HydroMAR-E - Hydrogen Monofuel Advanced Recuperated Engine

HydroMAR-E将开发一种单燃料氢版本的再生分离循环发动机。这种高度创新的热机可用于陆地和海上的一系列重型应用。它具有非常高的效率（与PEM燃料电池竞争），非常低的排放（带有后处理的SULEV），并且易于转换（现有的ICE制造和安装要求；适度的资本成本增加）。与标准内燃机不同的是，RSCE已经证明了在同一核心发动机中使用柴油、甲烷和氢气的能力（也有可能与氨或甲醇相同），具有同样的高效率和低排放，能够随着未来燃料的广泛使用而快速过渡。HydroMAR-E将使用实验室单缸发动机，该发动机已经演示了启动和运行，以开发这种火花引导系统到TRL4。将设计和制造一个多缸原型，为未来在海洋（和其他）环境中的开发和应用演示做好准备。配套工作将开发一个改进的回热器系统，并审查海运、安装、船舶系统和监管方面的问题。该项目汇集了技术开发商Dolphin N2（依维柯集团的一部分，全球100-600kW范围的船用发动机供应商），布莱顿大学（英国APC的热推进效率系统），领先的船舶建筑公司BMT和回热器技术开发商Hiflux。

HydroMAR-E will develop a mono-fuel Hydrogen version of the Recuperated Split Cycle Engine. This highly innovative thermal engine can be used in a range of heavy duty applications for land and sea. It offers very high efficiency (competitive with a PEM fuel cell), very low emissions (SULEV with aftertreatment), and ease of transition (existing ICE manufacture and installation requirements; moderate capital cost increase). Uniquely, and unlike a standard ICE, the RSCE has demonstrated ability to use Diesel, Methane and Hydrogen in the same core engine (and has potential for the same with Ammonia or Methanol) with the same high efficiency and low emissions, enabling a rapid transition as future fuels become more widely available.HydroMAR-E will use a laboratory single cylinder engine, which has already demonstrated starting and running, to develop this spark-guided system to TRL4. A multi-cylinder prototype will be designed and built in readiness for future development and application demonstration in marine (and other) environments. Supporting work will develop an improved recuperator system, and review marinization, installation, vessel systems and regulatory aspects.The project brings together the technology developer Dolphin N2 (Part of the Iveco Group, a global supplier of marine engines in the 100-600kW range), Brighton University (the UK APC's Thermal Propulsion Efficiency spoke), leading marine architects BMT, and recuperator technology developer Hiflux.