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Automotive engineering, along with aerospace engineering and naval architecture, is a branch of vehicle engineering, incorporating elements of mechanical, electrical, electronic, software, and safety engineering as applied to the design, manufacture and operation of motorcycles, automobiles, and trucks and their respective engineering subsystems. It also includes modification of vehicles. Manufacturing domain deals with the creation and assembling the whole parts of automobiles is also included in it. The automotive engineering field is research -intensive and involves direct application of mathematical models and formulas. The study of automotive engineering is to design, develop, fabricate, and test vehicles or vehicle components from the concept stage to production stage. Production, development, and manufacturing are the three major functions in this field.

Method and system for monitoring health state and estimating service life of battery of electric vehicle

The invention provides an electric vehicle battery health state monitoring and service life estimation method and system, and the method comprises the steps: S1, obtaining a real-time data flow of a battery during the operation of a vehicle, extracting the original records of charging and discharging depth, temperature change, internal resistance parameters and capacity data from the real-time data flow, a dynamic monitoring sample is calculated through voltage, current and temperature values collected by a sensor; s3, calculating a capacity attenuation rule through the time sequence feature set, analyzing the decrease amplitude of the capacity after each charge-discharge cycle by adopting an exponential attenuation model, obtaining a long-term operation trend from historical data, and obtaining a dynamic curve of capacity attenuation; and S8, if the confidence interval of the final estimation probability distribution is greater than a preset threshold value, recollecting data with higher frequency for the dynamic monitoring sample, and performing iterative optimization on the life estimation model through the updated sample to obtain an adjusted life detection result.
Owner:GUANGDONG VIP AUTO E-COMMERCE CO LTD

Method and system for diagnosing running state of elevator traction machine in real time based on high-frequency sampling

The invention relates to the technical field of elevator equipment state monitoring and fault diagnosis, and discloses an elevator traction machine running state real-time diagnosis method and system based on high-frequency sampling. According to the method, vibration (larger than or equal to 20 kHz), current (larger than or equal to 10 kHz), sound / sound emission, temperature and rotating speed signals of a traction machine are synchronously collected through a high-frequency multi-mode sensor array; capturing early weak fault transient characteristics; the edge computing unit completes data preprocessing, time synchronization, feature extraction and anomaly detection, and uploads key data to a cloud end through cloud-edge collaboration; the cloud end adopts a working condition self-adaptive strategy and a multi-modal fusion model to carry out deep diagnosis, and outputs fault types, positions and grades; and combining incremental learning and a degradation model to realize health quantification and residual life prediction. Through fusion of high-frequency data capture and an intelligent algorithm, the early fault detection capability, variable working condition adaptability and diagnosis real-time performance of the traction machine are improved, and a solution is provided for predictive maintenance of an elevator.
Owner:XIANGMAI INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY (SHAANXI) CO LTD

New energy automobile battery thermal management method and system based on big data

The invention provides a new energy automobile battery thermal management method and system based on big data. The method comprises the steps that real-time data flow and a historical temperature change curve in a battery pack are collected in real time through a distributed sensor array; inputting a pre-trained time sequence prediction model, outputting a predicted temperature change curve and calculating a real-time temperature rise slope; obtaining an environment comprehensive compensation amount according to the environment temperature and the battery health state, and subtracting the environment comprehensive compensation amount from the basic safety threshold value to obtain a dynamic safety threshold value; determining a dynamic temperature compensation amount through a preset slope grading mechanism, and subtracting the dynamic temperature compensation amount from the dynamic safety threshold to obtain an advanced intervention temperature point; and when the temperature of the battery pack reaches the advanced intervention temperature point, a graded cooling system is started, and cooling power grades are dynamically switched according to the growth interval where the real-time temperature rise slope is located. The battery temperature is accurately controlled, and the energy consumption is remarkably reduced.
Owner:HUNAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING

Control System And Method For A Vehicle System

A system and method generate a trip plan for a trip of a vehicle system along a route. The usage of an engine during the trip is determined based on engine operational parameters, energy storage device operational parameters, and one or more objectives of the trip desired to be achieved. The usage of the energy storage device during the trip is also determined based on the engine operational parameters, the energy storage device operational parameters, and the one or more objective, including when to charge or discharge the energy storage device during the trip.
Owner:TRANSPORTATION IP HOLDINGS LLC

Automobile chassis mechanism simulation optimization method based on digital twinning

