Sustainable mobility: technical and environmental challenges for the automotive sector (IFP School)

Sustainable mobility: technical and environmental challenges for the automotive sector (IFP School)
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Sustainable mobility: technical and environmental challenges for the automotive sector (IFP School)
The subject will be addressed from many different perspectives such as the economic context and regulations, fuel specifications and production in the refining industry, engines and post-treatment systems design, vehicles hybridization, biofuels, mobility of tomorrow. The evaluation will include a “serious game” designed as a video game: you will optimize the fuel production in a refinery and also the engine settings to reduce fuel consumption and pollutant emissions.

After successfully completing this course, participants will be able to:

- Identify the different energies sources, the importance of oil and how it is used in transport and its consequences regarding the environment

- Explain the operation of a 4-stroke engine

- Explain the specifications of gasoline and diesel and the objectives of each unit during the crude refining process

- Explain the engine’s efficiency, the power and the torque

- Explain the formation of pollutant emissions, identify the techniques used to reduce emissions and consumption and finally identify the different after treatment systems

- List the pros and the cons of hybrids and explain how they work; list the various alternative fuels used, and finally describe possible solutions for reducing dependency on petroleum products –e.g. car sharing or ecodriving.