What is the function of chemical engineer in automotive design?

Answer 1

Below is a partial list of the function of chemical engineers in automotive design:

1. Thermal management of fuel systems, mainly fuel tank, to reduce fuel temperature and fuel vapor pressure. This requires applications of thermodynamics of fuel mixtures and heat transfer.

2. Selection of appropriate materials to meet the temperature requirements in the vehicle under-hood and under-body.

3. Approve all selected material for mechanical and thermal requirements

4. Evaluation and selection of low weight composite materials for improvement of fuel economy.

5. Application of predictive methods for evaluation of material life under vehicle thermal environment by applying kinetic thermal degradation models.

6. Simulation of fuel combustion for design of internal combustion or diesel engines.

7. Thermal analysis of exhaust system and evaluation of catalyst warm up time, catalytic conversion efficiency, and exhaust surface temperatures.

8. Estimation of component temperature through application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tools.