Beyond Conventional Powertrain: SVT 2015

Overview

This event has now been cancelled and will run later in 2015

Sustainable Vehicle Technologies (SVT) 2015 will examine the latest advances in propulsion and vehicle efficiency technologies with a view to understanding the latest developments of systems for carbon dioxide reduction over the entire vehicle lifecycle.

The conference develops the themes studied at the 2009 Low Carbon Vehicle conference and SVT 2012, which considered all areas of environmental pollution in addition to the goals for delivering low-carbon vehicles. SVT 2015 will build on these themes and consider the developments in vehicle technology that are shaping the latest propulsion systems.

As powertrain technologies and fuel sources diversify, measures of vehicle emissions taken at the tailpipe will not account for CO2 emissions and wider environmental impacts arising from raw material extraction, transportation, manufacture, power generation, use, maintenance and disposal.

SVT 2015 will answer the burning questions:

- What are the appropriate techniques to assess these impacts?

- How can we make sure we are measuring the right things and aiming at the right targets?

- What influence will improved data in this area have on future powertrain architectures?

SVT 2015 will build on these themes and consider the developments in vehicle technology and innovative propulsion systems for the delivery of low-carbon vehicles.

Technologies that will be included in the conference cover conventional, hybridised and electric powertrains as well as alternative approaches and fuels, driver information systems.

Beyond Conventional Powertrain: SVT 2015 will cover three main topics:

Technologies:

The conference will have a powertrain focus, inviting contributions from a range of sectors including two-wheelers, passenger cars, light duty commercial, PSV, HGV, and non-road mobile machinery. Technologies to discuss include conventional, hybridised and electric powertrains, as well as alternative approaches and driver information systems.

We would love to hear contributions that document the interactions between vehicle and driver behaviour in the real world operating environment.

Development Methods:

We are looking for contributions detailing the effect of regulation changes on test and development methods, test equipment and instrumentation including Portable Emission Measurement Systems (PEMS) and laboratory representations of real world behaviour, for example the experiences of/tools used by OEMs to respond to EU6.2 in the vehicle development process.

Future developments:

Widening the scope of emissions-type approval to consider full life-cycle assessment, life-cycle assessment of EVs and hybrids, this section will consider the recent research and future prospects of sustainable vehicle technology.

As powertrain technologies and fuel sources diversify, measures of vehicle emissions taken at the tailpipe will not account for CO2 emissions and wider environmental impacts arising from raw material extraction, transportation, manufacture, power generation, use, maintenance and disposal. We ask what are the appropriate techniques to assess these impacts, how can we make sure we are measuring the right things and aiming at the right targets and what influence will improved data in this area have on future powertrain architectures?

Day 1

09:30 - Full day programme

09:30 REGISTRATION, REFRESHMENTS AND CONFERENCE WELCOME
Professor Lord Bhattacharyya, WMG, University of Warwick

09:35 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Tony Pixton, Chief Executive, APC

09:50 SESSION 1 - ENGINE ARCHITECTURES

3-CYLINDER VDE ENGINE
Andrew Brumley, Chief Engineer, Ford Motor Company

INTEGRATION OF FORM AND FUNCTION – IMPACT POWERTRAIN
Dr Simon Edwards, Global Director, Technology, Ricardo

RANKINE CYCLE EXHAUST HEAT RECOVERY – SET TO REDUCE FUEL
CONSUMPTION BY MORE THAN 5% ON COMMERCIAL VEHICLES
Robert Winstanley, Lead Technical Services Engineer, ANSYS

11:00 NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK

11:30 SESSION 2 - MILD HYBRID AND ADVANCED BOOSTING

POTENTIAL OF 48V BOARDNET
Speaker to be announced

A NUMERICAL STUDY OF ELECTRICALLY ASSISTED BOOSTING SYSTEM
LAYOUTS
Dr Richard Burke, Lecturer, University of Bath

RAPID ASSESSMENT OF ELECTRIC SUPERCHARGER SYSTEM LAYOUTS FOR
ENGINE DOWNSIZING
Alessandro Renna, CAE Engineer, AVL Powertrain

13:00 NETWORKING LUNCH

14:00 SESSION 3 - ADVANCED TRANSMISSION AND DRIVELINE

THE RICARDO LOW-COST, MILD-HYBRID, ELECTRIC-AUTOMATED MANUAL
TRANSMISSION (EAMT)
Jonathan Seed, Chief Engineer Design & CAE, Ricardo

METHODOLOGY FOR EFFICIENCY PREDICTION FOR ADVANCED DRIVE
SYSTEMS
Confirmed Representative, GKN

