Borgeest Manipulation of Exhaust Gas Values

Technical, Health, Legal and Political Background of the Emissions Scandal
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-658-45864-5
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 112 Seiten, eBook

This little book presents background information on the exhaust gas scandal, e.g. which pollutants are critical, how engine control units, exhaust gas recirculation and exhaust gas aftertreatment work, which driving cycles are used for testing, how manipulations on the test bench are possible and political environment this could happen unnoticed for a long time with different consequences in the EU and the USA. Measures are presented with which vehicles can also comply with real legal limits and how manipulations can be prevented legally and politically in the future. Additional details are made accessible to the reader through references to literature.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Borgeest, Kai

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chronicle.- Pollutants and their effects.- Test procedures.- Exhaust gas purification, control units and shutdown devices.- Law.- Politics.- Economic consequences.

Über Autor(innen)

The authorProf. Dr.-Ing. Kai Borgeest worked at Robert Bosch GmbH in the Diesel Systems division until 2003. Since 2003 he has been head of the Center for Automotive Electronics and Internal Combustion Engines at the University of Applied Sciences in Aschaffenburg.