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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is turning to a company whose home base is as old-school Rust Belt as one can get, but the company's specialty's undeniably new-school technology. The EPA has struck a deal with Pittsburgh-based ANSYS to model simulations of internal combustion engines. And while the models will be theoretical, the EPA is shooting for some very real results.

ANSYS, which employs more than 2,700 people and was founded in 1970, will model the inside of engines, with everything from chamber geometries to valve timing to fuel composition to fuel-injection methods being examined in order to find ways to eke out better fuel economy and lower greenhouse-gas emissions. The EPA will ultimately build a test engine based on the information gleaned from the three-dimensional simulation of the in-cylinder combustion process.

The process may not seem as sexy as battery-electric or hydrogen fuel-cell technology or even plug-in hybrid drivetrains. Still, the is EPA looking for improvements in light-duty vehicle engines to help cut fleetwide greenhouse gases in half between 2010 and 2025. And with internal combustion engines expecting to continue to account for the vast majority of car engines for the foreseeable future, these simulations may be valuable indeed. Check out ANSYS's press release below.Continue reading EPA ready to go virtual with ANSYS to create cleaner engines

EPA ready to go virtual with ANSYS to create cleaner engines originally appeared on AutoblogGreen on Mon, 14 Jul 2014 16:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.



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