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Regulation No 120 of the Economic Commission for Europe of the United Nations (UN/ECE) — Uniform provisions concerning the approval of internal combustion engines to be installed in agricultural and forestry tractors and in non-road mobile machinery, with regard to the measurement of the net power, net torque and specific fuel consumption [2019/405]

Incorporating all valid text up to:

02 series of amendments — Date of entry into force: 29 December 2018

CONTENTS

REGULATION

1. Scope

2. Definitions

3. Application for approval

4. Approval

5. Specifications and tests

6. Conformity of production

7. Penalties for non-conformity of production

8. Modification and extension of approval of an engine type or engine family

9. Production definitively discontinued

10. Names and addresses of Technical Services responsible for conducting approval tests, and of Type Approval Authorities

ANNEXES

1. Templates for information folder and information document

2. Communication

3. Arrangements of approval marks

4. Method for measuring internal combustion engine net power

5. Parameters for the definition of engine types and engine families, and their operation modes

6. Checks on conformity of production

7. Technical characteristics of reference fuels prescribed for approval tests and to verify conformity of production

1. SCOPE

1.1. This Regulation applies to the representation of the curves as a function of engine speed of the power, torque and specific fuel consumption at full load, indicated by the manufacturer for internal combustion engines to be used:

1.1.1. In category T vehicles (1),

1.1.2. In non-road mobile machinery (1), operated under variable or constant speed.

1.2. The internal combustion engines belong to one of the following categories:

1.2.1. Reciprocating internal combustion engines (positive-ignition or compression-ignition), but excluding free piston engines;

1.2.2. Rotary piston engines (positive-ignition or compression-ignition).

2. DEFINITIONS

2.1. ‘Approval of an engine’ means the approval of an engine type with regard to its net power measured in accordance with the procedure specified in Annex 4 to this Regulation;

2.2. ‘Approval of an engine family’ means the approval of the members of an engine family with regard to their net power in accordance with the procedure specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of this Regulation;

2.3. ‘Constant-speed engine’ means an engine type-approval of which is limited to constant-speed operation, excluding engines the constant-speed governor function of which is removed or disabled; it may be provided with an idle speed that can be used during start-up or shut-down and it may be equipped with a governor that can be set to an alternative speed when the engine is stopped;

2.4. ‘Constant-speed operation’ means an engine operation with a governor that automatically controls the operator demand to maintain engine speed, even under changing load;

2.5. ‘DeNOX system’ means an exhaust after-treatment system designed to reduce emissions of oxides of nitrogen (NOX) (e.g. passive and active lean NOX catalysts, NOX adsorbers and selective catalytic reduction (SCR) systems);

2.6. ‘Dual-fuel engine’ means an engine that is designed to simultaneously operate with a liquid fuel and a gaseous fuel, both fuels being metered separately, the consumed amount of one of the fuels relative to the other one being able to vary depending on the operation;

2.7. ‘Electronically controlled engine’ means an engine using electronic control to determine both the quantity and timing of injected fuel.

2.8. ‘Engine family’ means a manufacturer's grouping of engines which, through their design, fulfil the grouping criteria laid down in Annex 5 to this Regulation;

2.9. ‘Engine type’ means a category of engines which do not differ in such essential engine characteristics as defined in Annex 5 to this Regulation;

2.10. ‘Exhaust-gas recirculation’ or ‘EGR’ means a technical device that is part of the emission control system and reduces emissions by routing exhaust gases that have been expelled from the combustion chamber(s) back into the engine to be mixed with incoming air before or during combustion, except for the use of valve timing to increase the amount of residual exhaust gas in the combustion chamber(s) that is mixed with incoming air before or during combustion;

2.11. ‘Gaseous fuel’ means any fuel which is wholly gaseous at standard ambient conditions (298 K, absolute ambient pressure 101,3 kPa);

2.12. ‘Internal combustion engine’ or ‘Engine’ means an energy converter, other than a gas turbine, designed to transform chemical energy (input) into mechanical energy (output) with an internal combustion process; it includes, where they have been installed, the emission control system and the communication interface (hardware and messages) between the engine's electronic control unit(s) and any other powertrain or category T vehicle or non-road mobile machinery control unit necessary to comply with this Regulation;

2.13. ‘λ-shift factor’ or ‘Sλ’ means an expression that describes the required flexibility of the engine management system regarding a change of the excess-air ratio λ if the engine is fuelled with a gas composition different from pure methane;

2.14. ‘Liquid fuel’ means a fuel which exists in the liquid state at standard ambient conditions (298 K, absolute ambient pressure 101,3 kPa);

2.15. ‘Liquid-fuel mode’ means the normal operating mode of a dual-fuel engine during which the engine does not use any gaseous fuel for any engine operating condition;

2.16. ‘Manufacturer’ means any natural or legal person who is responsible to the Type Approval Authority for all aspects of the engine approval and for ensuring conformity of engine production, whether or not they are directly involved in all stages of the design and construction of the engine which is the subject of the approval process;

2.17. ‘Maximum net power’ means the highest value of the net power on the nominal full-load power curve for the engine type;

2.18. ‘Maximum net power speed’ means the engine speed at which the maximum net power is obtained, as specified by the manufacturer;

2.19. ‘Maximum torque’ means the highest value of the net torque measured at full engine load.