MEASUREMENT AND REDUCTION OF PARASITIC LOSSES FOR HEAVY DUTY
AXLES
Barry James, Chief Technical Officer, Head of R&D, Romax Technology

15:30 NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK

16:00 SESSION 4 - ENERGY STORAGE AND ELECTRIC MACHINES

NEXT-GENERATION ENERGY STORAGE
Nigel Taylor, Senior Manager Advanced Energy Storage & Consumption, Low-Carbon Vehicles
Research, Jaguar Land Rover

HIGH-PERFORMANCE AND LOW CO2 FROM A FLYBRID® MECHANICAL KINETIC
ENERGY RECOVERY SYSTEM
Dr Andrew Deakin, Chief Development Engineer, Torotrak Group

ADVANCED STEELS FOR FUTURE AUTOMOTIVE POWERTRAIN
Dr Iain McGregor, Manager Technology, Tata Steel

17:30 DRINKS RECEPTION AT APC SHOWCASE
This will be followed by a buffet on the IDL concourse

Day 2

09:30 - Full day programme

09:30 REGISTRATION, REFRESHMENTS AND CONFERENCE WELCOME
David Greenwood, Professor of Advanced Propulsion Systems, University of Warwick

09:35
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Jerry Hardcastle OBE, Vice President, Nissan Technical Centre Europe

09:50 SESSION 1 - REAL-WORLD EMISSIONS

ENERGY USE IN VEHICLES
Ian Ellison, Sustainability Manager, Jaguar Land Rover

USING ENHANCED LOGGED TELEMATICS DATA TO ASSESS THE IMPACT OF
DRIVER BEHAVIOUR ON ENERGY USE OF AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE
Michael Abbott, EngD Candidate, WMG, University of Warwick

IMPLEMENTATION OF ENERGY-EFFICIENT CABIN TECHNOLOGIES TO
IMPROVE OVERALL VEHICLE EFFICIENCY
Aled Gravelle, Engineer Specialist, Jaguar Land Rover

11:00 NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK

11:30 SESSION 2 - ROAD LOAD REDUCTION

SHAPE OPTIMISATION FOR AERODYNAMIC EFFICIENCY USING ADJOINT
METHODS
Mark Sealy, Engineering Director, Commercial Vehicle Sector

HEAVY DUTY VEHICLES CO2 EMISSIONS – REFRIGERATED VEHICLE DESIGN
TO STAY AHEAD OF THE CURVE
Lionel Curtis, Technical Director, Cartwright Group

STAMPED THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITES FOR FAST CYCLE TIMES
Professor Richard Dashwood, Academic Director, WMG

13:00 NETWORKING LUNCH - TOUR OF WMG AVAILABLE
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14:00 SESSION 3 - POWERTRAIN MODELLING SIMULATION

HIGH-VOLTAGE COMPONENT THERMAL MANAGEMENT: USING MBSE
METHODS
Dr Charles Jones, Technical Specialist, Electronics & Controls, AVL Powertrain

SIMULATION OF DYNAMIC TORQUE RIPPLE IN AN AUXILIARY POWER UNIT
FOR A RANGE-EXTENDED ELECTRIC VEHICLE
Dian Liu, PhD Student, University of Bath

RAPID CONCEPT DESIGN AND OPTIMISATION OF HYBRID ELECTRIC
POWERTRAINS OVER MULTIPLE DRIVE CYCLES
Dr Kathryn Taylor, R&D Project Engineer, Romax Technology

15:00 NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK

15:30 SESSION 4 - VEHICLE APPLICATIONS

DEVELOPMENT OF A RANGE-EXTENDED ELECTRIC 7.5 TONNE TRUCK
Robert Watson, Chief Engineer, Teva Motors

THROUGH-THE-ROAD PARALLEL HYBRID WITH IN-WHEEL MOTORS
Mike Bassett, Head of Hybrid Group, MAHLE Powertrain

A THERMODYNAMIC TRANSIENT MODEL OF AN EVAPORATIVELY COOLED
POLYMER ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE FUEL CELL SYSTEM FOR AUTOMOTIVE
APPLICATIONS
Dr Pratap Rama, Manager & Chris Gurney, Senior Research Engineer, Platform Architecture &
Sub-Systems Engineering, Intelligent Energy

FUELS CELLS AT LOW TEMPERATURES
Dr Ralph Clague, Head of Motive Systems & Architecture, Intelligent Energy

FORMULA E BATTERY DEVELOPMENT
Confirmed Representative, Williams

17:30 CLOSE OF CONFERENCE

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