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From IC to EV: challenges, pitfalls and opportunities
EIS Instrumentation, Analysis & Testing Exhibition, Silverstone Race Circuit, 14 September, 10.00am to 4.00pm
T
he autumn exhibition season gets back into swing this September after last year’s absences due to the pandemic.
In the middle of the month, The Engineering Integrity Society (EIS) will be holding its an- nual show later in the year than its custom- ary spring event, which will be taking place at Silverstone once more. This year, the theme of the Instrumenta- tion, Analysis and Testing show will be “The Journey from IC to EVs: Challenges, Pitfalls and Opportunities”. With a global emphasis being placed on decarbonising road trans- port, the UK has its own government-led goals as well as a very well established au- tomotive engineering community that wants to lead the way globally in the charge to- wards electrification. This expertise isn’t only in tech- nology innovation, but also in de- velopment and testing, an area of automotive engineering that’s under significant focus and will certainly be under the spotlight at the EIS event this year. So far this year, 60 ex-
hibitors have registered, covering a wide range of industries including auto- motive, aerospace, rail and power engineering.
Amongst the exhibitors are experts in in- strumentation, measurement technology and modelling and simulation. Companies represented at the event in- clude Dewesoft, Data Physics, HBK, Kistler Instruments, PCB Piezoelectronics, Cen- traTEQ, Spectral Dynamics and many others. A popular section of the event is its mini-
seminar series, which includes four speak- ers covering the challenges arising from moving from a transport environment dom- inated by internal combustion (IC) engines to electric vehicles (EV). DS&I
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decarbonisation
Road vehicles aren’t the only mode of transport facing an all-elec- tric future and Britain’s railways have long been implementing their electrification strategy. Nonetheless, large sections of the network have yet to be electrified and so many railway vehicles are dependent on diesel for
traction power with associated carbon and air quality challenges. As part of his mini-seminar presentation, Rory Dickerson of Network Rail will explain how there are many alternatives to conventional diesel traction on the journey to passenger, freight and maintenance decarbonisation including electric, hybrid, battery and hy-
drogen fuel cell trains. The remnants of diesel power still on the UK rail network today are due to the large variety of use cases in the railway industry. This variety means that there is no single ideal approach to decarbonisation but rather a mix of perma- nent and transitional approaches, according to Dickerson. Earlier this year, Network Rail signed the International Union of Railways (UIC) climate declaration and com- mitted to its “science-based target” initiative, in line with the UN framework.
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