Engine Research Group

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Welcome to the Home Page of the Internal Combustion Engine Research Group (ERG) at the University of Nottingham. We hope you will find the information given on this website both interesting and useful.

The ERG is one of the largest university research groups working on spark ignition and diesel engines for the automotive industry. For almost 20 years the ERG has worked closely with the Ford Motor Company in a collaboration which is one of the most successful between industry and a university.

The ERG interacts directly with Ford to advance powertrain development and introduce new technology, and pursues complementary lines of fundamental studies which support this. Areas of study include the performance and operation of engines during cold-start and warm-up, mixture preparation, cold-engine friction characteristics, emissions of hydrocarbons, CO, and NOx, and the control of these to within limits permitted by European and other International standards.

The Group is working on engine management system applications, new control strategy concepts and calibration techniques, and in areas where new methodologies for rapid, cost-effective development are required.

Facilities for experimental studies are excellent and we are very active in the development of computer aided engineering tools based on computational/analytical models. These include PROMETS (Program for Modelling Engine Thermal Systems), PROMEX (Program for Modelling Exhaust Systems), CECSP (Cold Emissions Cycle Simulation Program), and Nu-Sim which is a powertrain-in-vehicle performance simulation code for systems performance analysis and simultaneous engineering studies.

For more information please click one of the headings in the left hand column.