2.20. ‘Maximum torque speed’ means the engine speed at which the maximum torque is obtained from the engine, as specified by the manufacturer;

2.21. ‘Mechanically controlled engine’ means an engine using mechanical devices to determine the quantity and timing of the delivered fuel.

2.22. ‘Net power’ means the power obtained on a test bench at the end of the crankshaft or its equivalent at the corresponding engine speed with the auxiliaries and equipment listed in Table 1 of Annex 4 to this Regulation, determined under reference atmospheric conditions;

2.23. ‘Parent engine’ means an engine selected from an engine family in such a way that it complies with requirements set out in Annex 5 to this Regulation;

2.24. ‘Particulate after-treatment system’ means an exhaust after-treatment system designed to reduce emissions of particulate pollutants through a mechanical, aerodynamic, diffusional or inertial separation;

2.25. ‘Rated net power’ means engine net power as declared by the manufacturer at rated speed;

2.26. ‘Rated speed’ means the maximum full load speed (*1) allowed by an engine's governor, as designed by the manufacturer, or, if a governor is not present, the speed at which the maximum net power is attained by the engine, as specified by the manufacturer;

2.27. ‘Reagent’ means any consumable or non-recoverable medium required and used for the effective operation of the exhaust after-treatment system;

2.28. ‘Reference power’ means the maximum net power for variable speed engines and the rated net power for constant speed engines

2.29. ‘Reference power speed’ means the engine speed at which the reference power is obtained, as specified by the manufacturer;

2.30. ‘Regeneration’ means an event during which emissions levels change while the exhaust after-treatment system's performance is being restored by design and which can be classified as continuous regeneration or infrequent (periodic) regeneration;

2.31. ‘Tampering’ means inactivation, adjustment or modification of the engine control system, including any software or other logical control elements of such a system, that has the effect, whether intended or not, of changing the engine performance;

2.32. ‘Variable-speed engine’ means an engine that is not a constant-speed engine;

2.33. ‘Wobbe index’ or ‘W’ means the ratio of the corresponding calorific value of a gas (Hgas) per unit volume and the square root of its relative density (ρ) under the same reference conditions:

3. APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL

3.1. The application for approval of an engine type or an engine family with regard to the measurement of the net power shall be submitted by the manufacturer or by his duly accredited representative.

3.2. The applicant shall provide the Type Approval Authority with an information folder which includes the following:

(a) An information document, including a list of reference fuels and, where requested by the manufacturer, any other specified fuels, fuel mixtures or fuel emulsions referred to in paragraph 5.2.3 and described in accordance with Annex 7 to this Regulation.

(b) All relevant data, drawings, photographs and other information relating to the engine type or, where applicable, the parent engine;

(c) Any additional information requested by the Type Approval Authority in the context of the type-approval application procedure.

A description of the engine type and if applicable the particulars of the engine family referred to in Annex 5 of this Regulation.

3.3. The information folder may be provided in paper form or in an electronic format that is accepted by the technical service and the Type Approval Authority.

3.3.1. Applications submitted on paper shall be in triplicate. Any drawings shall be to an appropriate scale and in sufficient detail on size A4 sheets or in a folder of A4 format. Photographs (if any) shall show sufficient detail.

3.4. Manufacturers shall make available to the technical service responsible for conducting the type-approval tests defined in paragraph 5, an engine conforming to the engine type or, in the case of an engine family, to the parent engine characteristics described in Annex 5 of this Regulation.

3.5. In the case of an application for an engine family type-approval, if the Technical Service determines that, with regard to the selected parent engine, the application submitted does not fully represent the engine family described in Annex 5, manufacturers shall make available an alternative and, if necessary, an additional parent engine which is considered by the Technical Service to represent the engine family.

4. APPROVAL

4.1. If the power of the engine submitted for approval pursuant to this Regulation meets the requirements of paragraph 5. below, approval of the engine type or family shall be granted.

