Reference number : GC-2017-Q2-04350, amendment number : , agreement type : G, recipient legal name : Ciccarelli, Gabriel (Queen’s University), recipient country : CA, recipient province : nan, recipient city : Ontario, recipient postal code : nan, program name english : Engage Grants for Universities, program name french : Subventions d'engagement partenarial pour les universités, program purpose english : Natural gas is quickly becoming a viable alternative fuel for transportation because of its clean burning_x000D_
characteristics and its abundance in North America. Westport Innovations is one of the world's largest_x000D_
developers of natural gas technologies for vehicle internal combustion engines. Westport pioneered high_x000D_
pressure direct injection (HPDI) compression ignition engine designed for the heavy duty natural gas trucking_x000D_
sector. Westport has an ongoing research and development program at its Vancouver location. Test equipment_x000D_
includes high pressure chambers used to characterize diesel fuel spray at post compression pressure. The_x000D_
company lacks equipment to characterize fuel spray in a high pressure and temperature atmosphere, and more_x000D_
importantly the ignition of a mixture of natural gas and air at prototypic post compression diesel conditions._x000D_
The objective of this project is to develop laboratory equipment that can be used to study the ignition of a_x000D_
premixed high pressure and temperature mixture of natural gas and air by diesel injection. Of specific interest_x000D_
to Westport are mixture conditions corresponding to minimum load, below which either the natural gas is too_x000D_
lean to burn or the diesel pilot will not ignite. The equipment will subsequently be available to Westport for_x000D_
future injector development and testing., program purpose french : Natural gas is quickly becoming a viable alternative fuel for transportation because of its clean burning_x000D_
characteristics and its abundance in North America. Westport Innovations is one of the world's largest_x000D_
developers of natural gas technologies for vehicle internal combustion engines. Westport pioneered high_x000D_
pressure direct injection (HPDI) compression ignition engine designed for the heavy duty natural gas trucking_x000D_
sector. Westport has an ongoing research and development program at its Vancouver location. Test equipment_x000D_
includes high pressure chambers used to characterize diesel fuel spray at post compression pressure. The_x000D_
company lacks equipment to characterize fuel spray in a high pressure and temperature atmosphere, and more_x000D_
importantly the ignition of a mixture of natural gas and air at prototypic post compression diesel conditions._x000D_
The objective of this project is to develop laboratory equipment that can be used to study the ignition of a_x000D_
premixed high pressure and temperature mixture of natural gas and air by diesel injection. Of specific interest_x000D_
to Westport are mixture conditions corresponding to minimum load, below which either the natural gas is too_x000D_
lean to burn or the diesel pilot will not ignite. The equipment will subsequently be available to Westport for_x000D_
future injector development and testing., agreement title english : Dual-fuel diesel injector study, agreement title french : Dual-fuel diesel injector study, agreement number : EGP, agreement value : 25000.0, agreement start date : 2017-09-20, agreement end date : nan, description english : nan, description french : nan, expected results english : nan, expected results french : nan, additional information english : Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year (2017-2018 to 2018-2019)., additional information french : Subvention ou bourse octroyée s'appliquant à plus d'un exercice financier (2017-2018 à 2018-2019)., owner organization : nserc-crsng, owner organization title : Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada