Last week, Wisconsin Soybean Marketing Board (WSMB) donated $15,000 to help with the development of the RCCI project. The vehicle will be shown off next year from Jan. 30-Feb.1st for the WSMB’s annual conference at Kalahari in Wisconsin Dells.
It was the last home game of the Badger Football Season, this game is always dedicated to all the Seniors that will be graduating from UW-Madison. For some member on the Hybrid Vehicle Team this will be their final year as UW undergraduate students. Before the final game of the season took place, there was the Badger Bash at Union South on Saturday, where a few Seniors from the vehicle team volunteered some of their time to help drive the Bucky Wagon around Union South to give a grand entrance for the UW Marching Band Assistant Directors and Bucky.
Pictured (left to right): Brian Lee-Senior graduating in Spring 2013, Team Leader: Jake Riederer, Assistant Team Leader: Rishi Shah-Senior graduating in Spring 2013, and UW Marching Band Directors. (Picture taken by Outreach Leader:Kay Bailey- Senior graduating in Spring 2013)
This past weekend a few members from the mechanical and controls team worked on the dynamometer in preparation for RCCI. It’s official the Dyno is alive!! (Click on the link to see a short video) The dynamometer is a device utilized to measure force, moment forces (torque) or power produced by the engine and motor. The next goal for the dyno is to get wiring all squared away and fix a few components mechanically. Let’s keep up the good work!
The Hybrid Vehicle Team would like to welcome all students to campus. As Summer ends and Fall begins the Hybrid Team is gearing up for work in the automotive shop to get RCCI (Reactivity Controlled Compression Ignition) operating in our hybrid vehicles. As members depart from the team and go on to start their careers, new members are eagerly coming to our team to learn and show off their own knowledge and skills
To learn more about the team come to our kickoff meeting this Friday, Sept 7th at 3:30pm in Mechanical Engineering (ME) 1106
Once again welcome and we hope everyone has a great semester.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Engine Research Center has recently started converting it’s GM 1.9L diesel engine laboratory to operate with Reactivity Controlled Compression Ignition. The main points of focus during this conversion are adding pressure sensing glow plugs, installing an intake manifold which has been modified to include port fuel injectors, and building a low-reactivity (gasoline, E85, etc.) fuel system. This is also an exciting time for the Hybrid team because if this setup is successful, it will be very similar to what is used in the vehicle.
MCE RCCI Engine Open
RCCI Intake
Team Leader 2012-Jake Reiderer
Year in School: Senior
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Duration on HVT: 3 years, pert near
Duties: Keep everyone on track and work on the car
Individual and/or Team Goals:
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Assistant Team Leader 2012-Rishi Shah
Year in School: Senior
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Duration on HVT: 2 years, going on my 5th semester
Duties: 2nd in command and work on the car
Individual and/or Team Goals: Learn as much as possible about hybrid technology, and become a better leader. By graduation, have the vehicle fully operable! Have a plan for the following year. Become a more organized team by documenting and creating procedures so future teams can look back and understand what we did and how we did it.
Controls/ Electrical Team Leader 2012- Mike Carlson
Year in School: Senior
Major: Electrical Engineering and clarinet performance
Duration on HVT: 4 years
Duties: I’m responsible for the high voltage and low voltage wiring in the car and writing the controls algorithm for our vehicles.
Individual and/or Team Goals: I hope to get both our vehicles to an operational state including extra features such as power steering, cruise control, and also add in-dash driver information screens.
Mechanical Team Leader 2012-Grant Allen
Year in School: Senior, 5.5year
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Duration on HVT: 1 year
Duties: Manage mechanical team work on the vehicles. Organize and assist with projects in the automotive shop.
Individual and/or Team Goals: Save the planet from those terrible combustion engines.
Outreach Team Leader 2012-Kay Bailey
Year in School: Super Senior, which means I’m going to have a super final year
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Duration on HVT: 2 years, I’m going on my 5th semester
Duties: Manage the team website, order apparel, assist the other team leaders wherever and whenever possible, plan fun activities for the team, and coordinate public events
Individual and/ or Team Goals: To teach all the new members about CAD, basic machining and safety. Also to get the new team website set up, and my team goal is to get RCCI finished in the eMoove and started in the Moovada before I graduate.
During a nice relaxing summer in Madison the Hybrid Vehicle Team attended the Green Drive Expo at the Alliant Energy Center. The Expo was a two day event on July 21-22, to promote green transportation. We had numerous people ask about what our team does and how RCCI (Reactivity Controlled Compression Ignition) will be incorporated into our vehicle.
eMoove at the Green Drive Expo 2012
“Team,
Thanks to everyone that made an effort to help out this year. We put in hours upon hours of hard work as we chased our goal of creating a working RCCI series hybrid vehicle. Unfortunately the odds were stacked against us and we hit too many roadblocks to meet our goal of having the vehicle finished by the end of the semester. I think I can speak for everyone when I say that I’m disappointed that we don’t have a working vehicle as I leave the team, but we did accomplish more than we realize over the course of the year.
University of Wisconsin Hybrid Vehicle Team 2011-2012
Over Spring break the Mechanical Team was working hard in the shop to get the motor mount plate in the vehicle and other small projects done in preparation for our new motor.
Motor mount plate in the vehicle coupled to a cardboard aided design of our new motor. Pictured: Grant and Chris
After Spring break the team attended the 10th Annual Science Expedition at the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery, to talk with kids and adults about our hybrid vehicle and our team.
People listen intently to Mike (Controls Leader) as he explains how the eMoove operates
For the month of April, two new members on the Mechanical Team won the Mover n Shaker Award for all their hard work in the shop and dedication to the team.
Grant accepts the Mover n Shaker Award for all the intense machining and welding he has done for the team in the shop, as well as for talking with people at the Science Expedition. He is pretty excited.
Bolun accepts the Mover n Shaker Award for helping out at the Science Expedition, assisting around the shop, and for his determination to get all his green shop pass upgrades
The new front powertrain of the eMoove Series Hybrid will be an engine-generator (genset) mated together with a custom-machined adapter assembly. Huge strides were made this week towards completing this assembly, as the large flat plat that makes up the engine side of the adapter was fabricated on our 3-Axis Haas CNC Milling machine. Many thanks to Corky Lederer for his help on the machining!
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