CAGE Clean Air Gas Engine

CAGE 清洁空气燃气发动机

• 批准号: 971705
• 金额: $ 168.18万
• 依托单位: CAGE TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Small Business Research Initiative
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=971705
• 关键词: CAGE; Clean; Air; Gas; Engine

The CAGE project (Clean Air Gas Engine) brings together the gas engine development expertise of project lead OakTec with leading industrial partners Autocraft Drivetrain Solutions supported by a global vehicle OEM. With further support from Calor/SHV Energy, who will provide innovative bioLPG fuelling solutions, industrial engine supplier EP Barrus, and Kings College London (KCL) to assess and monitor air quality benefits, the project builds on five years dedicated research into efficient, low emission industrial gas engines by OakTec. The project applies Oaktec's IP in low emission gas engine combustion and control to the state of the art automotive engine platform, and optimises its performance to suit a range of industrial applications used in the construction industry. The CAGE product will be integrated into Non Road Mobile Machinery (NRMM) typically powered by red diesel engines on construction and demolition sites. Its benefits will be demonstrated in these working environments with a focus on use in dedicated low emission areas such as London's Ultra Low Emission Zone. The demonstration will include a bioLPG generator manufactured by UK OEM Sutton Power Engineering, to provide energy for construction site welfare cabins. The inherent low emission benefits of gas fuels are well documented with natural advantages in output of NOx, and harmful particulates when compared with diesel engines. Diesel engines however have perceived advantages in ease of refuelling with low cost fuel, and fuel efficiency when compared to other engine types, making them very attractive to the construction sector. The CAGE project fully addresses these issues to offer a cost competitive, ultra low emission gas engine product with easy refuelling and competitive fuel costs. Fuel efficiency and emissions are addressed by harnessing the many inherent benefits and technologies in the Euro 6 certified engine that give it class leading automotive performance, and introduces the OakTec innovations in industrial gas engine fuelling, operational control and combustion, including strategies that all but eliminate NOx emissions. Parallel activity by the innovation group at Calor UK will develop and supply on-site fuelling solutions exactly tailored for ease of use by the customer, based on a 'Mother and Daughter' system whereby a bulk tank is delivered to the site with systems to enable safe refuelling to smaller, machine-specific storage tanks. This benefits the customer by enabling purchase at a wholesale LPG cost that is currently lower than red diesel. By adopting Calor's new bioLPG product CO2 emissions can be further reduced by up to 80%. EP Barrus, Europe’s leading supplier of industrial engines, are supporting OakTec in taking their new gas engine products to market, and in the CAGE project will work with selected OEM's to support the integration of the new gas engine into their machines. KCL will assess the emission reduction potential of the CAGE product on NRMM fleet emissions using a range of scenarios based on technology penetration into different engine sizes and machinery types. This will be based on a unique emissions inventory already developed on NRMM fleet location, activity and measured real world emission factors and offers the opportunity to optimise technology design from a clean air perspective.

CAGE项目(清洁空气燃气发动机)将牵头项目OakTec的燃气发动机开发专业知识与领先的行业合作伙伴AutoCraft Drivetrain Solutions结合在一起，由全球整车OEM提供支持。在提供创新生物液化石油气燃料解决方案的卡洛尔/SHV能源公司、工业发动机供应商EP Barrus和伦敦国王学院(KCL)评估和监测空气质量效益的进一步支持下，该项目建立在OakTec对高效、低排放工业气体发动机五年专门研究的基础上。该项目将Oaktec在低排放燃气发动机燃烧和控制方面的IP应用于最先进的汽车发动机平台，并优化其性能，以适应建筑行业中使用的一系列工业应用。该保持架产品将集成到非道路移动机械(NRMM)中，通常由红色柴油发动机提供动力，用于建筑和拆除工地。它的好处将在这些工作环境中得到展示，重点是在专门的低排放区域使用，如伦敦的超低排放区。演示将包括由英国OEM Sutton Power Engineering制造的生物液化石油气发电机，为建筑工地福利小屋提供能源。气体燃料固有的低排放优势得到了很好的证明，与柴油发动机相比，气体燃料在NOx和有害颗粒物的排放方面具有天然优势。然而，柴油发动机与其他类型的发动机相比，在易于使用低成本燃料和燃油效率方面具有明显的优势，使其对建筑业非常有吸引力。CAGE项目充分解决了这些问题，以提供具有成本竞争力、超低排放、易于加油和具有竞争力的燃料成本的燃气发动机产品。通过利用欧6认证发动机的许多固有优势和技术来解决燃油效率和排放问题，这些优势和技术使其具有领先的汽车性能，并引入了OakTec在工业燃气发动机加油、运行控制和燃烧方面的创新，包括几乎消除NOx排放的战略。英国卡洛尔创新小组的平行活动将开发和提供现场加油解决方案，该解决方案完全根据客户的易用性量身定做，基于一种“母亲和女儿”系统，通过该系统将散装油罐运送到现场，并使用系统使较小的机器专用储油罐能够安全加油。这使客户能够以目前低于红色柴油的批发液化石油气成本进行购买，从而受益。通过采用卡洛尔的新生物液化石油气产品，二氧化碳排放量可进一步减少高达80%。欧洲领先的工业发动机供应商EP Barrus正在支持OakTec将其新的气体发动机产品推向市场，在CAGE项目中，将与选定的OEM合作，支持将新的气体发动机集成到他们的机器中。KCL将根据不同发动机尺寸和机械类型的技术渗透率，使用一系列情景来评估CAGE产品在NRMM机队排放方面的减排潜力。这将基于已经开发的关于NRMM机队位置、活动和测量的真实世界排放系数的独特排放清单，并提供从清洁空气的角度优化技术设计的机会。