PLANNING AND LEADERSHIP FOR A BETTER WORLD
PLANNING AND LEADERSHIP FOR A BETTER WORLD If you thought that design automation software was being used to model and simulate new fuels and combustion methods at automobile makers, you’d be wrong. Today, the automotive industry still builds old-school hardware prototypes to try out its new engine designs as well as new fuels in old engine designs.
Reaction Design's combustion models track soot formation and emissions, which are critical concerns for clean fuel development.
While it’s true that design automation software has replaced old-school clay models used to test new automobile bodies and mechanisms, advances in chemistry, timing and use of sensors that have lowered the noxious emissions and increased the fuel efficiency of modern automobile engines have mostly been found by trial and error.
"Today, automobile engine makers and designers of new fuels have to depend on know-how they've developed by trial and error, and put into their own software tools—like in the beginning of the semiconductor business," says Bernie Rosenthal, CEO of Reaction Design (San Diego). "We want to do for combustion design what EDA [electronic design automation] software did for semiconductors."
Later this year, Reaction Design will debut the world's first turnkey design automation software explicitly crafted to allow automobile engine makers and fuel suppliers to test out new designs without building a physical prototype. By inputting all of the parameters describing the specific engine and the fuel it will burn, Reaction Design's software will simulate how the formulation will perform with ultra-high accuracy, enabling prototyping of new designs the same way that semiconductor makers simulate and test their new circuit designs before building them.
"Our main competition today is hardware prototyping—that's the way that engine and fuel design is still done," Rosenthal states.
Reaction Design has already successfully pioneered similar anti-hardware-prototyping campaigns in the design of chemical reactions to meet increasingly restrictive emissions regulations, while simultaneously improving a system’s performance. That software suite, called ChemKin (for chemical kinetics), began as a research project at Sandia National Laboratory but at Reaction Design evolved into a commercial-quality software suite that is used to craft cleaner chemical reactions for combustion. Reaction Design also has successfully automated the reduction of emissions of gas turbines—while maintaining the performance and stability—with its software suite called Energico. Next, Reaction Design aims to offer a software design automation tool specifically aimed at mainstream automobile engine and fuel design.
Reaction Design also leads the Model Fuels Consortium, which shares know-how in combustion simulation among members, including Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Cummins, Dow Chemical, Ford Motor, General Motors, Honda, l'Institut Français du Pétrole, Mazda, Mitsubishi Motors, Nissan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Petrobras, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Saudi Aramco, Suzuki and Toyota.
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