9th CLEERS Workshop

Emphasized topic areas:

• Diesel Particle Filters
• Selective Catalytic Reduction
• Lean NOx Traps
• Synergies between these three components in actual systems

Objectives:

• Provide technical updates on the latest developments for these technologies and corresponding simulation tools
• Enhance emissions control collaboration among industry, government and universities
• Improve and update recognition of key research priorities

Purpose

CLEERS workshops are intended as relatively informal but tightly focused forums for sharing recent research results on understanding and simulating lean exhaust emissions control. Joint participation by researchers in government, universities, and industry is encouraged. This is the 9th workshop in a series sponsored by the DOE Office of FreedomCAR and Vehicle Technologies and the DOE Diesel Crosscut Team. The results of the workshop discussions, especially the all-participant discussion at the end, will be documented for the DOE Office of Transportation Technology (OTT) for consideration in improving R&D priorities and technical focus in DOE-supported transportation programs.

About Workshop 9

The 9th CLEERS workshop will be hosted by University of Michigan at their Dearborn Campus in Detroit from May 2nd through 4th, 2006. Diesel particulate filters (DPF), selective catalytic reduction (SCR) and lean NOx traps (LNT’s) will be the major discussion themes, but it is also anticipated that there will be important updates on synergies among these components in actual systems. As with the previous CLEERS workshops, this will be a public meeting open to all who are interested in the most recent developments in understanding and simulating the performance of these devices under realistic conditions.

It is expected that the workshop presentations will include invited presentations by internationally prominent researchers in DPF, SCR and LNT. Contributed presentations of 20-30 minutes about DPF, SCR, and LNT technologies are also invited from interested parties. Those who are interested in making such presentations should contact one of the following topical coordinators:

• DPF technology – George Muntean, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, email George.Muntean@pnl.gov, phone 509-375-2224 or Chris Rutland, University of Wisconsin, email rutland@engr.wisc.edu, phone 608-262-5853
• SCR technology – Darrell Herling, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, email darrell.herling@pnl.gov, phone 509-375-6905 or Joe Bonadies, Delphi, email joseph.v.bonadies@delphi.com, phone 810-257-2074
• LNT technology and system integration – Stuart Daw, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, email dawcs@ornl.gov, phone 865-946-1341 or Dick Blint, General Motors, email richard.j.blint@gm.com, phone 586-596-4291