Engine testing : electrical, hybrid, IC engine and power storage testing and test facilities / Anthony J. Martyr, David R. Rogers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martyr, Anthony, author.

Rogers, David (David R.), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internal combustion engines--Testing.

Internal combustion engines.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 pages)

Edition:

Fifth edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Butterworth-Heinemann, an imprint of Elsevier, [2021]

Summary:

Engine Testing: Electrical, Hybrid, IC Engine and Power Storage Testing and Test Facilities, Fifth Edition covers the requirements of test facilities dealing with e-vehicle systems and different configurations and operations.

Contents:

Front Cover

Engine Testing

Copyright Page

Contents

About the authors

Preface to the 5th edition of Engine Testing

Introduction

1 Test facility specification, system integration, and project organization

The product is data

System integration

Levels of test facility specification

Note concerning quality management certification and accreditation

Why do we need an enclosed test cell?

Creation of an operational specification for a powertrain test facility

Key points to consider

Audit proposed of existing site(s) early in the specification process

Specification of control and data acquisition systems

Feasibility studies and outline planning permission

Regulations, planning permits, and safety discussions covering test cells

Creation of functional specifications: some common difficulties

Interpretation of quotation specifications

After what comes how?

Project roles and management

The project triangle

Project management tools: communications and responsibility matrix

Web-based control and communications

Use of "master drawing" in project control

After how comes when?-project timing charts

The importance of final documentation

Summary

References

2 Quality and health and safety management

Part one: quality and test facility quality certification

Management roles

Work scheduling

The role of key life testing in powertrain quality assurance

Vehicle and vehicle systems type approval, homologation, and confirmation of production

Type-approval "E" and "e" marking

Use and maintenance of test cell logbooks

Test execution, analysis, and reporting

Maintaining test data quality and security

Cell-to-cell correlation of internal combustion engine performance

Power test codes and correction factors.

Part two: health and safety legislation, management, and risk assessment

Considering the common hazards in internal combustion engine, e-motor, and powertrain facilities

The importance of cabinet labeling

Risk analysis

The special case of management and supervision of university test facilities

Notes concerning determination of cause and effect

End note concerning possible restrictions imposed by health and safety regulations

Websites

3 Test facility design and construction

Part 1: Calculation of a test facility energy balance

Part 2: Test facility workspace design

Frequency of change of units under test and their handling systems

Workspaces and their roles

The test cell-the hazard containment box

Are lifting beams needed on in automotive powertrain test cells?

Best position for power and control cabinets: in an internal combustion engine test cell or plant room?

Seeing and hearing the unit under test: are test cell windows required?

Test cell flooring and subfloor construction

Fluid drainage from test cells and rig areas

Wall and roof construction of nonmodular test cell systems

Plant room structure and contents

Disabled access

Cell and control room lighting

Test cell doors

Modular and containerized test cells

Battery pack testing using cells based on ISO Reefers or similar modular units

Modular, all-weather (type 2) test cells

Modular "building within a building" (Type 3)

Common variations in layouts of multiples of test cells

Limitations in the location of test cells

Alarms, emergency exits, and safety signs

Transducer boxes and wall-mounted booms

Part 3: Fire safety and fire suppression in automotive test facilities

European Atmospheric explosion codes applied to engine test cells.

Fire and gas detection and alarm systems for test facilities

Fire extinguishing systems

Microfog water systems

Carbon dioxide

Inergen

Handheld fire extinguishers

Dry powder (Class D extinguishers)

Fire stopping of cable and pipe penetrations in cell structure

Part 4: The control room

Control room design

In-cell control of the unit under test

Part 5: Special-purpose test facilities

The requirements of a basic after-market internal combustion engine test bed

Automotive engine production test cells: hot and cold testing

End-of-line test station facility layout

Large and medium-speed diesel engine test areas

4 Electrical design requirements of test facilities

Note concerning effect of electrical shock on humans

Note concerning terms related to "earthing" and "grounding"

Overview

Modern test facilities uses of electrical power

Power to cell services and systems

Power to an internal combustion engine unit under test

Dynamometer power systems

Power to hybrid electric vehicles and battery electric vehicles test cells

The electrical engineer's design role

Physical environment

Electrical signal and measurement interference

Earthing system design

The layout of cabling

Electrical cabinet ventilation

Security of supply

Power to an internal combustion engine under test

Supply interconnection of disturbing and sensitive devices

Power cable material and bend radii

Electrical power supply specification

Electrical supply connection

Test cell's electrical roles: importing and exporting

Power to Mild-hybrid, hybrid electric vehicles and battery electric vehicles test cells

Mild-hybrid electric vehicle (mHEV).

Hybrid electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles

Battery electric vehicles

Considerations in converting internal combustion engine to electric motor assembly test cells

Cell heat load from e-motors

General consideration for battery emulation and direct current power sources and sinks

Recording the evolution of the test cell electrical system

European safety standards and Conformité Europeen marking

Safety interaction matrix

Further reading

5 Ventilation and air-conditioning of automotive test facilities

Part 1: The basics and the heat capacity of cooling air

Sources of heat in the test cell

The internal-combustion engine

The dynamometer

Other sources of heat

Worked example of heat transfer into the test cell from the internal-combustion engine body and exhaust

Heat transfer into the test cell from the exhaust system

Heat transfer into cell air from the walls

Calculation of ventilation load

Part 2: Ventilation strategies

The application of a diversity factor when specifying shared services

Ventilation strategies

Air handling units

Purge fans: safety ventilation system requirements to reduce explosion risk

The special case of ventilation of test areas using hydrogen

Part 3: Design of ventilation ducts and distribution systems

Pressure losses

Ducting and fittings

Inlet and outlet ducting

The use of "spot fans" for supplementary cooling of unit under test or other in-cell heat sources

Air movers

Fire dampers within inlet and outlet ducting

Ventilation duct silencers

External ducting of ventilation systems

Control of test cell ventilation systems

Ventilation fans: designs and features

Fan noise

Part 4: Air-conditioning

Legionnaires' disease

Effects of humidity: a warning.

Part 5: Treatment of internal-combustion engine combustion air and climatic test cells

Temperature-only control, flooded inlet combustion air units

Humidity-controlled combustion air units

Pressure-temperature-humidity-controlled combustion air units

Important system integration points concerning combustion air systems

Climatic testing internal-combustion engine powertrains

Climatic cells for electrical powertrain units and batteries

Climatic test cells for vehicles

Automotive wind tunnels

Notations

6 Cooling water and exhaust systems

Part 1: Cooling water supply systems fundamentals

The basics: Properties of water

Water quality required in a primary cooling water circuit

Solids in water

Water hardness

The pH value of cooling water and chemical additives

Special case of large marine engine dynamometers

Required flow rates for test cell modules and unit under test

Cooling systems for automotive traction motors

Types of test cell cooling water circuits

Direct mains water to waste cooling

Open plant water-cooling circuits

Closed plant water-cooling circuits

Engine coolant temperature control: Radiators and cooling columns

Closed engine coolant and oil temperature control modules

Temperature control and the effects of system thermal inertia

Chilled water circuits

Engine thermal shock testing

Commissioning of cooling water circuits

Part 2: Exhaust gas systems

Safety issues with test facility exhaust systems

Common test cell exhaust layouts

Individual cell, close-coupled exhaust

Individual cell, scavenged duct

Multiple cells, common scavenged duct

Cooling of exhaust gases

Estimation of exhaust gas flows

Exhaust noise

Exhaust pipe termination

Exhaust cowls on buildings

Further reading.

7 Energy storage.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-12-823952-2

OCLC:

1206398660