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II. BACKGROUND
A. Basics of the TWC and Emissions Testing
Catalytic converters were first used to post-treat exhaust
Fig. 1. Monolithic-type catalytic converter. feedgas in production automobiles beginning in 1975 in order
to meet emission control regulations [8]. These catalysts were
oxidation catalysts, also known as two-way catalysts, since they
oxidized HC and CO, converting them to CO and water vapor
(H O). In 1980, the catalytic converter was enhanced with the
ability to reduce NO as well [9], giving rise to the so-called
three-way converter. The primary chemical reactions that take
place in a warm, properly functioning TWC are as follows [3]:
CO H O CO H (1)
CO O CO (2)
C H O CO H O (3)
C H O CO H O (4)
H O H O (5)
NO N O (6)
CO NO N CO (7)
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a test which totally obviates this issue. The vehicle under test is
placed on a chassis dynamometer and driven through a specific
(dynamic) drive cycle which includes neutral and drive idle, ac-
celerations and decelerations of various rates, and cruises. This
is known as the federal test procedure (FTP cycle), or bag test,
since the tailpipe emissions are literally collected into bags.
The first 505 s of the test are begun when the engine is cold
(70 F) and is called Bag 1. The test continues for another 867
s, at which point the vehicle is shut off. This completes Bag 2.
After a 10-min soak, the 505-s Bag 1 test is repeated with the
warm engine. This part of the test is called Bag 3. The mass of
each emission component is then measured and divided by the
length of the test in miles to obtain the grams per mile mea- Fig. 5. Rich-to-lean A/F step.
surement. The overall measurement incorporates emissions ac-
cumulated during Bags 1–3. For the sake of completeness, the
vehicle speed profile for Bags 1 and 2 is shown in Fig. 4.
able consequence of the inclusion of palladium in the catalytic served during the combustion process. The notion of the “A/F” of the tailpipe
exhaust is less clear because mass is not instantaneously conserved through the
material. TWC; indeed, oxygen is stored and released in the catalyst. By A/F for a given
The dynamic modeling effort will center on capturing the volume of exhaust gas at the tailpipe is meant the mass ratio of oxygen to hy-
oxygen storage phenomenon, similarly to the work in [10]. drogen and carbon, whether free or combined, respectively, divided by 0.21.
When applied to the feedgas, this yields the usual number. If the fuel is oxy-
The extent of this phenomenon can be appreciated from genated (reformulated gasoline), a 1 to 2% correction to this would need to be
Figs. 5 and 6, which depict the A/F response to a step change added.
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test cell, discrepancies on the order of 20 to 30% are common. Fig. 12. Typical function f .
This is partially attributed to the dynamic response of the in-
strumentation. According to the technical specifications of the
HC and NO analyzers, the 90% rise time can be as much as
2 s, and its measurement error at each point can be up to 1%
of its current scale, regardless of the current measurement. For
example, when the measurement is at 20% of full scale, the rel-
ative measurement error can be as high as 5%.
Figs. 7 and 8 compare postcatalyst measurements of HC and
NO concentrations made with two different analyzers. One set
of measurements is collected with the Pierburg emission ana-
lyzer, and the other set is taken with so-called fast analyzers. The
fast analyzers are made by Horiba, model MEXA-1100FRC to
measure NO and MEXA-1100FRF to measure HC. For a va-
riety of practical reasons, these analyzers are not used for routine
data collection.
Figs. 9 and 10 show the TWC efficiency calculations based Fig. 13. Typical function f .
on the different measurements. Since only one set of fast ana-
lyzers was available, true fast efficiency calculations could not
be performed. A rough approximation was used, though, calcu-
lated from the fast measurements of postcatalyst concentrations
along with the slower precatalyst measurements. These plots
show that, especially in the HC efficiency comparison, the dy-
namic response of the emission data set is probably poor.
C. A/F Measurement
Pre- and postcatalyst A/F were measured with a linear
exhaust gas oxygen (EGO) sensor, commonly called a UEGO
sensor. Those used in this work are instrumentation grade,
model MO-1000 sensors made by NTK at a cost of about
$9000.00 each. These sensors are commonly modeled by a
single 300-ms time constant. However, when the A/F of the
exhaust gas departs significantly from stoichiometry, especially
in the rich direction, additional dynamics may be present. Fig. 14. Structure of the oxygen storage submodel.
Fig. 6 (see also Fig. 16) shows a “bias” in the measured tailpipe
A/F. It is unknown whether this is due to the sensor or to not providing a good quantitative measurement. No onboard
slow dynamics in the TWC, since the sensor itself operates on sensors for emissions are currently available.
principles similar to those of the TWC.
The availability of measurements in a vehicle is subject to IV. PHENOMENOLOGICAL TWC MODEL
greater limitations than the laboratory environment. Instead
of a linear sensor (UEGO), a vehicle will typically contain a A. Basic Structure
switching HEGO sensor. The HEGO sensor does not provide The goal is to construct a simplified model which will predict
a linear measurement of A/F but instead is a virtual switch conversion efficiencies under transient conditions. The structure
[11], indicating whether the air–fuel mixture is rich or lean but of the proposed TWC model is shown in Fig. 11. The basic
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TABLE II
f (MAF)
MAF
(10)
MAF
otherwise
where
;
MAF mass air flow rate, used to approximate the flow rate
of the mixture entering the TWC;
effective catalyst “capacity,” or the volume of active
sites for oxygen storage, expressed in terms of the
mass of oxygen that can be stored in the catalyst,
expressed as a function of MAF;
exchange of oxygen between the exhaust gas and
Fig. 16. Model fit for warmed-up catalyst.
the catalyst;
relative air–fuel ratio, with stoichiometry at
idea is to decompose the model into three parts: the standard (the subscript refers to the feedgas).
steady-state efficiency curves driven by tailpipe A/F, an oxygen The effective TWC volume parameter is expressed as a
storage mechanism to account for the modification of the A/F function of MAF in order to account for an observed increase in
of the feedgas as it passes through the catalyst, and a thermal effective volume at high flow rates, specifically above 80 lb /h
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senting TWC’s that are composed of multiple bricks of different [13] E. P. Brandt, Y. Wang, and J. W. Grizzle, “A simplified three-way cata-
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The authors wish to thank many of their colleagues at Ford
for helpful discussions on catalyst modeling. In particular, D. Erich P. Brandt (S’90–M’98) received the B.S. degree in computer and elec-
Hamburg, P. Li, R. Pursifull, D. Reed, M. Shane, S. Sivashankar, trical engineering and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Purdue
University, West Lafayette, IN, in 1992 and 1994, respectively, and the Ph.D.
and J. Sun deserve special mention. J. Pakko and L. Sherry are degree in electrical engineering systems from the University of Michigan, Ann
sincerely thanked for their assistance in providing dynamometer Arbor, in 1998.
test data. From 1990 to 1998, he worked at Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI, in
various part-time capacities, with his last assignment being with the Powertrain
Control Systems Department at the Ford Research Laboratory. In September
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