Zero Emission Diesel Engine Replacement Drive Train

交通部长宣布了到2040年将所有柴油火车从轨道上移除的雄心。这给英国铁路网络带来了技术挑战，在英国，2万英里的铁路网络中，只有42%是电气化的，用于客运机车的柴油多单元（dmu）。在过去的五年里，蒸汽学一直在开发创新的氢基零排放蒸汽动力涡轮机。十多年来，技术团队一直在研究过热蒸汽工程。继蒸汽轮机驱动汽车的世界陆地速度记录项目成功之后，当务之急是开发一种清洁、新型能量密集的氢氧燃料蒸汽装置，用于商业应用。可持续创新基金：SBRI第一阶段将使这项技术能够应用于特定的竞赛主题：加速向低碳交通的转变。零排放柴油发动机替代传动系统将为158级DMU提供全尺寸运行~300kW的柴油发动机替代传动系统，在驱动测力计的测试单元中演示典型的在职工作循环。蒸汽轮机和传动装置将被设计安装在车辆上，在第二阶段之后的网络中，蒸汽学的合作伙伴拥有英国约34%的客运车辆以及全球传动装置供应商。通过将柴油发动机替换为认证的零排放直接传动系统和燃油系统，支持DMU的重新牵引。对气候变化的影响可以通过减少柴油燃料使用所消除的二氧化碳排放直接记录下来。Steamology蒸汽发生器正在申请专利。封闭系统无排放，在可重复的循环中不产生碳、硫、氮氧化物或颗粒排放。汽轮机紧凑，坚固可靠，运动部件少，适用于铁路行业的积极占空比。蒸汽学采用“从摇篮到摇篮”的方法。这意味着不使用稀土或有毒材料或奇异的制造工艺来设计和制造简单，服务，维护和长寿命的产品。在英国铁路行业高度监管的环境中展示一台~300kW的蒸汽轮机，将为~3700台英国DMU提供一个极好的营销机会，更广泛地为全球80多个国家运行的~ 14000台DMU提供机会。蒸汽学将探索更广泛的零排放动力涡轮机应用；铁路货运、海运、重型运输和静态工业动力应用。

The Minister for Transport has announced the ambition to remove all diesel only trains off the track by 2040\. This presents technical challenges to the UK rail network, where only ~42% of the 20,000-mile network is electrified, for passenger locomotive Diesel Multiple Units (DMUs). For the last five years Steamology have been developing innovative hydrogen based zero emission steam power turbines. For over a decade the technical team have been working with superheated steam engineering. Following a successful world land speed record project for a steam turbine driven car the priority has been the development of a clean, novel energy dense hydrogen and oxygen fuelled steam unit for commercial applications. The Sustainable Innovation Fund: SBRI phase1 will enable the application of this technology to the specific competition theme: accelerating the shift to low carbon transport. The Zero Emission Diesel Engine Replacement Drive Train will deliver a full scale operational ~300kW diesel engine replacement drive train for a Class 158 DMU demonstrating a typical in-service duty cycle in a test cell driving a Dynamometer. The steam turbine and transmission will be designed to be installed, on vehicle, on network following phase2 Steamology have partners in place owning ~34% of the UK's passenger rolling stock as well as a global supplier of transmissions. Support is in place to re-traction a DMU by replacing the diesel engine with a certified zero emission direct drive train and fuel system. The impact on climate change can be directly recorded by carbon dioxide emissions removed by the reduction in diesel fuel use. The Steamology steam generators are patent pending. The closed system is emission free, producing no Carbon, Sulphur, NOX or particulate emissions in a repeatable cycle. Steam turbines are compact, robust and reliable with few moving parts, suitable for the aggressive duty cycle of the railway industry. Steamology adopt a 'Cradle to Cradle' approach. This means not using rare earth or toxic materials or exotic manufacturing processes designing and engineering products with simple, service, maintenance and long-life. Demonstrating a ~300kW steam turbine in the highly regulated setting of the UK rail industry will provide an excellent marketing opportunity to the ~3700 UK DMU's and more widely to the Worldwide ~14,000DMU's in operation in more than 80 countries. Steamology will explore wider zero emission power turbine applications in; rail freight marine, heavy haulage and static industrial power applications.