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Environment Protection Centre (COŚ) - operating as a department, conducts scientific research work concerning environmental protection against harmful effects of the pollutions caused by the road transport. Tasks of the department are as follows:
- developing and testing of devices, methods and systems reducing pollutant emissions from vehicles and their engines;
- development of testing methods for measurement of pollutant emissions and fuel consumption in the road vehicles and their engines;
- compiling rules and procedures of controlling road vehicles and their engines with regard to their emissions and fuel consumption;
- controlling road vehicles and their engines for complying with the requirements set out by the regulations for pollutant emissions and fuel consumption, and particularly conducting type-approval tests and production conformity control for vehicles and equipment in accordance with UN ECE regulations and EU Directives;
- engine bench testing in stationary and transient cycles;
- chassis dynamometer testing of the light duty vehicles and motorcycles in ambient and low temperatures;
- developing methods of determining emission indicators from the road vehicles, as well as monitoring these emissions on a micro and macro scale;
- monitoring of carbon dioxide emission from new motor vehicles;
- making analyses, listings and reports on Poland’s meeting the international agreements on the environmental protection and referring to the road transport;
- co-operation with the domestic and international entities on protecting the environment against harmful effects of the road transport.
- conducting of the type approval of non road mobile machineries in accordance with Directive 97/68/EC and its subsequent amendments;
- measurement of fuel consumption for city buses in SORT tests;
- type approval testing of vehicle hydrogen installations;
- testing of heating and air conditioning systems of a medical ambulance in accordance with EN 1789 standard;
- engine and vehicle testing of biofuels and alternative fuels;
- assessment of biofuel potentials;
- work studies on perspectives of motorization progress;
- measurement of the emissions in real road conditions.
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