Development Of innovative Low pollutant, low noise, low fuel Consumption two-spark ignition Engines for future vehicles for individual urban mobility

Project Information

DOLCE

Grant agreement ID: BRPR970447

Project closed

Start date 1 July 1997

End date 31 March 2000

Funded under

• Specific research and technological development programme in the field of industrial and materials technologies, 1994-1998

Total cost No data

EU contribution No data

Coordinated by

PIAGGIO & C S.P.A.
Italy

Objective

The individual urban mobility strategy of the years 2000 requires transportation means with high safety systems and low environmental impact. For the utilization in cities with high population density these transportation means will be constituted by two-and-three-wheel vehicles.
The main purpose of this research is to develop an innovative engine for such vehicles socially acceptable and characterized by very low pollutant gas and noise emitted by the exhaust and maximum fuel energy utilization (lower carbon dioxide production); Another aim of this project is to generate information for a parallel study on behalf of the European Commission (Pollution Working Group), financed by the Motorcycles Industry in order to define realistic emission standards for the next years.
The core of the system is a new concept, air assisted, direct fuel injection, two-stroke engine around which the best of
engine/transmission technologies shall be implemented. In fact, in this project the validation and tuning of electronic engine control system for two-stroke engine will be carried out with oil consumption reduction devices and a catalytic system. The new direct injected two-stroke engine presents new lubrication requirements in terms of lubricity, detergency and other aspects such as the compatibility with catalyst.
They will require appropriate lubricants and oxidation catalyst formulations which will have to be developed. The objectives of the proposed programme is to work on these new lubrication requirements with the aim of significantly reducing the oil consumption and of developing compatible new oxidation catalyst technology and precious metal formulations specifically adapted for ultra low emissions, air assisted, direct fuel injection, two-stroke engines.
The engine components structure will be also optimized for low and good noise (sound insulated shielding), low vibration and harshness (NVH) and low weight.

Fields of science

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.

• engineering and technology › mechanical engineering › tribology › lubrication
• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › electronic engineering › control systems
• natural sciences › chemical sciences › electrochemistry › electrolysis
• natural sciences › chemical sciences › catalysis
• engineering and technology › environmental engineering › energy and fuels

Programme(s)

• FP4-BRITE/EURAM 3 - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of industrial and materials technologies, 1994-1998

Topic(s)

• 0302 - Transports

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

PIAGGIO & C S.P.A.

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Viale Rinaldo Piaggio 25 ; 56025 PONTEDERA ; Italy
• Total cost: No data

Participants (4)

INSTITUT FRANCAIS DU PETROLE

France

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 1&4,Avenue de Bois PrTau 1&4 ; 92852 RUEIL MALMAISON
• Total cost: No data

Magneti Marelli SpA

Italy

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Via del Timavo 33 ; 40134 Bologna
• Total cost: No data

Rosi S.A.

France

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 165,Rue du 1er Mai ; 92000 Nanterre
• Total cost: No data

Technische Universität Graz

Austria

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 25,Inffeldgasse ; 8010 Graz
• Total cost: No data