About the Course
The University of California at Riverside’s (UCR’s) Bourns College of Engineering – Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT) Emissions and Fuels Research (EFR) group conducts research in a wide range of areas including emissions and activity from a wide range of mobile sources, the performance of advanced technology vehicles, particle research, and fuels research. This includes research of both conventional and advanced technology light-duty vehicles (LDVs), heavy-duty diesel vehicles (HDDVs), and off-road engines, as well as larger mobile sources such as marine vessels and locomotives. The scope of this research has significant implications for regulatory agencies, industry and engine and vehicle manufacturers, fuel producers and providers, and others stakeholders in the broader area of environmental policy. This course is a beginning level training course designed around research topics and underlining theoretical background behind research in the emissions and fuels area that would be of value to regulators, industry representatives, and environmental stakeholders.
- Participants will learn about the environmental impacts of emissions on air quality and global warming. They will learn about the basis for and structure of emissions regulations for regional, national, and international levels.
- Participants will learn the fundamentals of combustion and how emissions form, and what conditions lead to higher emissions, and the engine and exhaust aftertreatment technologies have developed over the years to control those emissions.
- Participants will learn emissions measurement fundamentals, including Measurement equipment (including emissions analyzers, Conventional Dynamometer CVS Emissions Measurements, and Portable Emissions Measurement Systems [PEMS]) and methodologies, and the associated fundamental theory and calculations of emissions measurements.