Tenneco’s Advanced Technology Portfolio Addressing Current Industry Trends, Driving Future Growth
DETROIT--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Tenneco Inc. (NYSE:TEN) is showcasing its portfolio of advanced Ride
Performance and Clean Air technologies at a private exhibit for
customers and media during the 2018 North American International Auto
Show in Detroit, Mich. The exhibit will include the global debut of the
company’s Emissions Evolution concept, showcasing a range of
products and capabilities that address future trends in emission
regulations, improved fuel economy, and increased vehicle hybridization.
Also featured in the exhibit will be the Monroe® Intelligent
Suspension family of products, including the latest CVSA2/Kinetic®
system and DRiV™ digital adaptive damper.
“Tenneco is leveraging its capabilities to create products that support
our customer’s current needs while developing solutions that anticipate
and respond to future industry trends,” said Brian Kesseler, chief
executive officer, Tenneco. “Whether it is tightening global emissions
regulations, the need for advanced suspensions, or electrification that
presents NVH and acoustic challenges and additional content on hybrid
vehicles, we have the solutions in development today to capture these
opportunities.”
Tenneco will display the following technologies during NAIAS:
Clean Air
Emissions Evolution: A display that showcases a range of
components, systems and design capabilities to meet increasingly
stringent emission regulations, customer demand for improved fuel
economy, and the evolving powertrain trend toward vehicle hybridization.
Beginning with today’s production light-vehicle system, active E-valves
and a Gasoline Particulate Filter (GPF) are added to help meet Euro 6C
and 6D requirements, and enhance fuel economy and engine performance.
As customers move into hybrid powertrains, Tenneco’s design and
packaging expertise is showcased in a new Compact Emissions Module
Concept, designed to meet the specific packaging constraints of
hybrid powertrains, while exceeding all performance, durability and
emissions targets.
Beyond Euro 6: Tenneco’s innovative concept with a suite of
technologies that enhance traditional emission control elements,
designed to meet reduced NOx targets as well as the desire for higher
efficiency in the combustion process. The Beyond Euro 6 concept includes
three distinct technologies: CleanEGR™ , which introduces a
coated GPF into the EGR route to reduce criteria pollutants at mid and
high-loads and during cold start to better enable RDE compliance; Exhaust
Gas Heat Recovery System, which produces fuel economy improvement by
harvesting lost heat for better engine warm-up and cabin heating; and Smart
Sound™, a speaker-based system for exhaust tuning and active noise
cancellation and sound generation. It also offers packaging benefits
with a reduced muffler size.
Ride Performance
DRiV™: Part of the Monroe® Intelligent Suspension family of
products, DRiV™ technology features a unique digital damper architecture
with electronics, sensors and software controls located directly in the
damper, allowing the system to read and react to road inputs quickly
with the selection of discreet force settings. The DRiV™ system also
incorporates a simplified gateway module, which provides cybersecurity
and communication with the vehicle’s existing Controller Area Network
(CAN) bus. This distinctive construction makes the DRiV™ technology easy
to integrate into the existing suspension without extensive
re-engineering of the vehicle’s mechanical and electrical systems.
CVSA2/Kinetic®: Tenneco’s Continuously Variable Semi-Active (2
valve) with optional roll control technology or CVSA2/Kinetic® system,
is a two-valve damping system featuring hydraulic roll control that
eliminates the need for front and rear mechanical anti-roll bars,
reducing overall vehicle weight and consuming no additional energy.
Designed for use in high-performance sports cars and SUVs, the
CVSA2/Kinetic technology allows drivers to choose from
performance-oriented and comfort-oriented driving modes.
Lightweight Strut Concept: Tenneco’s design features a steel base
using variable wall thickness, a hollow rod, and plastic for several
add-on and modular components. All of this enables weight reduction of
up to 20-25 percent compared with traditional struts, without
sacrificing strength or functionality.
CVSAe: Part of the Monroe® Intelligent Suspension
portfolio, CVSAe is designed to adjust to changing road conditions in
real time, continuously sensing the road and driving conditions and
adjusting the damper within milliseconds, offering enhanced ride comfort
with outstanding dynamic response. CVSAe utilizes an externally mounted
electronic valve that independently adjusts the damper’s compression
performance in real time for a more comfortable and controlled ride.
Scalable Architecture: Tenneco’s “Scalable Architecture” concept
for advanced electronic suspension technologies uses intelligent
actuator constructions to easily scale semi-active suspension systems up
to advanced and fully-active applications. Using the Scalable
Architecture concept, platforms already equipped with CVSA2 can be
easily upgraded with Kinetic® as an option. The actuator constructions
share components, production processes, sensors and ECUs.
Tenneco is an $8.6 billion global manufacturing company with
headquarters in Lake Forest, Illinois and approximately 31,000 employees
worldwide.Tenneco is one of the world’s largest designers,
manufacturers and marketers of ride performance and clean air products
and systems for automotive and commercial vehicle original equipment
markets and the aftermarket.Tenneco’s principal brand names are
Monroe®, Walker®, XNOx® and Clevite®Elastomers.
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Media contact:
Tenneco Global Communications
Bill
Dawson, 224.280.4308
Bdawson@tenneco.com
Source: Tenneco Inc.