The invention relates to the technical field of automobile chassis simulation, and discloses an automobile chassis mechanism simulation optimization method based on digital twinning. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, acquiring a real-time operation data set of an automobile chassis mechanism, including multi-axis acceleration time sequence information, a suspension displacement monitoring sequence and the like, and synchronously transmitting the real-time operation data set to a cloud digital twin platform; constructing a hierarchical digital twin model comprising a suspension subsystem node, a steering mechanism node and a connecting component spatial constraint relation in the platform according to a chassis topological structure; performing multi-physics field feature extraction on the real-time operation data set to generate a chassis multi-physics field data set; executing multi-scale joint simulation calculation based on the model and the data set, and outputting a chassis dynamic response prediction result including fatigue damage distribution of the key connecting piece and the like; and finally, generating an optimization parameter adjustment instruction set according to the result, combining and feeding back to a physical chassis execution mechanism. According to the method, the real-time performance and precision of chassis simulation optimization are realized, and the chassis performance is improved.
Owner:CHANGSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Method, system and equipment for detecting road vehicle speed and vehicle distance based on unmanned aerial vehicle vision

The invention belongs to the technical field of intelligent traffic, and discloses a road vehicle speed and distance detection method, system and device based on unmanned aerial vehicle vision. The method comprises the steps of tracking a vehicle in a to-be-processed video aerially photographed by an unmanned aerial vehicle in real time through an improved YOLOv11 network and a BotSort algorithm to obtain a vehicle trajectory, and converting a vehicle pixel coordinate detected by each frame into a world coordinate in combination with a conversion matrix H of the pixel coordinate and the world coordinate to form a trajectory sequence of the vehicle in the world coordinate system; and for a certain vehicle i, according to the pixel coordinates at the t-th moment and the (t + t)-th moment in several continuous video frames, corresponding world coordinates are obtained through the conversion matrix H, the displacement between two points is calculated according to an Euclidean distance formula, and the average speed of the vehicle in the time period is calculated. According to the invention, efficient, stable and reliable vehicle speed measurement and vehicle distance calculation can be realized.
Owner:NANJING UNIV OF SCI & TECH

Big data-based passenger-roll transport demand prediction and ship intelligent scheduling method and system

The invention relates to a big data-based passenger-roll transport demand prediction and ship intelligent scheduling method and system. The method comprises the steps of obtaining multi-source shipping data for a target area; inputting the multi-source shipping data into the spatial-temporal feature mining model, and predicting passenger rolling transportation demand information of the target area; acquiring ship real-time position, passenger carrying capacity, energy consumption data and port real-time operation state in the target area, and dynamically generating an optimal scheduling scheme by adopting a shipping scheduling model in combination with the predicted passenger transport demand information; the shipping scheduling model is obtained by interacting a decision scheduling model with an intelligent agent corresponding to the passenger roller transportation system and performing iterative training by adopting a reinforcement learning algorithm; and converting the optimal scheduling scheme into visual information, pushing the visual information to operation terminals of the ship and port workers so as to start corresponding shipping scheduling operation, and monitoring the execution effect of the shipping scheduling operation in real time.
Owner:GUANGDONG OCEAN UNIVERSITY

Vehicle with reconfigurable energy storage

A vehicle includes a chassis including a first frame rail and a second frame rail, a tractive element coupled to the chassis, a drive motor configured to drive the tractive element to propel the vehicle, and an energy storage system. The energy storage system includes a first battery module and a second battery module. The energy storage system is selectively reconfigurable between (a) a first configuration in which the first battery module and the second battery module each provide electrical energy to the drive motor and (b) a second configuration in which the first battery module is removed from the vehicle and the second battery module provides electrical energy to the drive motor.
Owner:OSHKOSH CORPORATION

Lithium battery thermal runaway control and safety response strategy system

The invention discloses a lithium battery thermal runaway control and safety response strategy system, which realizes the real-time monitoring and prediction of the internal temperature and voltage state of a battery through thermal-electric coupling modeling and multi-sensing data fusion, and realizes the real-time monitoring and prediction of the internal temperature and voltage state of the battery based on a model prediction control and threshold enhancement strategy. And triggering graded safety response in the early stage of thermal runaway. The system adopts a multi-stage response mechanism including measures of primary early warning, active cooling intervention, emergency power-off fire extinguishing and the like, a gas suppression path and cooling mode switching function is designed, and heat diffusion and spreading and toxic gas harm are effectively suppressed. Compared with a method depending on complex digital twinning or deep learning, the method is simple in structure, rapid in response and low in data dependence, has good system stability and engineering applicability, and can be widely applied to the field of lithium battery safety management of electric vehicle battery packs, energy storage power stations and the like.
Owner:ANHUI ZHONGJI INVESTMENT NEW ENERGY CO LTD

