Experimentally Compared Fuel Consumption Modelling of Refuse Collecting Vehicles for Energy Optimization Purposes

Francisco Soriano; Jesus Alvarez-Florez; Manuel Moreno-Eguilaz

doi:10.4271/2014-01-9023

2014-05-09

Experimentally Compared Fuel Consumption Modelling of Refuse Collecting Vehicles for Energy Optimization Purposes 2014-01-9023

This paper presents a novel methodology to develop and validate fuel consumption models of Refuse Collecting Vehicles (RCVs). The model development is based on the improvement of the classic approach. The validation methodology is based on recording vehicle drive cycles by the use of a low cost data acquisition system and post processing them by the use of GPS and map data. The corrected data are used to feed the mathematical energy models and the fuel consumption is estimated.

In order to validate the proposed system, the fuel consumption estimated from these models is compared with real filling station refueling records. This comparison shows that these models are accurate to within 5%.

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Experimentally Compared Fuel Consumption Modelling of Refuse Collecting Vehicles for Energy Optimization Purposes 2014-01-9023

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