Solutions to the clean snowmobile challenge - What works?

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Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

10-24-2005

Department

Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics

Abstract

The Society of Automotive Engineers' (SAE) Clean Snowmobile Challenge 2004 (CSC 2004) was held at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan, from March 15 - 20, 2004. The Clean Snowmobile Challenge has been a competition in the SAE Collegiate Design Series since 2000, and began in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, as a response to rising concerns about snowmobiling in environmentally-sensitive areas. Teams from fifteen universities competed in CSC 2004. The winning snowmobile (sled) was developed by the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and featured a four-stroke engine with electronic fuel injection (EFI), a two-stage tuned muffler, and catalytic exhaust aftertreatment. A hybrid-electric design was used to increase the snowmobile's powertrain output and improve acceleration. [8] Teams should be competitive in all events to gain enough points to win the competition. The most successful design strategies included use of a four-stroke engine, electronic fuel injection, exhaust catalysts, and various versions of acoustic foam insulation or other sound-damping material.

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Copyright © 2005 SAE International. Publisher’s version of record: https://doi.org/10.4271/2005-01-3681

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SAE Technical Papers

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