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LONGRUN Final Event on October 9th, 2023

LONGRUN is organising its final event on 9 October in Aachen as a pre-event to Aachen Colloquium. Join the LONGRUN event which is taking place just hours before the Aachen…

VTC2023 – Spring

LONGRUN partner Tecnalia will present its work on the Simulation Platform at the VTC 2023 conference, taking place in Florence, Italy from 18-21 June 2023. VTC stands for Vehicular Technology…

Pollutant Emission Reduction

Aftertreatment System Solutions (2) for a Diesel/HVO Engine and a SI Gas Engine were thought after. 1.Characteristics and specifications of EAS for stoichiometric gas combustion concept with biomethane: AVL…

Optimisation of the Dual Fuel combustion

The project partners (OEMs, engineering partners and fuel suppliers) discussed about possible sustainable fuels and combustion systems which are promising with regards to high thermal efficiency, low engine-out emissions and…

Single cylinder activities on H2 combustion

LONGRUN is focussing on both future alternative liquid fuels auch as HVO for an optimised Compression Ignition (CI) combustion, as well as on Direct Injection (DI) Hydrogen spark ignited combustion….

Irizar demonstrator vehicle

A P2 parallel hybrid configuration has been chosen for the IRIZAR vehicle. The parallel architecture consist of an electric machine placed in line with the ICE. It is referred as…

LONGRUN LCA calculation tool

LONGRUN Partners VUB and TUG have jointly develop a standalone platform (GUI tool) for LCA calculations with a focus on lifetime carbon footprint (gCO2eq/km) and overall energy consumption (kWh/km). The…

LONGRUN SIMULATION PLATFORM

SEPTEMBER 2022 – LONGRUN SIMULATION PLATFORM READY – FIRST MODELING RESULTS AVAILABLE (TECNALIA): The LONGRUN simulation platform is a tool for the calculation of energy consumption and CO2 emissions of…

VDL Series Hybrid configuration

VDL is realising a long haulage series-hybrid e-coach with ICE range extender and zero-emissions driving range capability, enabling its operation in a Zero Urban Emission Zone (ZUEZ) within cities with…

IRIZAR P2 hybrid powertrain configuration and connected strategies

To reduce GHG emissions and contribute to the project´s objectives, IRIZAR has proposed to develop a Hybrid vehicle with State of the Art (SotA) Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) fueled with…

IRIZAR savings potential

Simulation shows up to 7,59% of potential saving with hybridization and electrification! However, it varies quite a lot depending on the driving cycle.

IRIZAR Hybrid Architecture

Due to a good compromise among Fuel economy, CO2 emissions and powertrain integration complexity (which have direct impact on TCO), parallel hybrid powertrain topologies are currently a suitable HEV solution…

Innovative coolant pump design and testing

The replacement of conventional centrifugal pumps of Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) with volumetric pumps, in particular Sliding Rotary Vane Pump (SVRP), leads to a proven reduction of fuel consumption and…

Innovative combustion and ignition system – CFD and SCE activities update

FPT is very pleased with the excellent combution system called SwumbleTM, meaning a significant improvement of the efficiency of the spark-ignited engine is in sight! The single cylinder engine (SCE)…

DAF 50% BTE improvement

September 2022 Bringing all engine measures together a BTE of more than 50 % can be achieved when using HVO fuel. This means that DAF found a roadmap towards 50%,…