From February 18th to 19th, the 11th International Symposium on Internal Combustion Engine Reliability Technology was held in Jinan, Shandong. As an annual landmark academic exchange event for the global industry, this conference is hosted by the National Key Laboratory of Internal Combustion Engines and Power Systems.

More than 1,000 people from nearly 200 scientific research institutions, universities and well-known enterprises at home and abroad, including AVL Company of Austria, FEV Company of Germany, IAV Company of Germany, Southwest Research Institute of the United States, Bosch Group of Germany, Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Tianjin University, etc. Famous experts, scholars and industry representatives will discuss the development of common key technologies of internal combustion engine reliability through online and offline methods, and jointly promote the technological progress of the global industry and the transformation and upgrading of the industrial chain.

An authoritative event, creating a world-leading industry vane

This conference will set up 1 main venue and 3 sub-venues. Ling Wen, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and chairman of the Shandong Provincial Association for Science and Technology, and Tan Xuguang, director of the National Key Laboratory of Internal Combustion Engines and Power Systems, delivered speeches. More than 40 experts and scholars, including Su Wanhua, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Liu Weimin, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shu Gequn, secretary of the Party Committee of the University of Science and Technology of China, Xu Changming, deputy director of the National Information Center, and Xing Min, executive vice president and secretary-general of the China Internal Combustion Engine Industry Association, focused on " The goal of "double carbon" and the requirements of the high-quality development of the equipment manufacturing industry for the internal combustion engine industry, focusing on the reliability of the entire internal combustion engine, the reliability of key components of the internal combustion engine, and the reliability prediction and evaluation of internal combustion engines to carry out academic exchanges and sharing.

This is an academic feast for the global internal combustion engine industry to communicate, inspire wisdom, and promote progress, and has attracted the attention of all sectors of society and colleagues around the world. The global live broadcast of the conference further connects the "strongest brain" in the global internal combustion engine industry.

Since 2012, the International Symposium on Internal Combustion Engine Reliability Technology has been successfully held for ten sessions, and its influence has continued to increase. It has become an important academic exchange platform and technology development vane for the global internal combustion engine industry. With the help of this platform, more and more universities, scientific research institutions and enterprises at home and abroad have carried out chain innovation around the basic theory of internal combustion engine reliability and key common technologies, which has played an important role in promoting the progress of internal combustion engine reliability technology.

Open and share, bravely undertake the new mission of global power technology

The internal combustion engine is the leading driving force for transportation, construction machinery, agricultural machinery, fishing vessels, and national defense equipment. The internal combustion engine industry is an important basic industry. The reliability of internal combustion engines directly affects the performance and service life of supporting equipment, and profoundly affects the sustainable development of my country's internal combustion engine industry and related industries. Improving the reliability of internal combustion engines is also one of the important ways to help my country achieve the goal of "double carbon".

In 2015, Weichai Power undertook the construction of the only national key laboratory in my country's internal combustion engine industry - the State Key Laboratory of Internal Combustion Engine Reliability. The laboratory has always been committed to overcoming the common key technologies in the field of internal combustion engine reliability, and has cooperated with the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain to carry out technical research to promote the innovation of internal combustion engine reliability technology. Key areas such as forecasting and evaluation have achieved fruitful results, especially the increase in reliability from 1.2 million kilometers to 1.8 million kilometers. Since 2020, Weichai has successively released the world's first commercial diesel engines with body thermal efficiencies of 50.23%, 51.09%, and 52.28%, setting new benchmarks for the thermal efficiency of diesel engines in the world three times, leading my country's internal combustion engine industry to a world-class level.

In November 2022, the National Key Laboratory of Internal Combustion Engine and Power System led by Weichai Power was officially approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology and became one of the first batch of national key laboratories to complete the reorganization. Based on the National Key Laboratory of Internal Combustion Engine Reliability, the laboratory integrates key research forces in related fields, and aims to build a national scientific and technological innovation platform, a high-level talent training base, a source of cutting-edge technology and a strategic scientific and technological force. The high-quality development of the system industry provides cutting-edge technology support. In the future, it will take 5 to 10 years to break through a number of "stuck neck" technologies in the industry. The internal combustion engine and power system technology will fully achieve international leadership. On the basis of the thermal efficiency of the diesel engine body at 52.28%, it will quickly break through 53%, and move towards 56% of the strategic technology Goal forward. The laboratory conducts no less than 100 foreign technical cooperation projects each year, and sets up no less than 30 open projects.

The International Symposium on Internal Combustion Engine Reliability Technology will be hosted by the National Key Laboratory of Internal Combustion Engines and Power Systems starting from this session. At the same time, combined with the newly added research direction of the National Key Laboratory of Internal Combustion Engine and Power System, the "International Symposium on Power System Technology" will be organized in the future to create a new platform for cutting-edge technology exchanges in the power system industry, and give full play to the new platform's integration of "industry-university-research-application" The supporting role of chemical chain and innovation, and strive to create two banners of academic exchanges on internal combustion engine and power system technology.

Tan Xuguang said in his speech at the opening ceremony that high-power diesel engines will never disappear on the earth, and green and low-carbon development has become a global consensus. The internal combustion engine industry needs the leapfrog development of core technologies and cutting-edge The disruptive breakthrough of science and technology requires the integrated innovation of global counterparts. With the concept of openness, sharing, and win-win, we will join hands with colleagues around the world to accelerate the breakthrough of key core technologies and major original technologies, and contribute more to the high-quality development of the global internal combustion engine and power equipment industry.Editor/Ma Xue