Herbert Akroyd Stuart Prize

Awarded to papers published/or contribution/or achievement in the field of the origin and development of heavy oil engines, published by the Institution during the previous year.

Eligibility

The award is open to members and non-members of the Institution, worldwide.

Prize value

The Powertrain Systems and Fuels Group has a total budget allocation of £350 for distribution to recognise the achievement of an engineer in the Group’s field of expertise by offering

• Dugald Clerk Prize
• Herbert Akroyd Stuart Prize.

Either one or both can be awarded in any given year to the total budget allocation.

Monetary value to be determined by the Group plus certificate.

Nominations

• The Group is able to accept both a nomination or an application from an individual.
• Self-nominations are permitted

Application process

Closing date: 31 March 2021

Nominations should be sent to ge@imeche.org.

Judging

The Group considers nominations and applications from individuals and agrees who should be offered the prize/award, details of which are sent to the Prizes and Awards Committee (NEW NAME FOR TBAC) in May each year, for overall approval. Once approved arrangements are made for the Group to present the prize/award.

2020 Prize winner: Daniel Neumann

For the paper - "Diesel combustion control via digital rate shaping with modern fuel injection systems" by D Neumann et al.

_{Daniel Neumann with his fellow authors: From left to right: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Pischinger (VKA RWTH Aachen), Thomas Körfer (FEV Group), Daniel Neumann (FEV Consulting GmbH, before VKA RWTH Aachen) and Dr.-Ing. Joschka Schaub (FEV Europe GmbH)}

This publication discusses various possible applications of the digital combustion rate shaping control concept (DiCoRS).

In a first step, the control approach was used to realize an automatic identification and optimized calibration of complex fuel injection strategies on an engine test bench. I

In a second step, the concept has been investigated in combination with second-generation synthetic fuels, so-called e-fuels with a high alcohol content. It could be demonstrated that the DiCoRS principle can cope with the different combustion behavior of the fuels by adjusting the injection strategy appropriately during engine operation.