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ICED Webinar Series: The Future of the Internal Combustion Engine

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In recent years, the stronger push for reducing GHG and pollutant criteria emissions has challenged vehicle manufacturers globally. In most applications, the strategy of deploying EVs to significantly reduce fleet-average tailpipe emissions has been impacted by slower-than-expected EV adoption rates. This has consequently led to renewed interest in hybridization of conventional powertrains. While hybrid powertrains add complexity, if optimized well for the application, they can offer best tradeoff between upfront cost, range, payload, performance, emissions and off-ambient operation.

In this webinar, Dr. Satyum Joshi and Dr. Guoqing Liu will give an overview of recent trends and technologies in hybrid powertrain development for passenger and commercial on-road vehicles. More specifically, Dr. Joshi will provide a deep-dive into model-based approach for powertrain architecture, component sizing and engine design optimization for commercial vehicle hybrid powertrains. Thereafter, Dr. Liu will present his insights on recent developments in passenger vehicle hybrid powertrains.

Yuanjiang Pei, PhD

MODERATOR
Yuanjiang Pei, PhD
Aramco Americas

Dr. Yuanjiang Pei is a Team Leader at the Aramco Americas' Detroit Research Center. His team focuses on innovating and developing sustainable transport technologies using state-of-the-art simulation tools. He recently initiated an industry-focused consortium called, IMPACT (Initiative for Modeling Propulsion and Carbon-neutral Transportation), to develop accelerated virtual methods for sustainable transport technologies. Pei is actively involved in the organization of several international conferences, serving both Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He was presented with numerous prestigious awards, including the HPCwire Award four years in a row and 2019 ASME Chairman’s Distinguished Service Award.

 

Satyum Joshi, PhD

PANELIST
Satyum Joshi, PhD
FEV North America, Inc.

Satyum Joshi is an Engineering Manager at FEV North America, Inc. with 12+ years of experience in simulation, controls, calibration and testing of engines, hybrids and fuel cell powertrains. He has a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a Doctoral Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Technological University with specialization in advanced boosting and vehicle electrification. Satyum's expertise includes model-based development of electrified powertrains, engine combustion system development and powertrain controls development.

 

Guoqing Liu, PhD

PANELIST
Guoqing Liu, PhD
Geely Powertrain Research and Institute

Guoqing Liu is the Chief Engineer of hybrid system development of Geely Powertrain Research and Insititute. He joined Geely in 2014 and has been focusing on the powertrain development since then, led the 1.5TD engine platform development, a joint project between Geely and Volvo Car, and then moved to Leishen hybrid system development as Chief engineer. Both projects won the first prize at SAE-China. Prior to joining Geely, Dr. Liu spent 11 years with Chery Auto Company focusing on combustion system development and engine simulation work. He obtained his PhD degree from Tianjin University in 2012 and his bachelor's and master’s degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2003.

Presentation Slides:
• Hybrid Powertrain Trends in Commercial Vehicle Propulsion Systems

 

Complimentary Webinar

Decarbonizing the marine industry is a high priority for both industry and governments around the world. Internal combustion engines running on alternative fuels are seen as the primary path to decarbonize shipping. This includes lower-carbon fossil fuels, like liquified natural gas (LNG), as well as carbon-neutral biofuels and e-fuels. This webinar will provide an overview of the recent trends and projections moving forward as it relates to the industry adopting alternative fuels, such as biodiesel, bio-oils, methanol, and ammonia.

The webinar will explore emerging engine technologies aimed at achieving the 2030 objectives. Additionally, it will address the technical hurdles and deployment obstacles, particularly focusing on methanol and ammonia.

Dr. Hyunchun Park

Speaker
Dr. Hyunchun Park
HD Hyundai Heavy Industries

Dr. Hyunchun Park is a senior researcher in the Engine Research Institute of HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, Korea. (HD HHI is the largest shipbuilder and marine engine builder in the world). He earned B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree from the Aerospace Engineering Department at KAIST (Korea). Also, he received his doctoral degree from ETH Zurich (Switzerland) for "Combustion modeling for large Dual-Fuel engines". Since 2009, he has participated in various marine engine development projects, ranging from Diesel, LNG to Dual-Fuel (Diesel and LNG). Recently, he is developing combustion system for methanol and ammonia marine engines. He is currently a member of the CIMAC Working Group 17, Gas Engines. Hyunchun is passionate in building a sustainable future for shipping and power generation with internal combustion engine and e-fuels.

