OBD Aging
Lean Fuel Cut
About us
Commercial Aging Services, LLC. (CAS) was formed in 2008 with the purpose of commercializing the C-FOCAS© technology developed by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI). The patented system, called C-FOCAS©, is a gasoline-fueled burner with an integrated, computerized control system. C-FOCAS© was designed to realistically simulate the flow of exhaust gas from an engine under a variety of load conditions, allowing full-sized automotive catalyst systems to be rapidly and precisely aged. Unlike an engine, the multi-catalyst C-FOCAS© easily operates at temperatures exceeding 1200°C. The system is capable of running gasoline, diesel, natural gas, or propane fuel and can accurately inject oil or metered poison to simulate engine oil consumption. The C-FOCAS© aging system has been correlated to numerous aging specifications including RAT-A, ZDAKW, SBC and several proprietary OEM cycles. The result has been significant reduction in both overall cycle time and fuel consumption. One North American OEM has enjoyed a reduction of over 1,000,000 gallons of gasoline. For more information about the system please visit our Contact page.
Our services
Development Projects
OBD Targeting
10.22.2012
Accurate measurement of catalyst oxygen storage in the laboratory allows the conditioning of OBD parts to a specific target saving countless hours (dollars)...
Thermocouple Measurement Study
8.1.2011
Temperature measurement at temperatures exceeding 1200? can be challenging. With accuracy and response as our primary drivers we evaluated 6 commonly used thermocouples...
Poison Aging
3.19.2011
To simulate same poison exposure to converter as dyno/vehicle. Identify “trapping /capture” efficiencies of the system for future poison load targeting. A metered injection of...
Customer Aging Correlation
3.9.2010
Correlating to the various customer cycles has become one of our most important activities. Replicating the customer cycle while taking full advantage of the burner makes it easy...