H2 Internal Combustion Engine for Light Commercial Vehicles

在推动净零排放的过程中，氢的使用可以在英国未来的交通运输中发挥重要作用。虽然大多数关于使用氢作为车辆燃料的工作都集中在燃料电池上，但在传统内燃机中使用氢作为燃料是有潜力的，这是确保零排放电动汽车在LCV市场快速渗透的一种手段。在英国有一个大型基础设施，专门用于生产，维修和回收内燃机。如果这些设施能够重新用于生产氢动力的零排放内燃机，这将对英国产生重大利益。然而，在实现这一目标之前，还需要克服氢基础设施、发动机和车辆技术方面的重大挑战。该项目无法解决所有这些问题，但目标是提出具有成本效益的优化解决方案，以解决与调整内燃机以氢运行并成为零排放发动机相关的一些基本问题。该项目汇集了学术机构，中小型企业，大型工程咨询公司，一级零部件供应商和一家专门从事轻型商用车制造的大型OEM。该项目的重点将是证明氢内燃机可以作为现有柴油动力系统的可行替代品用于轻型商用车。该项目将分两个阶段进行，第一阶段建立在Brunel大学和Mahle Powertrain在运行氢动力发动机方面的经验基础上，以确定在内燃机中运行氢动力发动机可能面临的挑战和问题。布鲁内尔大学生成的数据将被牛津布鲁克斯大学用于开发CAE工具集，该工具集将允许该联盟模拟气缸内的氢气燃烧和排放。在第二阶段，使用第一阶段开发的工具和知识，该联盟将设计和制造几种单缸发动机，然后在布鲁内尔进行测试。希望这些发动机将解决与氢内燃机相关的大多数问题。希望该项目将成为将多缸氢动力内燃机投入生产的更大项目的基础。

In the drive to Net Zero the use of Hydrogen can play an important role in future UK transport. Whilst the majority of work looking at using hydrogen as a fuel for vehicles has been focused on fuel cell there is the potential to use hydrogen as fuel within a conventional internal combustion engine as a means of ensuring rapid market penetration of a ZEV in the LCV market.There is a large infrastructure in the UK dedicated to producing, servicing and recycling Internal Combustion Engines. It would be of significant benefit to the UK if these facilities could be repurposed to produce net zero internal combustion engines powered by hydrogen.However, there are significant hydrogen infrastructure, engine and vehicle technical challenges which would also need to be overcome before this could become reality. This project cannot address all these issues but is targeting coming up with cost effective optimised solutions to some of the fundamental issues associated with adapting an internal combustion engine to run on Hydrogen and be a zero emission engine.The project brings together a consortium of academic institutions, small and medium enterprises, large engineering consultancies, tier 1 part suppliers and a large OEM who specialises in the manufacture of light commercial vehicles. The focus of the project will be demonstrating that a Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engine can be a viable alternative to the existing diesel powertrain for use in a Light Commercial Vehicle.The project will run in two phases, the first building on Brunel University and Mahle Powertrain's experience in running hydrogen powered engines to define the likely challenges and issues associated with running Hydrogen in an Internal Combustion Engine. The data generated by Brunel University will be used by Oxford Brookes University to develop a CAE tool set which will allow the consortium to simulate in cylinder hydrogen combustion and emissions.In Phase 2 using the tools and knowledge developed in Phase 1 the consortium will then design and manufacture several options for of single cylinder engine which will then be tested at Brunel. It is hoped that these engines will address the majority of issues associated with Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engines.It is hoped that this project will form the basis of a larger project to put the multi cylinder hydrogen powered combustion engine into production.