 

Dr. Jim Szybist

Speaker
Dr. Jim Szybist
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Dr. Szybist is the head of the Propulsion Science Section at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His primary research interests center around decarbonizing transportation with the use of fuels that can be produced with a low lifecycle carbon footprint, such as biofuels and fuels that can be produces synthetically with renewable energy, such as hydrogen, methanol, and ammonia. He has had leadership roles multiple U.S. Department of Energy consortia: the Co-Optima initiative focused on the co-development of advanced engines and biofuels, and the partnership to advance combustion engine (PACE) consortium. As an individual contributor, he has had impactful research on autoignition processes that result in knock in spark ignited engines and autoignition in low temperature combustion engines, and using kinetics to develop an improved conceptual understanding of the phenomenon. He is a Fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and the 2015 recipient of the SAE Harry L. Horning Award. He received his Ph.D. from Penn State University in Fuel Science in in 2005 and then joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a post-doc.

 

Dr. Dr. Tiegang Fang

Moderator
Dr. Tiegang Fang
North Carolina State University

Tiegang Fang is a professor and a University Faculty Scholar in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at NC State University. He earned his BE degree from the Automotive Engineering Department with a minor from the Computer Science and Technology Department at Tsinghua University (Beijing). Before receiving his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana, he obtained his MS degree from the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department at Rutgers University. His research interests include internal combustion engines, low carbon fuels, engine combustion, liquid atomization and spray, and optical diagnostics. He has published more than 160 journal papers. He received the 2013 Alcoa Foundation Engineering Research Achievement Award from the College of Engineering at NC State University, the Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award from SAE International in 2014, and was elected to a University Faculty Scholar at NC State in 2020. He is a Fellow of ASME, a member of the Combustion Institute, SAE, and the Institute for Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems (ILASS). He currently serves as an associate editor for the ASME Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power.

 

The journey of the internal combustion engine can be summed up in two words: continuous improvement. Decades of engine research have provided better performance and continuously cleaner powertrains for both stationary and mobile power needs. The advent of renewable fuels further accelerated the gains in emissions abatement.

Dr. Cathy Choi, ClearFlame, will present her perspective on the past, current and future R&D journey for heavy-duty compression ignition engine systems. Dr. Stefania Esposito, University of Bath, will talk about how simulation tools can help us understand the further emissions impacts that renewable fuels, like methanol, can provide. The panel will be moderated by Dr. Andrea Strzelec, USCAR.

Cathy Choi

Speaker
Dr. Cathy Choi
Chief Sustainability Officer
ClearFlame Engine Technologies

As Chief Sustainability Officer at ClearFlame Engine Technologies, Cathy Choi leads the company's relationships with partners that share ClearFlame's mission to meet sustainability objectives. With more than three decades of energy and transportation experience she led global strategies to meet net zero greenhouse gas goals by 2050 that included new technology strategy and development and launched more than 100 low emissions engines and their applications, generating $30 billion in business. Cathy earned her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from UW – Madison, specializing in combustion and emissions formation and alternative fuels research.

 

Dr. Stefania Esposito

Speaker
Dr. Stefania Esposito
Lecturer
University of Bath and
Institute for Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems

Dr. Stefania Esposito is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Sustainable Propulsion Systems at the University of Bath and IAAPS – Institute for Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems. After obtaining her BSc and MSc in mechanical engineering in Italy, respectively at the Universities of Cassino and Bologna, she worked at FEV Europe in Aachen (Germany) before starting her PhD at the RWTH Aachen University at the Institute for Combustion Engines (now Chair of Thermodynamics of Mobile Energy Conversion Systems). After the PhD, she worked as Post-Doc and Group Leader at the Institute for Combustion Technology of the RWTH before joining Bath at the beginning of 2023.

Her expertise is in 0D/1D engine modelling with focus on combustion and emissions, 3D-CFD simulations, and fundamental combustion and emission experiments with single-cylinder engines. Her research interests lie in alternative fuels for combustion systems, especially methanol and hydrogen.

