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Rankine-cycleWasteHeatRecovery (WHR)systems are promising solutions to reduce fuel consumption for trucks. Due to coupling between engine andWHR system, control of these complex systems is challenging. This study presents an integrated energy and emission management strategy for an Euro-VI Diesel engine withWHRsystem. This Integrated Powertrain Control (IPC) strategy optimizes the CO2-NOx trade-off by minimizing online the operational costs associated with fuel and AdBlue consumption. Contrary to other control studies, the proposed control strategy optimizes overall engine-aftertreatment-WHR systemperformance and dealswith emission constraints. Fromsimulations, the potential of this IPC strategy is demonstrated over a World Harmonized Transient Cycle (WHTC) using a highfidelity simulationmodel. These results are compared with a state-of-the-art baseline engine control strategy. By applying the IPC strategy, an additional 2.6%CO2 reduction is achieved compare to the baseline strategy, while meeting the tailpipeNOx emission limit. In addition, the proposed low-levelWHR controller is shown to deal with the cold start challenges.

The potential of a cost-based optimization method is experimentally demonstrated on a Euro-VI heavy-duty diesel engine. Based on the actual engine-aftertreatment state, this model-based Integrated Emission Management (IEM) strategy minimizes operational (fuel and AdBlue) costs within emission constraints by real-time computation of optimal air management set points. This work discusses the control design in detail. By EGR-SCR balancing, fuel consumption and operational costs are reduced by 2.1% and 1.5%, respectively, compared to the baseline strategy over the hot World Harmonized Transient Cycle. Due to its adaptation characteristics, the IEM strategy is robust for varying conditions during real-world operation.

This study presents an integrated energy and emission management strategy which minimizes the operational costs over the study test cycle. This Integrated Powertrain Control (IPC) strategy deals with high system complexity and exploits the synergy between engine-aftertreatment systems by following a model-based approach. The potential of this integrated approach is demonstrated for a new application: an Euro-VI diesel engine with Waste Heat Recovery system. Main contribution of this work is to include the emission constraints in the control design for this application. In a simulation study, the performance of the presented IPC strategy is compared with a baseline engine control strategy over the World Harmonized Transient Cycle. It is shown that the IPC strategy explicitly deals with the NOx tailpipe emission target and simultaneously reduces CO2 emissions by 2.8% compared to the baseline strategy.

This study presents an integrated energy and emission management strategy for an Euro-VI diesel engine with Waste Heat Recovery (WHR) system. This Integrated Powertrain Control (IPC) strategy optimizes the CO2-NOx trade-off by minimizing the operational costs associated with fuel and AdBlue consumption. The main contribution of this work is that the effect of tailpipe emissions and WHR dynamics are included in the control design. In a simulation study, the potential of this strategy is demonstrated over a World Harmonized Transient Cycle. These results are compared with a baseline engine control strategy. This study shows that slow WHR dynamics strongly affect the engine performance: neglecting these dynamics in the control design leads to unacceptable high tailpipe NOx emissions. By applying the IPC strategy, an additional 2.8% CO2 reduction is achieved within the NOx emission limit compared to the baseline strategy.

This study presents an integrated energy and emission management strategy for a Euro-VI diesel engine with Waste Heat Recovery (WHR) system. This Integrated Powertrain Control (IPC) strategy optimizes the CO 2 - NO x trade-off by minimizing the operational costs associated with fuel and AdBlue consumption, while satisfying tailpipe emission constraints. The main contribution of this work is that the optimal solution is determined numerically for a given cycle and is compared with a real-time implementable strategy. Also, the WHR dynamics are explicitly included in the control design. In a simulation study, the potential of this IPC strategy is demonstrated over the World Harmonized Transient Cycle. It is shown that the real-time strategy can be applied with negligible loss of optimality. Using IPC, an additional 3.5 % CO 2 reduction is achieved, while complying with the NO x emission limit, when compared to a baseline strategy.