Pressure Sensor Glow Plug receives Environmental Prize from EUREKA, the European Research Initiative
With the Lillehammer Award, EUREKA honours the joint development project by BERU AG and Sensata Technologies.
(Ludwigsburg, 6 June 2008) During the EUREKA Conference of Ministers in Ljubljana, the BERU Pressure Sensor Glow Plug (PSG), a cooperation project between BERU AG and Sensata Technologies, was distinguished with the EUREKA Lillehammer Award 2008. The handover of the prize by Annelene Svingen, Deputy Minister of the Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry, took place on 5 June 2008 before more than 40 Research Ministers and Secretaries of State as well as numerous representatives from the media in the castle in the capital city of Slovenia. Dr. Arjan Kölling, Development Manager Europe Sensors Division and Gerd Priet, Group Leader Project Man-agement of the Dutch cooperation partner Sensata Technologies, and Dr. Bernd Last, Manager of the Diesel Cold-Start Development De-partment at BERU accepted the award amounting to 10,000 euros and a wood carving by the Norwegian artist Niclas Gulbrandsen during the ceremony.
BERU Innovation for less NOx and CO2 emissions
“The EUREKA Lillehammer Award 2008 once again confirms our innovative ability and makes us very happy”, explains Dr. Thomas Waldhier, Chairman of the Board of BERU AG. "With the PSG, highly efficient combustion processes can be regulated in engines even more precisely. They are therefore the key components for a reduction of NOx and CO2 emissions.“ The intelligent BERU PSG which has already been awarded several prizes supplies the exact and long-term stable pressure signals from the engine combustion chamber which are required for the establishment of a closed loop regulation. It consists of the sturdy heating rod of the BERU ISS Diesel Instant Start System combined with a piezo-resistive sensor, which records the rapidly changing cyclical pressure in the combustion chamber and reports it to the engine control electronics.
Since 1994, EUREKA, the European initiative for market-oriented research and development, has been awarding prizes every year to projects which make a substantial contribution towards sustainable preservation of the environment. The Lillehammer Award was created in the city where the Norwegian presidency was based at that time, whose name it still bears today. EUREKA was founded in 1985 on the instigation of France and Germany. Today, the EU States (except for Bulgaria) as well as Macedonia, Iceland, Israel, Croatia, Monaco, Norway, Russia, San Marino, Switzerland, Serbia, Ukraine, Turkey and the European Commission of the Research Initiative belong to it.