New energy vehicle charging station operation and maintenance management system and method based on Internet of Things

The invention relates to the technical field of vehicle charging station operation and maintenance management, and particularly discloses a new energy vehicle charging station operation and maintenance management system and method based on the Internet of Things, and the method comprises the steps: collecting high-frequency harmonic characteristic data in a charging process in real time, and generating harmonic-impedance spectrum combined monitoring data; extracting dynamic attenuation gradient data of the line characteristic impedance; when the dynamic attenuation gradient data is lower than a preset critical safety threshold value, triggering a charging mode switching instruction; the charging piles are controlled to be switched into a charging mode, the phase difference parameters of the multiple charging piles are dynamically optimized, and a phase difference dynamic adjustment instruction set is generated; and finally, self-adaptive correction of the impedance compensation amount is carried out through the MEC equipment, and by self-adaptive correction of the impedance compensation amount, the system can maintain that the overall impedance is constantly greater than a critical safety threshold value, and power loss and equipment damage caused by impedance mismatch are avoided. The real-time feedback mechanism is helpful for improving the energy efficiency of the system, reducing the operation cost and ensuring the long-term reliability of the charging infrastructure.
Owner:LIANGXIN ELECTRIC CO LTD

Thermal runaway monitoring method of new energy automobile power battery and related equipment

The invention relates to a thermal runaway monitoring method and related equipment for a new energy automobile power battery, and the method comprises the following steps: carrying out the internal temperature monitoring of the new energy automobile power battery, and obtaining the three-dimensional thermal field distribution data; thermal characteristics are analyzed, thermal runaway precursor characteristics are identified, the thermal runaway probability is calculated, and a probability distribution diagram is generated; in combination with the heat spreading prediction model, obtaining heat spreading path prediction data; and determining the out-of-control risk level of the battery according to the data, and generating a corresponding early warning signal, thereby solving the technical problems that the existing monitoring method mostly depends on threshold judgment of a single parameter, and complex thermal field change in the power battery of the new energy automobile is difficult to comprehensively capture.
Owner:SHENZHEN LYNNYL TECH CO LTD

Engine core size

A gas turbine engine for an aircraft is disclosed. The gas turbine engine comprises: a combustor, comprising a combustion chamber and a plurality of fuel spray nozzles configured to inject fuel into the combustion chamber, wherein the plurality of fuel spray nozzles comprises a first subset of fuel spray nozzles and a second subset of fuel spray nozzles, wherein the combustor is operable in a condition in which each of the fuel spray nozzles of the first subset of fuel spray nozzles is supplied with fuel at a greater fuel flow rate than each of the fuel spray nozzles of the second subset of fuel spray nozzles, wherein a ratio of the number of fuel spray nozzles in the first subset of fuel spray nozzles to the number of fuel spray nozzles in the second subset of fuel spray nozzles is in the range of 1:2 to 1:5. A thrust nvPM emissions index ratio is defined as:EImaxTO / FmaxTOEIidle / Fidlewhere: EIidle is the system loss corrected nvPM emissions index in mg / kg of the gas turbine engine if operating at around 7% available thrust for given operating conditions; EImaxTO is the system loss corrected nvPM emissions index in mg / kg of the gas turbine engine if operating at around 100% available thrust for the given operating conditions; FmaxTO is the thrust of the gas turbine engine at around 100% available thrust in kN for the given operating conditions; and Fidle is the thrust of the gas turbine engine at around 7% available thrust in kN for the given operating conditions. The thrust nvPM emissions index ratio is greater than 0.001. The gas turbine engine is configured to provide fuel comprising a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to the plurality of fuel spray nozzles. Also disclosed is a method of operating the gas turbine engine.
Owner:ROLLS ROYCE PLC

New energy electric vehicle battery remote state monitoring system based on Beidou