4.2. An approval number shall be assigned to each engine type or family approved. Its first two digits (at present 02 for the Regulation in its form) shall indicate the series of amendments incorporating the most recent major technical amendments made to the Regulation at the time of issue of the approval. The same Contracting Party shall not assign the same number to another engine type or family.

4.3. Notice of approval or of extension or of refusal of approval of an engine type or an engine family pursuant to this Regulation shall be communicated to the Parties to the 1958 Agreement applying this Regulation by means of a form conforming to the model in Annex 2 to this Regulation.

4.4. There shall be affixed, conspicuously and in a readily accessible place as specified on the approval form, to every engine conforming to an engine type or an engine family approved under this Regulation a statutory marking consisting of:

4.4.1. A circle surrounding the letter ‘E’ followed by the distinguishing number of the country which has granted approval (2);

4.4.2. The number of this Regulation, followed by the letter ‘R’, a dash and the approval number to the right of the circle prescribed in paragraph 4.4.1. Where the statutory marking of the engine is not visible without removing parts, the vehicle manufacturer shall affix to the category T vehicle or the non-road mobile machinery, in a visible manner, a duplicate of the marking provided by the manufacturer.

4.5. If the engine conforms to an approved type or family under one or more other Regulations annexed to the Agreement, in the country which has granted approval under this Regulation, the symbol prescribed in paragraph 4.4.1 need not be repeated; in such a case the Regulation and approval numbers and the additional symbols of all the Regulations under which approval has been granted under this Regulation shall be placed in vertical columns to the right of the symbol prescribed in paragraph 4.4.1.

4.6. The statutory marking shall be placed close to or on the data plate affixed by the manufacturer to the approved type.

4.7. Annex 3 to this Regulation gives examples of arrangements of approval marks.

4.8. Every engine conforming to an engine type or an engine family approved under this Regulation must bear, in addition to the approval mark:

(a) The trademark or trade name of the manufacturer of the engine and the address at which it can be contacted;

(b) The manufacturer's engine type or engine family designation in case the engine type belongs to a family;

(c) The unique engine identification number.

5. SPECIFICATIONS AND TESTS

5.1. General

The components liable to affect the power of the engine shall be so designed, constructed and assembled as to enable the engine in normal use, despite the vibrations to which it may be subjected, to comply with the provisions of this Regulation.

5.1.1. For this purpose, the engine net power measured in accordance with the test conditions and detailed technical procedures set out in Annex 4 to this Regulation, using the fuel(s) specified in paragraph 5.2.3 and corrected according to the power correction factors defined in paragraph 5 of Annex 4 of this Regulation shall not deviate by more than the tolerances specified in paragraph 5.3 from the power curves declared by the manufacturer.

5.2. Description of tests for internal combustion engines

5.2.1. The net power test shall consist of either

(a) A run at full throttle for mechanically controlled positive ignition engines a run fixed full load fuel injection pump setting for mechanically controlled compression ignition engines; or

(b) A run at the required fuel system settings to produce the manufacturer specified power for electronically controlled engines.

The engine shall be equipped as specified in Table 1 of Annex 4 to this Regulation.

5.2.2. Measurements shall be taken at a sufficient number of engine speeds to define correctly the power, torque and specific fuel consumption curves between the lowest and the highest engine speeds recommended by the manufacturer. This range of speeds must include the rotational speeds at which the engine produces its rated net power, its maximum power and its maximum torque.

5.2.3. The testing of an engine type or engine family shall be carried out by using the following reference fuels or fuel combinations described in Annex 7, as appropriate:

(a) Diesel;

(b) Petrol;

(c) Petrol/oil mixture, for two-stroke SI engines;

(d) Natural gas/bio methane;

(e) Liquid petroleum gas (LPG);

(f) Ethanol.

The engine type or engine family shall, in addition, meet the requirements set out in paragraph 5.1.1 in respect of any other specified fuels, fuel mixtures or fuel emulsions included by a manufacturer in an application for type-approval and described in Annex 1 to this Regulation.

5.2.3.1. The fuel used shall be specified in the test report.

5.2.4. Measurements shall be carried out according to the provisions of Annex 4 to this Regulation.

5.2.5. The test report shall contain the results and all the calculations required to determine the net power, as listed in the appendix A.1 to Annex 2 to this Regulation together with the characteristics of the engine, as listed in Annex 1 to this Regulation.

5.3. Interpretation of results

5.3.1. Net power

The net power declared by the manufacturer for the type of engine (or parent engine) shall be accepted if it does not differ by more than the values indicated in the table below, from the corrected values measured by the technical service on the engine submitted for testing.

