11/02/01 -Small Engine Technology Conference and Exhibition (SETC)


Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 2, 2001 - OPTIMUM Power Technology will be an exhibitor at the Small Engine Technology Conference and Exhibition, 28-29-30 November 2001, located in Pisa, Italy.

    Visit OPTIMUM at Booth #11   

Professor Emeritus Gordon P. Blair, Queen's University Belfast and Dr. Dermot O. Mackey, co-author, will be presenting two papers at this Conference.

  Exhaust pipe tuning on a four-stroke engine;
Experimentation and simulation
Wednesday, 28 November 2001
Room 4218
 
  Maps of discharge coefficient data for valves,
ports and throttles
Wednesday, 28 November 2001
Room 4219

Virtual Engines® is the new 'benchmark' engine performance simulation design system. After many years of research, development and rigorous validation by Queen's University Belfast and OPTIMUM, the company introduced Virtual 4-Stroke® and Virtual 2-Stroke®. Virtual Engines employs far more accurate unsteady gas dynamic and thermodynamic flow models and boundary conditions to produce superior simulation accuracy the first time, with little or no model calibration. The Virtual Engines Automated Design Optimizer (patent pending) running on the OPTIMUM Network Supercomputer will deliver better designs in a fraction of the time of other systems.

    Visit Booth 11 for a demo on the new features of
Virtual 4-Stroke v5.0    

  EFFICIENT
•  Build models
•  Validate and calibrate baseline engines
•  Achieve successful simulations capable of accelerating product development

  FLEXIBLE
•  Variable-Valve timing
•  Variable-intake systems
•  Turbochargers - Fixed and Variable Geometry
•  Superchargers
•  Catalysts

  POWER
•  Parametric engine design
•  Automated Optimization
•  Parallel Processing
•  Comprehensive post processing

  COMPATIBLE
•  Fluent
•  Star
•  Matlab/Simulink
•  MS Excel

PTrAc/PTrAn provides a powerful electronic system for data acquisition and analysis in one economical package. PTrAc takes advantage of low cost PC hardware and advanced electronics to product a unique high-speed data acquisition system capable of sampling up to 1.25 MHz in either time-based or angle-based mode. Its break-through software controlled digital filtering system (patent pending) ensures that the correct level of filtering is applied to prevent aliasing of the incoming signals regardless of the engine speed. PTrAn, available as part of the PTrAc/PTrAn system, or as an individual software package, is the world's first high-quality, yet economical combustion analysis software.

GP Control® is a flexible, comprehensive, fully programmable engine management system for high-performance motorcycles and recreational vehicles. The system supports 4-stroke and 2-stroke engines with from 1 to 4 cylinders. GP Control manages ignition, fuel injection, electronic power valves, power jets, quick shifting, idle air control valves, cooling fans and dash clusters. The system features three map sets that the rider can switch between at will. GP Control can be calibrated with a conventional PC or with a Pocket/PC and provides users with the ability to download new maps via the worldwide web.

From our headquarters located just south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, to our offices in the UK, our team of engine development experts is on hand to help ensure your engine simulations and engine management systems generate OPTIMUM results in your final designs