The Internal Combustion Engines Laboratory at Iowa State is involved in a number of research projects investigating engine combustion and emissions. The area of alternative fuels and their impact on engine performance is particularly emphasized. A variety of other special-purpose engines such as a CFR fuel test engine are installed in the laboratory. The laboratory facilities include a computer-controlled exhaust emissions bench. This equipment allows measurement of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide with NDIR analyzers, oxides of nitrogen with a chemilumenescence analyzer and unburned hydrocarbons with a heated flame ionization detector as well as oxygen and EGR level.
All gas filtering and drying and instrument calibration is handled automatically.