73096 - Internal Combustion Engine Laboratory

Learning outcomes

The student learns how an engine test room works, starting from the characteristics of the main components (brake or dynamo/ brake, management system, engine characteristics) and the different ways of using the engine test bench, from the completely manual one to an automated test management system.

Course contents

Test of the engine on the bench: objectives, sensed quantities and their use. Instrumentation used in the test cell. Components for carrying out tests. Bench test. Data analysis.

Readings/Bibliography

Engine testing : the design, building, modification and use of powertrain test facilities, Michael Plint and Anthony Martyr, Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford 2012.

Powertrain instrumentation and test systems : development - hybridization - electrification / Michael Paulweber, Klaus Lebert
Wiesbaden : Springer, 2015

Teaching methods

The course uses three teaching tools:

• Lectures (illustration of Power Point material: the presentations are accessible through the platform for sharing the teaching material)
• Laboratory visits (description of plants, instruments and performance of an engine test)
• Computer lab (detailed description of procedures in Matlab for the analysis of experimental data)
  

In view of the types of activities and the adopted teaching methods, the attendance of this training activity requires that all the students take Modules 1 and 2 in e-learning mode [https://www.unibo.it/it/servizi-e-opportunita/salute-e-assistenza/salute-e-sicurezza/sicurezza-e-salute-nei-luoghi-di-studio-e-tirocinio] and to participate the Module 3 of the specific training on the safety and health in the workplace. The directions on the dates and mode of the attendance of Module 3 can be found in the appropriate section of the course of study website.

Assessment methods

The exam will involve an oral test, during which you will still be required to report some schematics/diagrams/equations on paper.

Two questions will be proposed, the first on the theory covered in the first half of the course and the second on the Matlab and Simulink exercises. In general, the types of questions may be as follows:

• State/demonstrate equations, report diagrams related to the main quantities related to the operation of sensors and machines present in an engine test room, functional diagrams of machines
• Explain the structure of a Matlab/Simulink code part, describe output images of a code
  
  

However, no topics, equations, or diagrams not discussed in the lectures will be asked, and the candidate will be eligible if both questions are sufficient.

Teaching tools

PowerPoint presentations and data to be analyzed in the Matlab environment, through shared procedures: all the material is available, after the registration to the distribution list, on the platform for sharing the teaching material.

Office hours

See the website of Alessandro Brusa