Climatic Wind Tunnel, CWTone

Testing in territory performance without the travel

This world-class facility provides the motor industry with the opportunity of conducting research, emissions analysis, environmental tests and product development of vehicles and components, in the full range of global climatic conditions:

• Summer testing in winter and winter testing in summer helps to reduce development cycle time
• Reduce the need for extensive overseas testing in desert and arctic regions
• Repeatable, quantitative environmental results can be conducted
• Allows enhancement of internal environmental comfort and driveability of vehicles to reduce driver fatigue and accident rate
• Design vehicles that are safe and economical in all conditions
• Provide a better understanding of material properties and component life cycles
• Promote research on fuel economy within the constraints of new exhaust and emissions regulations
• Allow emissions analysis and optimisation through a range of temperatures

Typical environmental applications for the Climatic Wind Tunnel are:

• Engine cooling performance
• Air conditioning system development
• Hot fuel handling tests
• Analysis of city drive cycles
• Hot & cold emissions testing
• EURO, US Federal & rest of world emissions testing
• Heater-system development
• Cold-start and drive away tests
• Demist/defrost efficiency
• Vehicle HVAC benchmarking
• US Federal Supplimentary emissions procedures