle diagnostics systems. Wefindthateveninrelativelyfavourableconditions, while there is some improvement due to the use of SCR, the vehicles operate far from the design emissions targets. The archival value of this paper is in quantification of real world emissions versus design levels and the factors responsible for the discrepancy, as well as in examination of technologies to reduce this difference.

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Accepted/In Press date: 29 January 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 5 July 2018
Published date: 1 August 2018

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Local EPrints ID: 417770
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/417770
ISSN: 1751-956X
PURE UUID: deaffd8b-827c-41d7-8bfd-791e6d5d3ac7
ORCID for Matthew Grote: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-5590-7150
ORCID for Andrew Cruden: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-3236-2535
ORCID for Jonathan Preston: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6866-049X

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Date deposited: 13 Feb 2018 17:30
Last modified: 06 Jun 2024 04:19

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Author: Jonathan Sowman
Author: Simon Box
Author: Alan Wong
Author: Matthew Grote ORCID iD
Author: Dina Shona Laila
Author: Neil Gordon Gillam
Author: Andrew Cruden ORCID iD
Author: Peter Fussey

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