At the Piston Engine Laboratory, we analyse compressors and engine processes in connection with process-improving measures, alternative renewable fuels and combustion processes.
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At the FHNW Piston Engine Laboratory, we support you in your research activities and industrial services with our compressors and engine test rigs. These include:
Sensor testing and development (pressure measurement, heat flux, …)
Injection evaluation: injection rate, concepts, …
Combustion process investigation (vs. simulation)
In cylinder emission/soot reduction (EGR/WFE)
Alternative fuel application
Additive testing
Exhaust gas emission measurements
Get in touch with us
For more information or to discuss a collaboration, please contact Kai Herrmann.
Infrastructure
Extensively instrumented and fully balanceable SCE and full engine test rigs
Mercedes Benz OM 501
BMW Rotax F650
Hatz 1D90
SLM 1-HD-26
Burckhardt Compression Laby
mCHP
Data acquisition and evaluation
State-of-the-art signal acquisition and analysis platforms
Emission measuring devices based on measuring principles such as FTIR, FID, NDIR, CLD etc.
1/5
Air-cooled single-cylinder Hatz 1D90 engine from Hatz Diesel with highly flexible intake air conditioning, converted to a common-rail injection system.
2/5
Type 1 HD26 single-cylinder diesel engine from Schweizerische Lokomotivenfabrik (SLM, built in 1966) converted to a common-rail injection system.
5/5
BMW F 650 GS single-cylinder four-stroke engine with highly flexible intake air conditioning. The modified cylinder head offers up to 8 inlets for the simultaneous recording of cylinder pressure at different positions in the combustion chamber.
The Piston Engine Laboratory is part of the FHNW Institute of Thermal and Fluid Engineering
