Facilities:
Ford Environmental Wind Tunnel
Facilities: Ford Environmental Wind Tunnel
The Ford Australia node of ACART is located at the Ford Proving Ground in Lara, Victoria. It includes two major facilities for vehicle testing: an Emissions Test Cell and an Environmental Wind Tunnel.
Both facilities are certified to ISO 9000 and ISO 14000.
The new Environmental Wind Tunnel is located very close to the Emissions Lab. The team has a long track record in HVAC, both for internal Ford customers as well as for external customers from Australia and overseas. The facility is the most powerful wind tunnel in the southern hemisphere. This high tech facility provides the automotive, off-road and military sectors a controlled and repeatable environment to develop products suitable for all global markets.
It will be correlated with other Ford Wind Tunnels as well as with real world road testing.
The new Wind Tunnel facilities capabilities:
- Top speed: 250 km/h
- Temperature between -40°C and +55°C
- Temperature stability ±0.25°C
- Humidity stability ±2% relative humidity
- Nozzle sizes 4m2 and 2.7m2
- Solar simulation
- Operating range 600 10 - 1200W/m2
- Irradiation area 6m by 2.5m
- Irradiation uniformity ±5% with irradiation area
- Full spectrum with UV-B filters
- Diurnal movement system
- Cirrus 48" 450kW Four Wheel Drive Dynamometer:
- Wheelbase between 2.3m and 4.75m
- Maximum vehicles size 2.6m tall and 2.7m wide
- Max. load per axle is 4500kg
- Inertia between 453kg and 10886kg
- 2 independent soak chambers with the same temperature range for cold crank and/or cold start testing
- Vehicle workshop with hoist
- ATI Vision data recording and powertrain calibration tool
- DiagRa MCD for On Board Diagnose and powertrain calibration
- Security controlled access
Contact
For further information on the Ford Wind Tunnel node please contact:
Mr Bob Tilbury
Test Operations Manager
Product Development
Ford Australia
T: +61 3 5279 5598
M: +61 413 382 156
E: btilbury@ford.com
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