The invention discloses a Beidou-based new energy electric vehicle battery remote state monitoring system, and relates to the technical field of battery monitoring, and the system comprises a multi-dimensional data flow construction unit; a digital twin layer generation unit; the causal situation map establishing unit is used for generating a joint embedding vector, embedding the symbol constraint rule set into a preset graph neural network architecture, constructing a neural symbol causal discovery engine, directionally adjusting the joint embedding vector in combination with an anti-fact reasoning mechanism, and establishing a causal situation map; the contribution degree of each type of degradation inducement to the service life of the battery is evaluated; and the service life prediction and report generation unit is used for constructing a prediction generator and a verifier, outputting a consensus residual service life prediction value in combination with the real-time vehicle operation data, and generating a battery state report. According to the invention, the comprehensiveness and the real-time performance of data acquisition are improved, and the intelligent level and the application efficiency of remote monitoring and management of the battery are improved.
Owner:SANYA UNIVERSITY +1

Thermal management system and electric vehicle

A thermal management system includes a compressor, a water-cooled condenser, a battery chiller, a valve body assembly, a first water pump, a second water pump, and a third water pump that are disposed in a centralized manner. The thermal management system can separately form a passenger compartment cooling loop, a passenger compartment heating loop, a battery cooling loop, a battery heating loop, and an electrical driver cooling loop, and any one or more of the passenger compartment, the battery, and the electrical driver can be cooled or heated.
Owner:YINWANG INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGIES CO LTD

New energy automobile motor high-frequency vibration and noise active suppression system and method

The invention relates to the technical field of vibration and noise control, discloses a new energy automobile motor high-frequency vibration and noise active suppression system and method, and aims to solve the problems of poor high-frequency vibration and noise suppression effect, real-time performance, adaptive capacity and system cost complexity of an existing new energy automobile motor. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring and preprocessing motor operation state data, extracting high-frequency harmonic characteristics, and generating predicted harmonic characteristics in combination with working condition prediction; and superposing the self-adaptive compensation quantity to a motor voltage instruction, and driving an inverter through pulse width modulation to realize active suppression of high-frequency vibration and noise. The system comprises a data acquisition preprocessing module, a harmonic feature extraction module, a working condition sensing prediction module, a self-adaptive compensation quantity generation module and a pulse width modulation correction module. By the adoption of the technical scheme, efficient, real-time and self-adaptive suppression of high-frequency vibration and noise of the motor can be achieved, the level of the high-frequency vibration and noise is remarkably reduced, the driving comfort is improved, and the complexity and cost of the system are optimized.
Owner:HUBEI MALPASS POWER TECH CO LTD

Gas turbine performance

A gas turbine engine for an aircraft is disclosed. The gas turbine engine comprises: a combustor, comprising a combustion chamber and a plurality of fuel spray nozzles configured to inject fuel into the combustion chamber, wherein the plurality of fuel spray nozzles comprises a first subset of fuel spray nozzles and a second subset of fuel spray nozzles, wherein the combustor is operable in a condition in which each of the fuel spray nozzles of the first subset of fuel spray nozzles is supplied with fuel at a greater fuel flow rate than each of the fuel spray nozzles of the second subset of fuel spray nozzles, wherein a ratio of the number of fuel spray nozzles in the first subset of fuel spray nozzles to the number of fuel spray nozzles in the second subset of fuel spray nozzles is in the range of 1:3 to 1:6. A MTO nvPM emissions index ratio is defined as:EImaxTO,SAFEImaxTO,FFwhere: EImaxTO,SAF is the system loss corrected nvPM emissions index in mg / kg of the gas turbine engine when operating at around 100% available thrust for given operating conditions if a fuel provided to the plurality of fuel spray nozzles comprises a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF); and EImaxTO,FF is the system loss corrected nvPM emissions index in mg / kg of the gas turbine engine when operating at around 100% available thrust for the given operating conditions if a fuel provided to the plurality of fuel spray nozzles is a fossil-based hydrocarbon fuel. The MTO nvPM emissions index ratio of the gas turbine engine is less than 1. The gas turbine engine is configured to provide fuel comprising a SAF to the plurality of fuel spray nozzles. Also disclosed are methods of operating the gas turbine engine.
Owner:ROLLS ROYCE PLC

