Route-dependent optimal control of the after-treatment system of diesel engines

In this article, the optimal control problem for nitrogen oxide emission reduction is investigated for diesel engines with a lean nitrogen oxide trap. First, a control-oriented model is developed based on conservation laws. Then, the optimal control problem is formulated as a multistage decision problem and solved using a dynamic programming algorithm under dynamical model constraints. A trade-off between fuel economy and nitrogen oxide emission is considered in the cost function of optimization. To demonstrate the obtained optimal control scheme, the parameters of the lean nitrogen oxide trap model are identified with data obtained from a GT-power-based diesel engine simulator. The numerical simulation results for two standard driving cycles and a stochastically generated driving cycle in comparison to a conventional logic-based control scheme are provided using the identified model in the MATLAB/Simulink platform.

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