SemtechD: The Chassis Roll Evaluation of a Commercial Portable Emission Measurement System (PEMS)
Date Published: 2005-04-11
Paper Number:2005-01-0673
DOI: 10.4271/2005-01-0673
Citation:
Dearth*, M., Butler, J., Colvin, A., Gierczak, C. et al., "SemtechD: The Chassis Roll Evaluation of a Commercial Portable Emission Measurement System (PEMS)
," SAE Technical Paper 2005-01-0673, 2005, doi:10.4271/2005-01-0673.
A commercial PEMS, the SemtechD, was evaluated for its suitability to measure transient emissions from light-duty, oxidation catalyst equipped, diesel passenger cars. The PEMS was evaluated for its analytical capabilities in a state-of-the-art chassis dynamometer test facility. The system, manufactured by Sensors, Inc of Saline, MI, proved to be both accurate and precise. The SemtechD proved capable of measuring THC concentrations (FID-based measurement) as low as 2 ppmC with measurements on average within 4.5% of those reported by modal test cell instrumentation. Similarly, both CO and NO
x
measurements fell within 9% and 3% of the values reported (respectively) by modal test cell analyzers. Finally, modal CO
2
agreed within 2.6% of the two measurement systems across eleven vehicle tests and with more than 6000 data points compared.
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