Cable tunnel fire risk feature identification system and identification method

The invention discloses a cable tunnel fire risk feature identification system and identification method, and belongs to the technical field of cable tunnel safety monitoring. The whole stage of a fire is covered through multi-class cooperative detection, the target identification precision and scene adaptability are greatly improved, and the safety of the cable tunnel is improved. According to the whole system, a flame and smoke detection unit and a flame / smoke special detection unit are innovatively added to a detection engine module, an original heat source detection unit and an original human body detection unit are combined, a heat source-flame-smoke-human body four-category collaborative detection framework is formed, high-precision recognition is achieved on the basis of a YOLO model framework, and the detection efficiency is improved. Compared with the problems that a traditional system is high in single target detection omission ratio and cannot cover the whole stage of smoldering-initial open fire-violent combustion of a fire, the system has the advantages that the recognition rate of early flame and weak smoke is increased, the false alarm rate is greatly reduced, meanwhile, a heat source of operation and maintenance personnel is prevented from being misjudged as a fire hazard through human body detection, and the safety of the fire hazard is improved. And cable monitoring and personnel safety protection are both considered.
Owner:TIANJIN FIRE SCI & TECH RES INST OF MEM

Aircraft emissions

A gas turbine engine for an aircraft. The gas turbine engine comprising: a combustor, comprising a combustion chamber and a plurality of fuel spray nozzles configured to inject fuel into the combustion chamber, wherein the plurality of fuel spray nozzles comprises a first subset of fuel spray nozzles and a second subset of fuel spray nozzles, wherein the combustor is operable in a condition in which each of the fuel spray nozzles of the first subset of fuel spray nozzles is supplied with fuel at a greater fuel flow rate than each of the fuel spray nozzles of the second subset of fuel spray nozzles, wherein a ratio of the number of fuel spray nozzles in the first subset of fuel spray nozzles to the number of fuel spray nozzles in the second subset of fuel spray nozzles is in the range of 1:2 to 1:5. An MTO nvPM emissions index ratio-modified fuel flow is defined as:EImaxTO,SAFEImaxTO,FF×Wf,maxTOwhere: EImaxTO,SAF is the system loss corrected nvPM emissions index in mg / kg of the gas turbine engine when operating at around 100% available thrust for given operating conditions if a fuel provided to the plurality of fuel spray nozzles comprises a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF); EImaxTO,FF is the system loss corrected nvPM emissions index in mg / kg of the gas turbine engine when operating at around 100% available thrust for the given operating conditions if a fuel provided to the plurality of fuel spray nozzles is a fossil-based hydrocarbon fuel; and Wf,maxTO is the mass flow rate of fuel provided to the plurality of fuel spray nozzles in kg / s when the gas turbine engine is operating at around 100% available thrust for the given operating conditions. The MTO nvPM emissions index ratio-modified fuel flow of the gas turbine engine in kg / s is less than 2. The gas turbine engine is configured to provide fuel comprising a SAF to the plurality of fuel spray nozzles. Also disclosed is a method of operating the gas turbine engine.
Owner:ROLLS ROYCE PLC

Gas turbine emissions

A gas turbine engine includes a combustor with a combustion chamber and fuel spray nozzles to inject fuel into the combustion chamber. The nozzles include a first and second subset. Each of the nozzles of the first subset is supplied with fuel at a greater rate than each of the second subset. A ratio of nozzles in the first subset to nozzles in the second subset from 1:3 to 1:6. A fuel-flow nvPM emissions index ratio isEIidle×Wf,idleRImaxTO×Wf,maxTO.EIidle and EImaxTO are the system loss corrected nvPM emissions index in mg / kg operating at around 7% and 100% available thrust for the given operating conditions, respectively. Wf,idle and Wf,maxTO are the rate of fuel flow to the fuel spray nozzles in kg / s at around 7% and 100% available thrust for the given operating conditions, respectively. The fuel-flow nvPM emissions index ratio of the gas turbine engine is less than 0.3.
Owner:ROLLS ROYCE PLC

Active air flap for vehicles

Disclosed herein is an active air flap for vehicles, which includes a flap part configured to open and close an outside air inlet of a grill located at a front of a vehicle through a plurality of paths, a drive unit configured to provide a driving force to the flap part, and a link unit configured to transmit the driving force of the drive unit to the flap part, wherein the link unit includes a loader shaft configured to rotate in conjunction with an actuator shaft of the drive unit, a link bar having one end connected to both ends of the loader shaft in a longitudinal direction, and the other end located at both ends of the flap part, and a link panel configured to connect the other end of the link bar and both ends of the flap part.
Owner:HYUNDAI MOBIS CO LTD

