• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.498-503
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• 2012

It happens that the fuel is not injected when the driver doesn't push the acceleration pedal of vehicle with engine speed higher than 1,500rpm above the mid range of vehicle speed. This is called "fuel-cut function" and almost every modern vehicle is equipped with this function. This is activated frequently on the downhill area of highway and the quantity of vehicle-exhausted $CO_2$ gas can be zero on this area. With this fuel-cut function on the test highway, $CO_2$ gas from passenger car(2,000cc engine volume) can be reduced up to 4%. The fuel-cut function with CRUISE made in company AVL is simulated to find the most effective driving pattern on the downhill area. By simulating with CRUISE software, it is found that the lower limit of vehicle speed for fuel-cut should be raised to improve the fuel economy on the steeper downhill road. The fuel economy can be most economical when fuel-cut driving and reacceleration are completed on the section of downhill road.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TE
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.71-76
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• 2002

Because the driving time is increased under the low speed by rapidly increasing of vehicles, this paper is presented a new ignition control system for improvement the fuel economy, which only some of cylinders are using under the idle status or low speed and preserving the engine rpm. is applicable to effective in fuel economy. An actual hardware was made to prove this new control system. The developed variable cylinder engine concentrated the heat neat the cylinders in idle status or low speed, so there was a problem in re-ignition. It was the reason of a lot of exhaust gas, high fuel consumption and instability of engine revolution. In this paper, in order to solve above problem to show the improvement fuel economy using the new ignition control system and valve opening period at idle status of low speed.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.81-87
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• 2015

LP(low pressure)-EGR system was investigated to evaluate its potential on fuel economy improvement and NOx emission reduction in a diesel engine. A diesel engine was tested for the evaluation of LP-EGR system at both of steady-state and transient test. For a transient test, control logic for LP-EGR valve operation was developed and a NEDC mode test was conducted by using a vehicle status simulation test. The steady-state results showed that LP-EGR system can reduce more NOx emission or fuel consumption comparing to the conventional HP(high pressure)-EGR. From the NEDC mode test, this LP-EGR system showed a possibility to improve fuel economy without a penalty of emissions.

• Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.824-835
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• 2016

Although the number of registered cars in South Korea is above 21million and one family has about 1.07 cars, there is no national standard for automobile reference fuel in South Korea. Reference fuel is the fuel used for certificating vehicle performance, emissions and fuel economy. Now, domestic market fuels are used as reference fuel. However, the quality of domestic market fuel is constantly changing by seasonal and fuel manufacturers. It may effect vehicle performance, emissions and fuel efficiency test result. On this study, market fuel quality was monitored and reference fuel standard(draft) was set by reflecting market fuel monitoring result. Reference fuel standard(draft) was applied to GDI and MPI engine. As a result, the difference of fuel economy between fuels meeting the reference fuel standards(draft) was reduced to 1.1% while the difference of fuel economy between market fuels was 3.8%.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.1085-1091
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• 2002

General vehicle is evaluated by its acceleration, fuel economy, NVH (Noise, Vibration and Harshness) and subjective (such as launching feel) performance. The first step to enhance its performance is to know how much each component affects on the vehicle performance. It is very important to know what is the key factor of the component among many specifications. Hydraulic torque converter can be expressed by means of its performance curve (torque ratio and capacity factor). In this paper, the key factor of torque converter, which affect vehicle performance, are explored by using Taguchi method. Moreover, general sensitivity analysis method is compared with Taguchi's experiment.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2009.12a
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• pp.279-282
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• 2009

Motohawk ECU(Engine Control Unit)에 의한 가솔린기관의 연료분사제어 알고리즘 연구를 통하여 연비를 절감할 수 있는 방안을 연구한다. 실제 차량엔진 ECU는 캘리브레이션 이외의 제어 알고리즘을 변경하여 구현하기가 쉽지 않으므로 상기의 프로토타입 ECU를 활용하여 연료분사제어 로직을 변경해가면서 연료분사와 관련된 여러가지 파라메터의 연구가 가능하다. 또한 프로그래밍은 Matlab과 Simulink로 구현할 수 있어서 최적연비를 얻기 위한 로직의 구현을 실시간으로 할 수 있으며 차량의 특성상 프로그램의 임베딩이 가능하여야 하므로 이러한 목적에 프로토타입 ECU에 의한 로직개발은 많은 장점이 있다. 이러한 ECU를 활용하여 여러 가지 제어 변수에 의한 최적화된 연료분사 로직의 설계 및 미치는 영향을 평가한다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.97-106
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• 2011

Both an optimal design of the engine operating strategy and fuel economy prediction technique for a HEV under the vehicle driving condition are very crucial for the development of vehicle fuel economy performance. Thus, in this study, engine operating characteristics of PRIUS III were analyzed with vehicle running conditions and the correlations between vehicle tractive power and fuel consumption were introduced. As a result, fuel economy performance of PRIUS III with various test modes were predicted and verified. Errors of predicted fuel economy were between -5% and -1%.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.7 no.8
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• pp.123-131
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• 1999

Natural gas is one of the most promising alternative fuels for automotive vehicles. However, natural gas varies in compositional between the originating fields and may be further modified due to processing and additional mixing. These variations are known to affect engine performance and emissions through changes in fuel metering and combustion characteristics. In the present study, the effect of gas compositions on vehicle performance such as fuel economy, driveability and exhaust emissions was examined. Analysis are made of using 3 types of NGVs which were made by automakers and 6 different fuels which are selected in consideration of the variation in fuel composition on the worldwide market. The results may be utilized to develop natural gas natural gas engine in automaekrs and/or to establish the fuel standard in the refueling stations.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2020.08a
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• pp.377-378
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• 2020

본 논문에서는 열화에 따른 하이브리드 차량의 연비 특성을 분석하기 위해 시뮬레이션을 통한 연구를 진행하였다. 전기적 특성 실험 기반으로 배터리 내부 파라미터가 열화에 어떤 영향을 미치는지 분석을 하고 이를 기반으로 하이브리드 차량모델을 통해 시뮬레이션을 진행하였다. 분석 결과를 통해 배터리 열화 상태에 따른 State-Of-Charge (SOC) 및 연비효율 그래프의 변화 추이를 비교하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.689-694
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• 2018

Recently, fuel consumption efficiency has become the most important issue in the vehicle development process due to the problem of environmental pollution. The air flow patterns of the vehicle body line and rear part are the most important elements affecting the fuel consumption efficiency. Especially, the airflow pattern of the vehicle rear part is the most important design factor to be considered in rear spoiler design. In this paper, the control factors affecting the airflow of the rear spoiler are determined, the airflow sensitivity of these control factors are tested and, then, the optimized control factors to reduce the airflow drag force are proposed. The model of optimized control factors is tested and the values of the optimized control factors are changed by analyzing the S/N ratio and mean value. Finally, the new modified model incorporating the optimized control factors is tested in an air flow tunnel and its ability to decrease the air drag and reduce the cost is verified.