 

Cathy Choi

Moderator
Dr. Andrea Strzelec
USCAR

Dr. Andrea Strzelec is a Senior Research Scientist at USCAR, a Technology Company of Ford, GM, and Stellantis. She also holds an Associate Research Scientist appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she is the principal investigator over a $3.3M USDOE research award. Her research interests are in sustainable energy, life cycle analysis, exhaust aftertreatment, and heterogeneous reaction characterization. She is a Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Internal Combustion Engine Division Executive Committee and a Fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers.

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Hydrogen is regarded as a carbon-neutral fuel or energy carrier owing to no carbon-dioxides formation through combustion and its high energy density. The combustion behavior of hydrogen is different from conventional hydrocarbon fuels due to high diffusivity and burning velocity, low ignition energy, low flame quenching distance and wider flammable range, leading to excellent lean stratified combustion. Hydrogen combustion was analyzed in KAIST from a high-pressure hydrogen jet, mixing with air and combustion behavior in a constant-volume combustion chamber and a reciprocating engine. Schlieren images were taken at different ambient pressures to determine the behavior of the hydrogen jet, especially the stratified charge formation at different pressure. Direct combustion image and pressure measurement were used to analyze the combustion characteristics. An outwardly-opening injector injected the hydrogen-producing hollow-cone-shaped jet at 100 bars at all conditions. The jet collapse was caused by a pressure difference between the inside and outside of the hollow-cone-shaped jet. Energy conversion efficiency was maximized when the spark discharge occurred right after the end of the injection in a single-cylinder hydrogen engine experiment. The amount of NOx emission increased as the ignition timing was advanced since the in-cylinder pressure and temperature were changed. When the engine operated at homogenous combustion mode, it emitted high NOx emissions because of higher in-cylinder pressures and temperatures. However, even though the pressure and temperature were lower at lean stratified charge mode, more NOx was produced than in lean homogenous combustion mode because of the locally rich area near the spark plug. The optimization of lean stratified charge combustion was carried out to mitigate the gaseous pollutant formation.

In the Technion, recent experimental studies found elevated particle formation in a non-premixed hydrogen and hydrogen-rich reformate combustion compared to hydrocarbon fuels in a wide range of direct-injection spark-ignition engine operation regimes. This discovery contradicted all previously published data on particle formation in hydrogen combustion. In this presentation, we conceptualize the particle formation mechanism in non-premixed hydrogen combustion in internal combustion engines (ICE). This enabled us to match the previously published and newly gained data. The interlinked series of fundamental and engine-based experiments were accomplished, which allowed understanding and describing the physics behind the observed peculiarities in particle formation. The results show that enhanced particle formation in non-premixed hydrogen combustion in ICE results from a combined influence of the hydrogen’s low flame quenching distance that intensifies lubricant evaporation and the interaction between the lubricant vapor formed near the cylinder surface and the gaseous jet.

Leonid Tartakovsky

Speaker
Leonid Tartakovsky, PhD
Israel Institute of Technology

Assoc. Professor Leonid Tartakovsky is a Director of the Technion Internal Combustion Engines Laboratory at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and a member of the Nancy & Stephen Grand Technion Energy Program. Prof. Tartakovsky holds PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Central Automobile and Automotive Engines Research Institute – NAMI in Moscow. His research interests are focused on carbon-neutral propulsion technologies, thermochemical recuperation of waste heat, hydrogen and reformates combustion and emissions control. L. Tartakovsky serves as an Associate Editor of the SAE International Journal of Engines and Frontiers in Aerospace Engineering – Energetics and Propulsion. He is the Editorial Board member of several journals. Prof. Tartakovsky is a recipient of the SAE Forest R. McFarland Award, was elected SAE Fellow in 2016, and SAE Top Contributor in 2019. He is a Founding Chairman of three international conferences, served on the Organizing Committee of multiple conferences and has above 110 publications in journals, book chapters and conference proceedings.

