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“It is going to be a huge challenge in
terms of technologies such as aftertreatment
systems and combustion
packs, and it’s going to be expensive,”
says Christoph Kandlhofer,
Group Product Manager Particle
Measurement. “We expect a prolonged
development work in order
to meet the quality standards.” Upgrades
will need to be made to development
architecture, and while
this will be costly and require industry
effort, it’s something that
we’ve been planning for some time.
Since 2018, our particle counting device
APCplus Advanced has already
been set up for particulate measurement
down to 10 nm. This capability
was continued in 2019 with the introduction
of the APC xAPP 10™.
Elsewhere in our product portfolio we are also thinking ahead. Our range
of SlimLine™ Dilution devices, our M.O.V.E iS+ portable emission measurement
system (PEMS) and the new SESAM i60FT multi-component
exhaust measurement system are all ready to help OEMs build vehicles
that are “as clean as possible under all EU driving conditions.”
The Post Euro 6 era will not arrive before 2025, and it may even be closer to
2027 or 2028. If that’s the case, there may be an interim standard – Euro 6e.
This interim standard will have in addition to actual limits, most probably
a PN limit for 10 nm particle size and a limitation for ammonia. And while
the industry waits for clear details of what future targets will look like, requests
an adequate lead time (in the past it has been just a year) and hopes
for simplification of the documentation (Euro 4 was 120 pages, while Euro
6d was more than a thousand), at AVL we are ready for whatever lies ahead.
“We have seven decades of industry know-how, forecasting experience,
and we are watching the legislative process closely,” says Kandlhofer. “We
are already preparing our testbeds for what might come, and we have the
equipment and the products we need for what comes next. We are prepared
for Post Euro 6.”