iFuelActive-PRO: A smart aftermarket in-tank fuel solution to supply the cleanest fuel possible to diesel engines with onboard fuel quality monitoring capabilities and machine-learning powered predictive maintenance.

iFuelActive-PRO：一种智能售后罐内燃油解决方案，可为柴油发动机提供最清洁的燃油，具有机载燃油质量监控功能和机器学习驱动的预测性维护。

• 批准号: 10035317
• 金额: $ 44.48万
• 依托单位: FUEL ACTIVE LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10035317
• 关键词: iFuelActive; PRO; smart; aftermarket; tank

Diesel fuel becomes contaminated from water, bacteria and/or particulates settling to the bottom of fuel tanks. Fuel contamination leads to engine damage, machine downtime and reduced productivity; particularly in construction, road haulage and mining sectors.FuelActive has achieved demonstrable success in the fuel solutions market through developing innovative fuel-delivery and monitoring systems that prevent breakdowns with two products currently:* **FuelActive:** Floating fuel-extraction pipe delivering the cleanest fuel, mitigating injector damage, engine failure, reduced fuel economy and worse emissions* **iFuelActive:** Smart fuel-extraction unit utilising in-tank sensors/telemetry to remotely monitor fuel-qualityThis project will develop the iFuelActive-PRO through development of a bespoke-pcb module which will confirm the relationship between fuel-quality/engine-performance/emissions, while offering customers predictive maintenance using machine-learning techniques.Currently, fuel pick-ups fulfil a single function; to extract fuel and are static devices, resulting in exposure to contamination at the bottom of the tank. iFuelActive-PRO will combine a dynamic fuel pick-up with a fuel-sender to extract the cleanest fuel, preventing contaminants entering the system; with on-board fuel-quality monitoring. Real-time fuel temperature, quality, pressure and flow-analysis information will enable remote diagnostics, predictive maintenance and improve fuel-stock management (on-site and multiple vehicles). ECU integration provides benchmarks for fuel consumption, diagnostic alerts, engine performance, vehicle utilisation, route-planning, improved driver behaviour (over-revving, heavy-acceleration, harsh-braking, aggressive cornering, idling) and fuel/vehicle theft.FuelActive has been proven to supply cleaner fuel, exhibiting zero failures post-installation, servicing the aftermarket demand and, potentially with OEM-integrated solutions. FuelActive is ideally positioned through existing relationships with large transport, construction and agriculture vehicle operators and manufacturers.Governments will encourage alternative technologies to diesel usage to reduce emissions, but diesel is widely used \[EnergyRep.2021\] and demand is expected at current levels globally until 2045, due to industrialisation \[Statista,2021\]. Operators are seeking to reduce maintenance/downtime and emissions, increase fuel efficiency, and generate cost-savings in multiple sectors.Large inefficient diesel engines combined with high annual mileage accounts for 39% of the transport sector's CO2/NOx emissions (~5% of fossil-fuels) globally \[IDTechEx,2020\]. iFuelActive-PRO provides an immediate response for COP26, with ~5% CO2/NOx reduction; effectively removing 1/20 existing vehicles if adopted at-scale.iFuelActive-PRO supports the UK's ambition of Net-Zero CO2 emissions by 2050, improving fuel efficiency, providing a "transition technology" for a lower-carbon economy and tackling roadside concentrations and nutrient imbalances in coastal waters/river-basins \[EPA,2018\]. iFuelActive-PRO supports new diesel regulatory standards that are becoming increasingly stringent for cleaner fuel (Stage5/Euro6/Euro7). UK-registered HGVs consume ~6.2mt/year of fuel \[ONS,2020\];~10.5mtCO2e/year \[~400gCO2e/km; UKGov,2021\].

柴油会受到水、细菌和/或悬浮在燃料箱底部的微粒的污染。燃料污染导致发动机损坏、机器停机和生产率下降；特别是在建筑、公路运输和采矿部门。FuelActive通过开发创新的燃料输送和监控系统，防止目前两种产品的故障，在燃料解决方案市场上取得了明显的成功：**FuelActive：**浮动燃料提取管道提供最清洁的燃料，减轻喷油器损坏、发动机故障、降低燃油经济性和更糟糕的排放*iFuelActive：**智能燃料提取单元利用油箱内传感器/遥测来远程监控燃料质量该项目将通过开发一个定制的印刷电路板模块来开发iFuelActive-PRO，该模块将确认燃料质量/发动机性能/排放之间的关系，同时使用机器学习技术为客户提供预测性维护。目前，燃料皮卡实现的功能单一；抽出燃料的油箱都是静态装置，导致油箱底部受到污染。IFuelActive-PRO将动态燃料拾取器与燃料发送器相结合，以提取最清洁的燃料，防止污染物进入系统；以及车载燃料质量监控。实时的燃料温度、质量、压力和流量分析信息将实现远程诊断、预测性维护和改进燃料库存管理(现场和多辆车)。ECU集成为油耗、诊断警报、发动机性能、车辆利用率、路线规划、改善的驾驶员行为(超速、重加速、恶劣刹车、侵略性转弯、怠速)和燃料/车辆盗窃提供基准。FuelActive已被证明提供更清洁的燃料，在安装后表现出零故障，服务于售后市场需求，并可能与OEM集成解决方案一起使用。通过与大型运输、建筑和农业车辆运营商和制造商的现有关系，FuelActive处于理想的地位。政府将鼓励使用柴油的替代技术来减少排放，但柴油被广泛使用\[EnergyRep.2021\]，由于工业化\[Statista，2021\]，预计到2045年全球需求将保持在当前水平。运营商正在寻求减少维护/停机时间和排放，提高燃油效率，并在多个部门节省成本。大型低效柴油发动机加上高年里程数占全球运输业二氧化碳/NOx排放量的39%(约占化石燃料的5%)[IDTechEx，2020]。IFuelActive-PRO为COP26提供即时响应，二氧化碳/NOx减少约5%；如果规模化采用，有效减少现有车辆的1/20。iFuelActive-PRO支持英国到2050年实现净零二氧化碳排放的雄心，提高燃油效率，为低碳经济提供“过渡技术”，并解决沿海水域/河流流域的路边浓度和养分失衡问题\[EPA，2018\]。IFuelActive-PRO支持新的柴油监管标准，这些标准对清洁燃料(阶段5/欧洲6/欧洲7)越来越严格。在英国注册的HGV每年消耗约620万吨燃料[英国国家统计局，2020年]；约10.5百万吨二氧化碳/年[~400gCO2/公里；英国政府，2021年]。