Presentation Slides:
• Fundamental Hydrogen-Air Mixing, Combustion and Particulate Formation Processes in H2ICE: Particle Formation in Hydrogen Combustion

 

Choongsik Bae

Speaker
Choongsik Bae, PhD
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Prof. Bae serves as a professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and leads the Future Transport Power Lab, since 1998. He is also leading the CERC (Combustion Engineering Research Center) as a director. Throughout his academic career, he had the privilege of supervising 34 Ph.D. students and 50 M.S. students. He obtained his B.S. and M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Seoul National University, Republic of Korea, and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London, United Kingdom, in 1998. He is active in the interaction with the industry that he has worked as a Technical Advisor of Hyundai Motors on the occasion of his sabbatical leave from 2011 to 2012. He has been the Dean of the College of Engineering at KAIST during 2019-2020, working for innovation in engineering education. Throughout his research career, he made distinguishing research and technological achievements, including 152 international research papers. Several outstanding awards, such as the SAE Arch T. Colwell Merit award in 1997, SAE Harry Horning Award award in 2006, the SAE Fellow obtainment in 2012, and Presidential Commendation in 2022 distinguish what he achieved. Prof. Bae is currently working on the research for transport carbon-neutral transport power, including hydrogen jet formation, hydrogen combustion engine, and e-fuel engine combustion, mobile carbon capture, etc. He also continues research in conventional gasoline engine with the variety of diagnostics such as PIV, LIF, LIBs and optical imaging of in-cylinder flow, mixing and combustion process.

Presentation Slides:
• Lean Stratified Charged Hydrogen Combustion and Pollutant Formation

 

Avinash Kumar Agarwal

Moderator
Avinash Kumar Agarwal, PhD
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Avinash Kumar Agarwal is a Professor of I C Engines at IIT Kanpur. He is interested in combustion, conventional and alternative fuels, Methanol/DME/Hydrogen/HCNG fueled engine development, optical diagnostics, and laser ignition.

Prof. Agarwal has published over 510 peer-reviewed international journal and conference papers, 63 edited books, and 129 book chapters, attracting 15200+ Scopus and 23000+ Google Scholar citations. He edited Handbook of Combustion and 60+ Springer books on energy, environment and sustainability. For his outstanding contributions, Prof. Agarwal is conferred upon Sir J C Bose National Fellowship (2019) by SERB, SAE India Foundation GURU Award (2022), Clarivate Analytics India Citation Award-2017 in Engineering and Technology, Prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (2016) in Engineering Sciences, and many other awards in addition to inaugural version of Distinguished Alumni Award-2021 by MNIT Jaipur and Distinguished Alumni Award-2022 by IIT Delhi.

He is an elected Fellow of the SAE (2012), ASME (2013), INAE (2015), ISEES (2016), RSC(2018), NASI (2018), WSSET (2020), AAAS (2020) and CI (2022). At IIT Kanpur, Prof. Agarwal has established a state-of-the-art Engine Research Laboratory, and he was also the founder-director of IIT Kanpur's Science and Technology Research Park.

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Significant reductions in net carbon engine emissions are possible through the combination of improved fuel economy and the use of sustainable fuels. Gasoline direct injection fuel systems provide the means for improved combustion efficiency, but a key technology is the use of multiple injection events to achieve better mixture preparation and atomization. Understanding and controlling injector dynamics such as opening and closing time and transient needle lift is necessary when subjected to different fuel type, pressure, and temperature, as well as different injector build variation and age. A novel approach for injector control is to apply machine learning via artificial neural network fitting to learn injector dynamics over the life of the injector.

In this webinar, we will demonstrate how multiple injections can be used to tailor spray penetration and atomization dynamics for better fuel-air mixing, particularly for the renewable/sustainable fuels ethanol and methanol. We will explore how advanced optical diagnostics such as transparent nozzle visualization and high-speed extinction tomography lead to a more complete understanding of fuel delivery and droplet evaporation and provide valuable datasets for spray modeling. For control of the injection events, we will explain how measured differential voltage signals are used to create neural network training sets that encompass data under numerous operating conditions along with a wide range of injector hardware variations including parts toward the end of useful life. The predicted injector dynamics from the neural network are compared to measured data to evaluate the performance of the algorithms. Furthermore, multiple injector designs are evaluated to assess the robustness of the techniques across platforms.

