Franchek, Matthew A.2014-11-212014-11-21August 2012012-08http://hdl.handle.net/10657/776Diesel vehicles are continually being regulated each year by tighter restrictions on exhaust emissions. Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) form one of the more difficult emissions to control. Urea based selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of NOx emissions is an evolving technology that has seen widespread implementation on over the road vehicles. However, this technology requires an on-board reductant to function properly. Hydrocarbon based SCR (HC-SCR) technology eliminates the need for an additional on-board liquid by using diesel fuel as the reductant. A review of aftertreatment systems including HC-SCR is provided in this work. This review is followed by an experimental investigation of an HC-SCR aftertreatment system fitted to a marine diesel engine. A model of the HC-SCR outlet NOx concentration is developed and validated for several operating conditions. A sensitivity analysis of the model parameters is performed, demonstrating the most influential model parameters. A controller is successfully implemented in simulation and in the laboratory environment.application/pdfengThe author of this work is the copyright owner. UH Libraries and the Texas Digital Library have their permission to store and provide access to this work. Further transmission, reproduction, or presentation of this work is prohibited except with permission of the author(s).HC-SCRHydrocarbon selective catalytic reductionSelective catalytic reduction (SCR)Diesel exhaustDieselSelective catalytic reduction (SCR)ModelingControlsOptimizationMechanical engineering2014-11-21Thesisborn digital