Fuel spray nozzles

A gas turbine engine includes: a rich burn, quick quench, lean burn combustor having a number of fuel spray nozzles in the range 14-22 or a number of fuel spray nozzles per unit engine core size in the range 2 to 6. An nvPM emissions index ratio is defined as:EIidle×Wf,idleEImaxTO×Wf,maxTOwhere: EIidle and EImaxTO are respectively the nvPM emissions index in mg / kg of gas turbine engine if operating at around 7% or 100% available thrust for given operating conditions; Wf,idle and Wf,maxTO are respectively the rate of fuel flow to fuel spray nozzles in kg / s at around 7% or 100% available thrust for given operating conditions. The fuel-flow nvPM emissions index ratio is less than 0.08. The gas turbine engine is configured to provide fuel including sustainable aviation fuel to fuel spray nozzles. Also disclosed is a method of operating the gas turbine engine.
Owner:ROLLS ROYCE PLC

Intelligent grading early warning method for thermal runaway of battery

The invention relates to a battery thermal runaway intelligent grading early warning method, and relates to the technical field of battery thermal runaway early warning, and the method comprises the steps: loading a pre-control parameter and an environment temperature of a target cell, and constructing a cell dynamic portrait; obtaining a first battery cell temperature extreme value through a battery cell temperature extreme value prediction model; when the first battery cell temperature extreme value is smaller than the thermal runaway temperature threshold value, loading the abnormal compression time sequence information and the cycle index of the target battery cell, and constructing a battery cell static portrait; when the abnormal compression time sequence information is not empty, or / and the cycle index is greater than a cycle index threshold value, retrieving a sample set of the battery cells of the same model; counting the proportion of the thermal runaway samples in the same type of battery cell sample set, and setting the proportion as a target battery cell thermal runaway risk coefficient; and executing the grading early warning strategy. The problems that thermal runaway is difficult to accurately predict, early warning lags and potential safety hazards exist due to the fact that traditional battery thermal runaway management depends on a battery pack temperature sensor to collect temperature and early warning is executed only when the temperature reaches a preset value are solved.
Owner:HANGZHOU XILI INTELLIGENT TECH CO LTD

Available thrust

A gas turbine engine for an aircraft. The gas turbine engine comprising: a rich burn, quick quench, lean burn (RQL) combustor having a number of fuel spray nozzles in the range of 14-22 or a number of fuel spray nozzles per unit engine core size in the range 2 to 6. An MTO nvPM emissions index ratio is defined as:EImaxTO,SAFEImaxTO,FFwhere: EImaxTO,SAF is the system loss corrected nvPM emissions index in mg / kg of the gas turbine engine when operating at around 100% available thrust for given operating conditions if a fuel provided to the fuel spray nozzles comprises a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF); and EImaxTO,FF is the system loss corrected nvPM emissions index in mg / kg of the gas turbine engine when operating at around 100% available thrust for the given operating conditions if a fuel provided to the fuel spray nozzles is a fossil-based hydrocarbon fuel. The MTO nvPM emissions index ratio of the gas turbine engine is less than 1. The gas turbine engine is configured to provide fuel comprising a SAF to the fuel spray nozzles. Also disclosed is a method of operating a gas turbine engine.
Owner:ROLLS ROYCE PLC

Gas turbine performance

A gas turbine engine for an aircraft is disclosed. The gas turbine engine comprises: a combustor, comprising a combustion chamber and a plurality of fuel spray nozzles configured to inject fuel into the combustion chamber, wherein the plurality of fuel spray nozzles comprises a first subset of fuel spray nozzles and a second subset of fuel spray nozzles, wherein the combustor is operable in a condition in which each of the fuel spray nozzles of the first subset of fuel spray nozzles is supplied with fuel at a greater fuel flow rate than each of the fuel spray nozzles of the second subset of fuel spray nozzles, wherein a ratio of the number of fuel spray nozzles in the first subset of fuel spray nozzles to the number of fuel spray nozzles in the second subset of fuel spray nozzles is in the range of 1:3 to 1:6. A MTO nvPM emissions index ratio is defined as:EImaxTO,SAFEImaxTO,FFwhere: EImaxTO,SAF is the nvPM emissions index in mg / kg of the gas turbine engine when operating at around 100% available thrust for given operating conditions if a fuel provided to the plurality of fuel spray nozzles comprises a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF); and EImaxTO,FF is the nvPM emissions index in mg / kg of the gas turbine engine when operating at around 100% available thrust for the given operating conditions if a fuel provided to the plurality of fuel spray nozzles is a fossil-based hydrocarbon fuel. The MTO nvPM emissions index ratio of the gas turbine engine is less than 1. The gas turbine engine is configured to provide fuel comprising a SAF to the plurality of fuel spray nozzles. Also disclosed are methods of operating the gas turbine engine.
Owner:ROLLS ROYCE PLC

