Hydrogen Internal Combustion using Diesel pilot ignition

该项目旨在开发一种替代氢内燃机利用柴油发动机，而不是传统的火花点火发动机。这一创新研究将为氢作为公路运输燃料的低成本使用打开市场。氢燃料汽车的主要市场将是回归基本车辆应用，我们已经为这一领域的车辆建立了一条进入市场的路线，即通过ITM加油系统或BOC和Air产品正在安装的新固定加油站。我们已经生产了5辆全顺型汽车，它们成功地跟踪了氢内燃机，作为氢的可行早期路线，为高效燃料电池提供了市场空间，因为它们具有成本效益。将我们已经开发的技术从火花点火发动机转移到柴油发动机将允许更高的发动机效率，并在返回到基础车辆市场的范围内开辟更广泛的车辆。应该注意的是，截至2011年5月，没有欧洲车辆制造商生产火花点火运输车辆作为一般销售车辆，因此，我们必须设计一种方法来运行基于柴油的内燃机，以继续发展基于氢的运输经济。

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.