Dearman Engine Company: Proof of Market in Leeds

迪尔曼发动机公司(DEC)正在利用液态空气在全球范围内提供更清洁(零排放)和更便宜的运输和制冷。迪尔曼发动机(DE)是一种新型活塞式发动机，由液态空气(LA)膨胀提供动力；排气是清洁的冷空气。我们是一种添加剂，使技术具有许多应用-制冷、废热回收和零排放车辆。DE简单，建造成本低，所需维护费用非常低，对环境的影响很小；提供燃料和成本节约；满足社会目标并利用可再生能源。由于许多国家都有过剩的液氮生产能力，已经有了基本的燃料供应基础设施。例如，英国有足够的闲置产能供应超过15,000辆冷藏送货卡车(约.英国舰队的10%)。独立的经济模型表明，DE的运行成本比柴油低，而且在不到一年的运行时间内就可以收回成本。到2025年，在重型汽车上采用LA技术可以为英国节省13亿升柴油和100多万吨碳。我们建议对利兹这一单一地区进行详细的市场研究，以模拟并确定在城市层面部署远程教育应用的市场潜力。我们还将考虑在一个加油点进行多次使用的影响，以及车队应用和车辆类型的最佳组合，以提供最大的经济价值(直接的，例如柴油节省和间接的，例如通过改善空气质量而产生的NHS成本)，以及来自一个加油站的环境/空气质量影响。洛杉矶系统层面的观点可能会在经济回报、资本使用、环境或其他方面释放更大的综合效益。这项研究将为利兹的战略规划提供信息，为DEC提供明确的影响、规划和投资决策，改进集成LA系统的案例商业案例，并对更广泛的增长的LA市场具有商业价值。

The Dearman Engine Company (DEC) is harnessing liquid air to deliver cleaner (zeroemission) and cheaper transport and refrigeration globally. The Dearman engine (DE) is anovel piston engine powered by the expansion of liquid air (LA); the exhaust is clean, coldair. We are an additive enabling technology with a number of applications - refrigeration,waste heat recovery and zero emission vehicles. The DE is simple, cheap to build, requiresvery low maintenance and has low environmental impact; providing fuel and cost savings;meeting societal objectives and harnessing renewable energy. Since there is surplus liquidnitrogen production capacity in many countries, a skeleton fuel supply infrastructure alreadyexists. The UK, for example, has enough spare capacity to supply more than 15,000refrigerated delivery trucks (approx. 10% of UK fleet). Independent economic modelingshows that the DE is cheaper to run than diesel, and can pay for itself in less than 1 yr ofoperation. The adoption of LA technologies in heavy-duty vehicles could save Britain 1.3billion litres of diesel and over a million tonnes of carbon by 2025. We propose to undertake adetailed market study for a single region –Leeds – to model and establish the market potentialfor the deployment of DE applications at city level. We will also consider the impact ofmultiple application from one fuelling point and the optimum mix of fleet applications andvehicle types to deliver maximum economic value (direct e.g. diesel savings and indirect e.g.NHS cost by improved air quality) and environmental / air quality impact from one fuellingdepot. A LA system level view may unlock greater combined benefits in economic returns,use of capital, environmental or other terms. This study will inform the strategic plan forLeeds with clear impacts, planning and investment decisions for DEC, improve the casebusiness case for integrated LA systems and be commercially valuable to the wider growingLA market.