Please feel free to contact the ACRF at by emailing bjlawle@clemson.edu.
We are always happy to share our papers, discuss current and past research projects, and consider future collaborations. We hope to hear from you so that we can work together to advocate for renewable fuels, improve the efficiency and emissions characteristics of internal combustion engines, and understand how best to combust sustainable low-carbon alcohol fuels, and in doing so, address climate change from transportation with an approach that is economically viable.
Clemson Powertrain Research
The Advanced Combustion and Renewable Fuels (ACRF) group is part of a larger automotive powertrain research area in Clemson University’s Automotive Engineering department. The larger powertrain group consists of Professor Zoran Filipi, Professor Robert Prucka, Associate Professor Jiangfeng Zhang, Research Assistant Professor Qilun Zhu, members of the ACRF, and others.
Together, the Powertrain research group at Clemson has expertise related:
- Combustion chemistry and emissions formation of conventional and renewable fuels
- Fundamental thermodynamics and heat transfer
- Fluid mechanics as it relates to combustion engines
- Hybridization of powertrain systems
- Powertrain electrification and grid integration
- Battery cycle life, and other electrochemistry considerations
- Real-time control and optimization using model predictive control (MPC) and/or machine learning techniques
Within each of the bullets above, the Powertrain group has both experimental and modeling capabilities. For more information on Associate Professor Jiangfeng (Jeff) Zhang’s research group, please refer to https://cecas.clemson.edu/~jiangfz/
To learn more about the larger Powertrain research group at Clemson University’s Automotive Engineering department, please refer to the Advanced Powertrain Systems site.