Hydrogen Internal Combustion using Diesel pilot ignition

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The project aims to develop an alternative Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engine utilising theDiesel engine rather than the conventional Spark ignition engine. This innovative researchwill open the market for low cost use of Hydrogen as a road transport fuel.The main market place for Hydrogen fuelled vehicles will be in the return to base vehicleapplication, and we have already established a route to market for vehicles in this sector viathe ITM refuelling system or the new fixed re-fuelling stations being installed by BOC andAir products. We have already produced 5 Transit type vehicles which have successfullytrailed Hydrogen internal combustion engines as a viable early route for Hydrogen offering amarket place for the highly efficient fuel cells as they become cost effective. Moving thetechnology we have developed from the Spark ignition engine to the Diesel engine will allowgreater engine efficiencies and open up a much wider range of vehicles within the return tobase vehicle market. It should be noted that as of May 2011 no European vehiclemanufacturer produces a spark ignition delivery vehicle as a general sale vehicle, thus it isessential that we devise a method to operate the Diesel based internal combustion engines onHydrogen to continue to develop the Hydrogen based transport economy.