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The Austrian Society of Automotive Engineers staged the 2007 Vienna Motor Symposium at the end of April this year. Places at the event were strictly limited, but the Society is making the proceedings available.

The CD version contains all the papers in English and German and costs €220, plus postage. For more information email: info@oevk.at

Sessions addressed the following topics: Environmental problems | Acoustics | New otto engines | Exhaust gas aftertreatment | New diesel engines | Hybrid drive systems | Fuels | New materials | Supercharging Otto engines | New engine concepts | Diesel injection and combustion | Engine management | Cooling

Highlights of the symposium include turbocharging gasoline direct injection engines, NOx treatment measure and the latest developments in transmissions. A list of speakers and presentations is below.

Around 1000 people attended, mainly from Germany and Austria, but also from across Europe, North America and Asia.

Headline speakers included:

Details of other sessions:

Emissions

• Greenhouse gas carbon dioxide – a flashback to the past and an outlook on the future
• The influence of traffic on climate
• BMW on integrated approach to sustainable CO2-reduction
• Emitec on The Fundamentals of Laminar and Turbulent Catalysis - Turbulent Beats Laminar:
• Emitec, AVL List, Roth-Technik and Süd-Chemie on high Performance SCR catalyst systems: elements to guarantee the lowest NOx emissions
• Umicore on innovative NOx-storage catalyst systems for spray-guided direct-injection gasoline

Diesel engines

• Volkswagen's new generation of 5-Cylinder TDI-engines for light duty-trucks
• The new Renault 2.0 Litre diesel
• DaimlerChrysler's small-displacement EURO4 commercial vehicle engine
• Mahle's approach to sound engineering for diesel engines
• FEV Motorentechnik's concepts for integrated regeneration of diesel particulate traps and NOx-storage catalysts
• GM Powertrain on diesel particulate filters – field experiences with current systems and factors defining future designs

Gasoline engines

• Ford on downsizing and stratified operation – an attractive combination based on a spray-guided combustion system
• The new 2.0 litre high performance turbo engine with gasoline direct injection from GM
• A 1.6 litre supercharged engine for CNG motorization of a sportive vehicle
• The new six-cylinder bi-turbo engine with variable turbine geometry for the Porsche 911 Turbo
• The new Toyota 3.5 litre v6 gasoline engine with the innovative d-4s stoichiometric direct injection system
• Audi's new V10-FSI engine

Hybrids

• AVL List on turbo hybrids – an integral approach to a modern gasoline hybrid engine system
• Hybrid system and emission control system development for the Lexus GS450h
• Lexus RX 400h – drivetrain analysis and test results
• FEV Motorentechnik on the optimum hybrid - hybrid drives with the focus on the cost-benefit ratio
• Siemens VDO: new electrical drive configurations for hybrid vehicles”
• General Motors Powertrain, DaimlerChrysler and BMW: The new two-mode hybrid system developed by the global alliance for hybrid co-operation”

Injection systems

• Development status of the Siemens VDO piezo injection system for spray-guided combustion
• New methods for the selection of injectors and start-tuning of gasoline engines with port injection
• Denso on the flexible design of fuel injection and ignition systems for gasoline direct injection engines
• Bosch: Direct injection - from vision to reality
• DaimlerChrysler on the future technology of spark-ignition engines: spray-guided direct injection with piezo injector
• Bosch provides the results of combustion optimization using multi-hole nozzles in modern passenger car diesel engines

Components and control

• IAV on: “Variable valve trains for passenger car diesel engines – potentials, limits and methods of realisation”
• Magna Powertrain on mass balancing systems for combustion engines: new simulation tools – alternative materials – future concepts
• AVL List on new control concepts for gasoline, diesel and hybrid – the theory and practice of algorithm design

Fuels

• Shell on Fuels of the Future”
• DaimlerChrysler, Sasol and SasolChevron on the potential of synthetic fuels to meet future emission regulations
• Volkswagen combustion systems based on a new fuel specification

The CD version contains all the papers in English and German and costs €220, plus postage. For more information email: info@oevk.at