Engine Type Reference power [%] Other measurement points on the curve [%] Tolerance for engine speed [%] General ± 2 ± 4 ± 1,5 Petrol fuelled spark ignited engines with governor ± 4 ± 6 ± 4 Petrol fuelled spark ignited engines without governor ± 4 ± 10 ± 4

5.3.2. Reference power speed

The reference power speed declared by the manufacturer shall not deviate by more than 100 min– 1 from the value measured by the technical service on the engine submitted for testing. For spark ignited petrol fuelled engines, the reference power speed declared by the manufacturer shall not deviate from the value measured by the technical service on the engine submitted for testing by more than 150 min– 1 for engines provided with governor and for engines without governor 350 min– 1 or 4 per cent, whichever is smaller.

5.3.3. Fuel consumption

The specific fuel consumption curve declared by the manufacturer for the type of engine (or parent engine) shall be accepted if it does not differ by more than ± 8 per cent at all measurement points from the values measured for the same points by the technical service on the engine submitted for testing.

5.3.4. Engine family

In case of compliance of the parent engine to the conditions in paragraphs 5.3.1 and 5.3.2, the acceptance is automatically extended to all the declared curves of the family members.

5.4. Engine types and engine families shall be designed and fitted with engine control strategies in such a way as to prevent tampering to the extent possible.

6. CONFORMITY OF PRODUCTION

The conformity of production procedures shall comply with those set out in the Agreement, Schedule 1 (E/ECE/TRANS/505/Rev.3), with the following requirements:

6.1. Engines approved under this Regulation shall be so manufactured as to conform to the type approved.

6.2. The minimum requirements for conformity of production control procedures set forth in Annex 6 to this Regulation shall be complied with.

7. PENALTIES FOR NON-CONFORMITY OF PRODUCTION

7.1. The approval granted in respect of an engine type or an engine family pursuant to this Regulation may be withdrawn if the requirements set forth in paragraph 6.1 above are not met or if an engine or an engine family bearing the approval mark does not conform to the type approved.

7.2. If a Contracting Party to the 1958 Agreement applying this Regulation withdraws an approval it has previously granted, it shall forthwith so notify the other Contracting Parties applying this Regulation, by means of a communication form conforming to the model in Annex 2 to this Regulation.

8. MODIFICATION AND EXTENSION OF APPROVAL OF AN ENGINE TYPE OR ENGINE FAMILY

8.1. Every modification of an engine type or an engine family with regard to the characteristics in Annex 1, shall be notified to the Type Approval Authority which approved the engine type or engine family. The Type Approval Authority may then either:

8.1.1. Consider that the modifications made are unlikely to have any appreciable adverse effect and that in any case the engine still complies with the requirements; or

8.1.2. Require a further test report from the Technical Service responsible for conducting the tests.

8.2. Confirmation or refusal of approval, specifying the alterations shall be communicated by the procedure specified in paragraph 4.3 above to the Parties to the Agreement applying this Regulation.

8.3. The Type Approval Authority issuing the extension of approval shall assign a series number for such an extension and inform thereof the other Parties to the 1958 Agreement applying this Regulation by means of a communication form conforming to the model in Annex 2 to this Regulation.

9. PRODUCTION DEFINITIVELY DISCONTINUED

If the holder of an approval completely ceases to manufacture an engine type or an engine family approved in accordance with this Regulation, he shall so inform the authority which granted the approval. Upon receiving the relevant communication that authority shall inform thereof the other Parties to the 1958 Agreement applying this Regulation by means of a communication form conforming to the model in Annex 2 to this Regulation.

10. NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF TECHNICAL SERVICES RESPONSIBLE FOR CONDUCTING APPROVAL TESTS, AND OF TYPE APPROVAL AUTHORITIES

The Parties to the Agreement which apply this Regulation shall communicate to the United Nations Secretariat the names and addresses of the Technical Services responsible for conducting approval tests, and/or the Type Approval Authorities which grant approval, and to which forms certifying approval or extension or refusal of approval, issued in other countries, are to be sent.

(1) As defined in the Consolidated Resolution on the Construction of Vehicles (R.E.3.), document ECE/TRANS/WP.29/78/Rev.6, para. 2 — www.unece.org/trans/main/wp29/wp29wgs/wp29gen/wp29resolutions.html

(*1) Note by the secretariat: for the purpose of this Regulation ‘speed’ means ‘engine speed’.

(2) The distinguishing numbers of the Contracting Parties to the 1958 Agreement are reproduced in Annex 3 to the Consolidated Resolution on the Construction of Vehicles (R.E.3), document ECE/TRANS/WP.29/78/Rev.6, Annex 3 — www.unece.org/trans/main/wp29/wp29wgs/wp29gen/wp29resolutions.html