Modular, multi-directional, battery-integrated smart electric vehicle charging station

A modular, multi-directional, smart electric vehicle (EV) charging station. In an embodiment, the EV charging station has a field-serviceable, replaceable modular construction, a fully multi-directional power routing architecture, buffered EV-to-grid and EV-to-EV charging, multi-EV charging capability, and the ability to integrate multiple modular charging stations into a networked local and / or wide-area charging system.
Owner:ELECTRICFISH ENERGY INC

Aviation fuel

A gas turbine engine includes: a rich burn, quick quench, lean burn combustor having a number of fuel spray nozzles in range of 14-22 or a number of fuel spray nozzles per unit engine core size in range 2 to 6. An MTO nvPM emissions index ratio is:EImaxTO,SAFEImaxTO,FF×Wf,maxTOwhere: EImaxTO,SAF and EImaxTO,FF are respectively the nvPM emissions index in mg / kg when operating around 100% available thrust for given operating conditions if fuel provided to fuel spray nozzles includes either sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) or fossil-based hydrocarbon fuel; Wf,maxTO is mass flow rate of fuel provided to fuel spray nozzles in kg / s when gas turbine engine is operating at around 100% available thrust for given operating conditions. MTO nvPM emissions index is less than 2. The gas turbine engine is configured to provide fuel including SAF to fuel spray nozzles. Also disclosed is method of operating gas turbine engine.
Owner:ROLLS ROYCE PLC

Heat pump system for a vehicle

A heat pump system for a vehicle may efficiently adjust the temperature of heating elements by using a chiller where a refrigerant and a coolant exchange heat. At the same time, the heat pump system may efficiently perform cooling and heating of a rear seat by using a rear heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) module provided with a heat-exchanger.
Owner:HYUNDAI MOTOR CO LTD +1

Method and system for installing wiring harness into vehicle

A method for installing a wiring harness into a vehicle including coupling at least one module and the wiring harness to a fixture to form a structure, moving the structure to the vehicle, decoupling the module and the wiring harness from the fixture, coupling the module and the wiring harness to the vehicle, and removing the fixture from the vehicle.
Owner:FORD GLOBAL TECH LLC

Intelligent fuel gas valve with point type laser methane sensor

The invention discloses a fuel gas intelligent valve with point type laser methane sensors, and relates to the field of fuel gas intelligent valves, and the fuel gas intelligent valve comprises an equipment installation module which is used for installing three point type laser methane sensors and collecting interface methane concentration values; the data acquisition module is used for acquiring pipeline parameters and environment parameter data inside and outside the interface; the risk assessment module is used for calculating the methane concentration change rate according to the methane concentration value and assessing whether gas leakage exists at each interface; the fuel gas leakage positioning module is used for constructing a fuel gas leakage positioning model based on a neural network and acquiring the probability of the fuel gas leakage risk at each interface; the valve self-adjusting module is used for determining whether the gas leakage point is a leakage point or not according to the gas leakage risk probability; and the historical data analysis module is used for calculating the precision ratio, the recall rate and the F1-Score value by using the historical data and the field actual measurement result. The leakage risk of the gas pipeline is effectively diagnosed and positioned, and the opening degree of the valve is intelligently controlled.
Owner:FATO GAS EQUIP (HEBEI) LTD

Sensing system for autonomous mobile vehicle

An autonomous vehicle system includes a vehicle including a base assembly having a front surface, a rear surface opposite the front surface, and side surfaces extending between the front surface and the rear surface. A sensor system is coupled to the base assembly and configured to detect one or more objects located in an area near the vehicle. The sensor system includes a first sensor oriented parallel with at least one of the front surface, the rear surface, or the side surfaces, and a second sensor oriented non-parallel with the front surface, the rear surface, and the side surfaces. A control system is configured to receive a communication regarding the detection of the one or more objects from the sensor system and generate one or more controls for at least one of the base assembly or one or more tractive elements.
Owner:OSHKOSH CORPORATION