A Department of Energy User Facility: Specializing in the development and
detailed characterization of advanced fuels, engines, and emissions-control
technologies utilizing unique diagnostic and measurement tools.

Research Capabilities

Real-time, in-situ IC engine emission measurement technology

In addition to conventional analysis tools for HC, CO, CO₂, NO_x, etc., FEERC also has the following unique instrumentation:

Spatially Resolved Capillary Inlet Mass Spectrometer (SpaciMS)
Fast-response, direct-sampling mass spectrometry for emission control device diagnostics

Fast UV instrument
Ultra-violet absorption instrument for ammonia concentration with no water interference

Cambustion Fast FID

Cambustion Fast NO

Exhaust Flow Measurement

Characterization of exhaust particles by

• time-integrated mass measurement
• near-real-time measurement by tapered element oscillating microbalance (TEOM)
• particle sizing by micro-orifice uniform deposit impactor (MOUDI) system and scanning mobility particle sizer (SMPS)
• near-real-time optical particulate measurement via diesel particle scatterometer
• on-site analysis of particulate matter composition

Detailed IC engine exhaust species analysis

Speciation of volatile, semi-volitile, and particle consituents of exhaust

FTIR

GC

GC-MS

Capillary Electrophoresis

HPLC