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Lyle Pickett

Speaker
Lyle Pickett, PhD
Sandia national Laboratories

Dr. Lyle Pickett is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories, where he has been employed since 2000. His research expertise is in optical diagnostics of spray combustion in chambers that provide engine-relevant conditions at high pressure and temperature. He founded and leads an international experimental and modeling collaboration to share spray combustion datasets online through the Engine Combustion Network, encouraging the improvement of computational codes used to design and improve engines for increased efficiency and reduced emissions.

 

Michael Lucido

Speaker
Michael Lucido
Senior Staff Engineer
Advanced Vehicle Motion Controls, General Motors

Michael Lucido is a Senior Staff Engineer in Advanced Vehicle Motion Controls and has worked for General Motors for over 37 years in Control System Development. He has B.S. Electrical Engineering from Kettering University and M.S. Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Michael has over 39 Patents, has published several technical papers, and was awarded General Motors top technical honor, the Boss Kettering Award, that recognizes individuals who have developed truly outstanding innovations that have provided identifiable and substantial benefit to General Motors.

Michael is currently designing and developing advanced controls systems for various modes of propulsion; Internal Combustion Engines, Battery Electric, and Hydrogen Fuel Cell. Michael is currently involved in Department of Energy (DOE) project DE-FOA-0002450 Super Truck 3, award #DE-EE0009859. The objective of the Super Truck 3 project is to achieve a system-level greenhouse gas reduction of at least 75% by improving the efficiency of the vehicle(s) and the freight system while reducing total cost of operation and improving vehicle performance and reliability.

 

Ron Grover

Moderator
Ronald Grover, PhD
General Motors

Ronald (Ron) is employed as a Staff Researcher at General Motors Research and Development, Propulsion Systems Research Lab. He has over 20 years of experience in CFD modeling of internal combustion engines. Ron received his undergraduate degrees from Clark Atlanta University and the Georgia Institute of Technology in Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering, respectively. Ron received his masters and doctoral degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. Ron’s areas of expertise are modeling fuel sprays, in-cylinder air-fuel mixing, gasoline engine combustion, and thermal management of electric vehicle components.

In 2014, Ron was recognized nationally with the Black Engineer of the Year Most Promising Scientist Award in Industry. He formally served as industry co-chair of the USDRIVE Advanced Combustion and Emissions Control (ACEC) Tech Team. Currently, Ron serves as a member of the ASME Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) Division Executive Committee as an Industry Advisor and committee member for the ASME Internal Combustion Engine Award. Ron has 6 US Patents, 9 internal GM trade secrets, and 50+ external publications & presentations.

The hydrogen internal combustion engine (H2ICE) is fast evolving in recent years as an emerging technology in several roadmaps across the transportation and industrial sectors. As it can be developed from traditional combustion engines and has good tolerance to the impurity in the hydrogen feed gas, H2ICE can serve as an important bridge technology in the transition towards a future characterized by a mix of electrification and sustainable net-zero carbon fuels. Compared to conventional liquid and gaseous fuels, hydrogen has a unique set of fuel properties, thereby presenting the need to gain a fundamental understanding of the implications of these properties and apply the learnings for tailored engine combustion system architecture selection and development. For the same reasons, the computational analysis of H2ICEs will require improved or novel models that will have to be disseminated and implemented into leading engine simulation software.

In this webinar, we will start with a discussion of hydrogen's unique combustion properties, followed by a review of the current technology landscape. We will then speak about the key aspects in engine combustion system development involving fuel injection, fuel-air mixture formation, flame development and propagation, and abnormal combustion events (pre-ignition and knock). Next, recent progress in the computational modeling of H2ICEs will be reviewed and future computational needs will be identified and discussed.

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Dr. Riccardo Scarcelli

Speaker
Riccardo Scarcelli
Argonne National Laboratory

Dr. Riccardo Scarcelli leads the Multi-Physics Engine Computations group of the Advanced Propulsion and Power Department at Argonne National Laboratory. His background is on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applied to the multi-dimensional modeling of internal combustion engines (ICEs).

Dr. Scarcelli earned a Ph.D. on Engineering of Energy-Environment from the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" in 2008 and joined Argonne as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the end of the same year. He was promoted to become a Research Scientist in 2012. In the last 10+ years, Dr. Scarcelli has been leading several research projects funded by the U.S. Department of Energy with a focus on modeling high-efficiency ICEs, advanced ignition systems, and low-carbon fuels. Today, his research interests encompass a wide range of sectors, including internal combustion engines for propulsion and power applications, industrial decarbonization, hydrogen combustion and safety, advanced plasma technologies, etc.

