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Moving Towards On-Board Sensing, Reporting, and Analysis (OSAR)
The world of vehicle emissions monitoring has expanded and evolved considerably over the past few years. The range of emissions monitoring system and methodologies ranges from fully compliant PEMS, to mini-PEMS, micro-PEMS, and sensor-based PEMS, which are not designed around laboratory-based requirements, but rather use a variety of techniques that can be to potentially monitoring a much greater population of vehicles over a full range of operating conditions, to remote sensing methods that can be utilized to monitor vehicles externally under in-use operating conditions. To stay abreast of the latest developments in in-use monitoring methods, measurement systems, and in-use emissions characterization, the University of California at Riverside holds an annual International Portable Emissions Measurement System (PEMS) Conference. This year’s conference explores the application and benefits of using this full range of portable measurement systems for the characterization and compliance testing of internal combustion sources under in-use conditions, and highlights the latest advancement in these systems, research based on making and analyzing emissions and activity with these systems, and how such systems can be used in different applications. The goal of this Special Edition is to bring together the UCR PEMS conference and related research in a single issue of the said journal, focused on addressing research, developments, applications and regulatory aspects of measuring and understanding in-use emissions. The resulting Special Edition aims to provide value information to a wide range of stakeholders including scientists and engineers working in the field of in-use emissions, modelers working on developing emissions inventory models, and regulators and industry representatives working in environmental policy focused on vehicle and source emissions.
Editors
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Thomas D. Durbin
Dr. Durbin is a Research Engineer in the emissions from advanced vehicles and fuels research group of CE-CERT and an adjunct professor in the Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department. He is conducting research in the area of vehicle emissions with an emphasis on studying fuels, advanced technology vehicles, and particle and in-use emissions.
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Heejung Jung
Dr. Heejung Jung received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, and received both his M.S. and B.S. degrees from Seoul National University in Mechanical Engineering. Upon completion of his masters, he joined Hyundai Motor Company as a research engineer. Dr. Jung later completed his postdoc research at UC Davis before joining CE-CERT and UCR. He conducted vehicle emissions research for the past 20 years. He is a fellow of SAE and received Teeter and E2T award from SAE. His interest is vehicle emissions, cabin air quality, aerosol, and air pollution.
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Karl Ropkins
Dr Karl Ropkins a Senior Research Fellow in Transport Studies, Faculty of Environment, University of Leeds in the UK and private consultant working in the air quality and emissions measurements sectors. Karl’s interests focus on the development, deployment and use of environmental measurement systems, as part of efforts to provide early evidence regarding the real-world impacts of in-coming ‘Clean’ and ‘Zero Emissions’ technologies, and pre-empting longer-term requirements for their monitoring, maintenance and regulation
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Susumu Sato
Susumu Sato is an Associate Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology. His current research field includes real-world vehicle emission measurement & modeling, HCCI combustion, PCCI combustion and Diesel combustion improvement, and new aftertreatment system development for natural gas engine. Prior to joining Tokyo Institute of Technology, Dr. Sato was involved in research to develop on-board measurement methods and to evaluate emissions of the vehicles fueled with biodiesel, when he belonged to National Traffic Safety and Environment Laboratory (NTSEL), Japan.
