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Organisation & Objectives

CERTAM is a CRITT (French acronym for Technological Transfer and Innovation Regional Centre). It has been created in 1991 as a spin-off of a CNRS laboratory (CORIA UMR 6614) with the strong support of Upper Normandy, Research and Technology Minister, CNRS, General council of the Seine Maritime Department and European Union.

CERTAM is focused around 3 main objectives :

• Promote a highly skilled research structure in the fields of internal combustion engine and air quality to participate to scientific and economic development of Normandy region.
• Create links between industrials to ensure technologies transfer between academic research and industrial research and development.
• Develop a european technologic and scientific research platform between public and private research groups to potentiate energies on the clean engine and air quality thematic.

Fields of intervention

CERTAM activity gathers advisory and expertise as well as engine testing in our dynamic test cells or on industrial site in the fields of :

• Engine emission characterisation (regulated and unregulated)
• Exhausts post-treatment: DPF, NOx trapping,...
• Fuel/Air mixture preparation
• Internal aerodynamics
• Standard metrology (consommation, T, P, blow-by, stability ...)
• Friction
• Particles metrology (SMPS, ELPI, TEOM, PCS 2010, ...)
• test bench laser diagnostic (PIV, LDA ...)
  
• Air quality.
• Prototypes testing