A Flexible Net Zero Hybrid Power System for Off Highway Applications

珀金斯发动机有限公司，Equipmake和拉夫堡大学之间的合作是设计，开发和展示一种创新的“插入式”预集成，高度可配置的电动混合动力系统，能够使用氢或低碳强度燃料运行，广泛的客户可以很容易地将其并入他们的非公路车辆和机器中。公路车辆和机械制造商缺乏将先进的动力系统集成到其产品中的规模和资源。这限制了英国非道路移动的机械（NRMM）市场中减少碳排放的电力系统的渗透。这将影响工业支持英国政府在建筑和基础设施等工业部门实现净零排放目标的能力。正如先进推进中心的2040年路线图报告所概述的那样，越野车的能源转型将需要多种替代燃料[包括氢和低碳强度燃料]，并结合不同程度的电气化。每种应用的最合适的解决方案将由机器的操作配置文件以及工作现场不同能源的可用性来确定。这些不同的燃料类型中的许多燃料类型在发动机设计上需要显著的差异，并且可以产生影响变速器和机器设计的不同的功率特性。这使得将它们集成到用于执行不同工作功能的数千种机器类型中成为一个巨大的挑战。利用项目合作伙伴的丰富技能，该项目提出，通过动力系统设计和电动混合动力的创新组合，可以实现灵活燃料的插入式更换动力组，大大减少了变革的障碍，并加速了许多非道路移动的机械应用向净零的过渡。

The collaboration between Perkins Engines Company Limited, Equipmake, and Loughborough University is to design, develop and demonstrate an innovative 'drop-in' pre-integrated, highly configurable electric hybrid power system capable of operating using hydrogen or lower carbon intensity fuels that a wide-range of customers can readily incorporate into their off-highway vehicles and machines.Many off-highway vehicle and machine manufacturers lack the scale and resources to integrate advanced power systems into their products. This is limiting the penetration of reduced carbon power systems in the UK Non-Road Mobile Machinery (NRMM) markets. This will impact the ability of industry to support the UK government's targets for net zero in industrial sectors such as construction and infrastructure.As outlined in the Advanced Propulsion Centre's roadmap 2040 report, the energy transition for off road vehicles will require a diverse range of alternative fuels \[including hydrogen and lower-carbon intensity fuels,\] combined with varying degrees of electrification. The most appropriate solution for each application will be determined by the operational profile of the machine, as well as availability of different energy sources at the work site. Many of these different fuel types require significant differences in engine design and can produce different power characteristics which effect transmission and machine design. This makes integrating them into the thousands of machine types used to perform different job functions, a big challenge.Using the vast skills of project partners, this project proposes that through an innovative combination of power system design and electric hybridisation, a flexibly fuelled drop-in replacement powerpack is possible, greatly reducing the barriers to change and accelerating the transition to net zero for many non-road mobile machine applications.