Dr. Scarcelli has been conducting several professional activities and has been very active within the Society of Automotive Engineering (SAE) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME) networks. He currently serves as the Chair of the SAE Engine Combustion Committee, and as the Chair of the ASME ICE Division Honors and Awards. In 2021, Dr. Scarcelli was elected as a SAE Fellow and as a Distinguished Associate of the Internal Combustion Engine Division (ICED) of ASM

Yu Zhang

Speaker
Yu Zhang
Cummins Inc.

Yu Zhang is currently a Technical Advisor in Technical Strategy and Integration at Cummins’ Engine Business Unit. In this capacity, he utilizes advanced analytical and experimental approaches to drive sound decisions and develop technical contents that lead to highly efficient, environmentally friendly, and competitive propulsion system products in support of Cummins' Destination Zero strategy.

Prior to joining Cummins, Yu worked at Aramco's Research Center in Detroit for over 8 years, conducting fuels and engine combustion research, leading the heavy-duty gasoline compression ignition project, and managing the Propulsion Technology Development team. Previously, Yu also held positions at General Motors, FEV, and Navistar in engine combustion system technology development.

Yu serves on the editorial board for several journals including an Associate Editor position for ASME Journal of Energy Resources Technology. He also chairs multiple sessions at ASME and SAE events. Yu obtained his PhD in combustion research from Penn State University in 2010.

Kelly Senecal

Moderator
Kelly Senecal
Convergent Science

Dr. Kelly Senecal is a co-founder and owner of Convergent Science and one of the original developers of CONVERGE, an industry-leading computational fluid dynamics software. He is a visiting professor at the University of Oxford, an adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a co-founder and director of the Computational Chemistry Consortium (C3). Dr. Senecal is a Fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He is a member of the executive committee of the ASME Internal Combustion Engine Division, a member of the board of advisors for the Central States Section of the Combustion Institute, and the 2019 recipient of the ASME ICE Award.

Dr. Senecal has long been an advocate of creating cleaner propulsion systems, with a particular focus on using CFD and HPC to enable faster design. Starting with his TEDx talk in late 2016, he has promoted a diverse mix of transportation technologies through invited talks, articles, and social media. Dr. Senecal is co-author of the new book Racing Toward Zero: The Untold Story of Driving Green, winner of the 2022 Independent Press Award for Environment.

Yuanjiang Pei

Webinar Organizer
Yuanjiang Pei
Aramco Americas

Dr. Yuanjiang Pei leads the Computational Modeling Team at the Aramco Americas’ Detroit Research Center. His team focuses on innovating and developing advanced engine combustion concepts and low climate impact fuels using state-of-the-art simulation tools. He recently initiated an industry-focused consortium called, IMPACT (Initiative for Modeling Propulsion and Carbon-neutral Transportation, to develop accelerated virtual engine and fuel methods for sustainable transport technologies. He joined Aramco in late 2015 after previously working at Argonne National Laboratory and Delphi.

Pei is actively involved in the organization of several international conferences, serving both Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He was presented with numerous prestigious awards, including the HPCwire Award four years in a row and 2019 ASME Chairman’s Distinguished Service Award. Pei received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from The University of New South Wales.

Speakers:  André Casal Kulzer & Will Northrop

Presentation Slides:
• Decarbonizing Engines using Green Ammonia and e-Fuels
• Potential for eFuels as a Drop-in Replacement for ICE

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Speakers: Sibendu Som & Ron Grover

Presentation Slides:
• Reimagining IC Engine Development Leveraging Next-Generation HPC & AI

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  • How electrification and combustion work together to improve efficiency and emissions
  • Both SI and CI engines will be discussed
  • Speakers: Terry Alger & Charlie Roberts

Presentation Slides:
• Heavy Duty and Non-Road IC Engine Future
• Creating a Sustainable Future for the IC Engine through Electrification

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  • Importance and challenges of decarbonizing the transportation sector
  • Untangling the myths of internal combustion
  • Speaker: Kelly Senecal

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