Main aims
- Dissemination of research results relative to the reduction of pollutants to academicians and researchers
- Safety of Bio-Diesel engine by detecting air leakage, fuel leakage, reducing dioxide of Nitrogen and the effects of CO2 of greenhouses.
- Reduction of fuel consumption by developing a new kind of control but this consumption depends also of the behavior of the drivers.
- Opportunity to exchange skills to a wide range of general public, industrials and scientific community
Main objectives:
- The new biodiesel engine is based on a new kind of control of two air paths valves: EGR (Exhaust Gas Recirculation) and VGT (Valve Geometry Turbocharged) which are both controlled in low temperature combustion in order to reduce the consumption and the bad emissions and smoke, soot.
- Implementation of new virtual sensors in order to estimate some data such as the intake manifold mass flow and the exhaust manifold mass flow.
- Improvement of the existing test bench by adding some special cards in order to be used easily firstly by our searchers and to be presented to industrials.
- The test bench has been not yet used by industrials
- Development of virtual simulator in association with academicals Software Matlab has been used and we have reproduced the behavior of our test bench through this software. The partners have simulated different scenarios (normal operation and faulty operation) to control the engine.

The work of the partnership was monitored through the project management meetings and in each meeting, outcomes were put to partners. Each partner worked to their own communication strategy to promote the project and the benefits of SCODECE to local people and visitors in their institution. The lead partner also has pointed the points that could be improved and the lessons learnt. It is important to respect the objectives and the aims for each partner in their region. The strategy communication plan has been approved by all partners and consists to: -creation of general public website-technical website for scientific- transfer knowledge and skills- travelling exhibitions produced in each region-creation of internal conferences-Active technical data base for PhD students

Results

- Reduction of pollutants (NOx, C02) and noises by combing bio-fuel with advanced control on Low Temperature Combustion Engine instead of high temperature Diesel conventional engine

- Development of theoretical engine models and validation by the virtual software and tesbed

- Safe Diesel engine by advanced diagnosis in order to detect air path and fuel leakages, blocked valves, etc…

- Contribution to the cross-border region in Research and Innovation of new solutions for clean transportation

- Direct deliverables of the activities which have been achieved as scheduled in our project.

The SCODECE project is intended for advanced control applied to combustion engine:

- SME's working for the automotive and transportation sectors. The expected outputs of this project will benefit the automotive sector in the first instance and will be transferable to other topics of transport, automation, manufacturer companies

- SME for transportation as NOTRE Nord Pas de Calais-Picardie.

- SME for research-development centres such as CRITT M2A.

- Environment and sustainable development institutions (LMCU, AMDEM)

- SME for the UK part (Lemon ...)

- Software providers (Mathworks, LMS …)



But also this project profits to:

- Our Belgium partner Technord (Automation and Industrial informatics)

- Centre of research (LAGIS, L2EP, MIS, etc..)

The direct beneficiaries from this work were firstly all partners involved in the project. The Belgium company at cross-border level: the engine manufacturers or engine management system suppliers who will be able to use the information to aid the development of control systems of diesel engine with variable valve timing (VVT) and the design of IC engine with bio-diesel and low temperature combustion (LTC). The successful mass production of the new engines which will be available for diesel LTC and with bio-diesel will, in turn, provide significant environment benefit to the community at large due to improved emissions. Control technology manufactures and control products suppliers to vehicle industry will achieve information on the requirement of bio-diesel and LTC combustion to improved control methods. -at academician level: students, teachers, searchers sensitive to new technologies of interne combustion engines.

Outcomes

• High level research activities

– Expected results disseminated to students and industrials

– Techniques developed taught at engineering level

– Introducing a number of new innovative aspects

– Best practice

• Organization of workshops (own or hosted)

• Improving demonstrators

Outcomes of each territory

• In Nord Pas de Calais : participation in “Ecole Doctorale”, “Groupement d’Intérêt Scientifique », Presentation of results to industrials of « Société des Ingénieurs de l’Automobile », Presentation of activities of the project to industrials of the Region in « Innovembre Event », etc….

• In Sussex : Communication activities- Introducing the topics and activities => broader community-Articles, papers, …

• In Picardie : Technical day in Automation with European partners ‘:Germany, Poland and Estonia- Research conference –Presentation of SCODECE’s results on technical days “ Control, Vehicle and Energy’- Research and Innovation with the support of Picardie Region- Organization of some events in the Region: Research days (each year), Days of Automatic and Automotive systems (60 participants), etc…

Project proposes a demonstrator based on technology of Bio-Diesel safe engine at low temperature combustion and high efficiency validating solutions to reduce polluting emissions and fuel consumption. The project provides therefore an opportunity to develop by cross-border cooperation aLTC bio-Diesel engine technology. The combination of areas of expertise of the partners is not found only in either country, France or England. It is necessary to form a partnership between the three institutions HEI, UPJV and UoS to obtain all the skills necessary for the successful execution of the project. If the project were not developed at a cross-border level some essential expertise would be absent. The three partners who have different expertise and strengths for developing the control system used on vehicles will share their skills to finalise a new technology. The project will contribute to the development of a major European research in this area and can support R&D for cross-border SME's.

Synergy with the I-mocca 2 seas programme leaded by KU Leven (Ghent)

• Synergy with the project Interreg IV B: Intrude leaded by university of Lille 1

• With some European Universities through ERASMUS Programme

-University of Valladolid

- University of Polytechnic of Bucharest

- HTW Berlin ...)

-University of Greenwhich,

-the competiveness cluster i-trans (Regional)

-the competiveness cluster MOVEO (Regional)

- the Society: SIA (Societé des Ingénieurs de l ’Automobile)

We should learn from one's mistakes and not repeat them in future. During the preparation of the project, we had under estimated the preparation work for all partners, we had not shared costs of the closing conference that have been taking account by the partner leader , the timesheets should be prepared monthly and not to wait the last minute to fulfil them.
What is important is the coordination of the project between partners and to follow the recommendations of the JTS. It is very clear that for academicians it is the best way to share our research results and it is still the best way we know of in developing powerful researchers in our university.
In summary, it is the best investment for us to become a successful researcher sharing practice and theory and also to be near the needs of industrials.

Our project will have a positive impact in the development of our research
- The projects results will be disseminate by all partners in our region and through the world by scientific publications , website. A reflexion to develop a patent is in discussion with partner and the French society SATT
- Implication of 2 partners in the I-mosyde cluster (LP, PP2) to disseminate the results of SCODECE.

The partner continue to work in the project

-The PP2 will organize the Defence Thesis of Ines Abidi on 5th May and LP and PP3 are jury members of this thesis

-Continuation to publish common articles in international conferences which will be held in Europe( MED 2014-Palermo 25-27Th June 2014, IEEE MSC 2014 (Nice, 8th-10th October 2014)

-Continuation to publish journal articles in European Journals (Control Engineering Practice, International Journal of applied, Mathematics and Computing science, etc…)

- Continuation to work with the Ukrainian Postdoc Olena Kuzmych

-Continuation to work with Issam Djemili which is now project manager in a Belgium company

-One possibility to develop a patent in advanced control for combustion engines with the help of the company SATT Nord

- Input to cluster I-mosyde (from 01/01/2014) with the participation of LP and PP3
- Horizon 2020: results of advanced control and diagnosis can be proposed for
- Regional project (ARCIR, LP) MODIS-H2 (01/06/2014), results of SCODECE on advanced control applied to multi-sources renewable energies
- To propose another project with partners and other partners (Universities, Industrials, and Organizations) by using Hybrid engines (multi sources energies) and could be proposed for Interreg VA 2 Seas.