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Oak Ridge National Laboratory joins Model Fuels Consortium
8th October 2007
The US Department of Energy (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has joined the Model Fuels Consortium (MFC) whose existing members are General Motors, Chevron, Conoco-Phillips, Cummins Engine Company, Dow Chemical Company, Ford Motor Company, Honda, L'Institut Français du Pétrole, Mazda, Mitsubishi Motors, Nissan, PSA Peugeot Citroën, and Toyota.
Reaction Design, a supplier of software for the analysis of chemical processes via simulation and modeling solutions, launched the MFC in 2005.
Model fuels are mixtures of a few pure chemicals that together mimic combustion behaviour in computer simulations of much more chemically complex commercial fuels. Once validated, the model fuels accurately simulate combustion, allowing fuel and engine designers to optimize engine performance and emissions control faster and at less cost than with traditional physical fuel/engine testing. Developing validated fuel surrogates and associated computer simulation tools are the main focus of the consortium.
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