CAGE Clean Air Gas Engine

CAGE项目（清洁空气燃气发动机）将项目领导者OakTec的燃气发动机开发专业知识与领先的工业合作伙伴Autocraft Drivetrain Solutions（由全球汽车OEM支持）结合在一起。在提供创新生物液化天然气燃料解决方案的Calor/SHV能源公司、工业发动机供应商EP Barrus以及评估和监测空气质量效益的伦敦国王学院（KCL）的进一步支持下，该项目建立在OakTec对高效、低排放工业燃气发动机的五年专门研究的基础上。该项目将奥克特在低排放燃气发动机燃烧和控制方面的知识产权应用于最先进的汽车发动机平台，并优化其性能，以适应建筑行业的一系列工业应用。CAGE产品将集成到非道路移动机械（NRMM）中，通常由建筑和拆除现场的红色柴油发动机提供动力。它的好处将在这些工作环境中得到展示，重点是在专门的低排放区域（如伦敦的超低排放区）使用。该演示将包括由英国OEM萨顿电力工程公司制造的生物液化天然气发电机，为建筑工地的福利小屋提供能源。与柴油发动机相比，天然气燃料固有的低排放优势在氮氧化物和有害微粒的输出方面具有天然优势。然而，与其他类型的发动机相比，柴油发动机在易于使用低成本燃料加油和燃油效率方面具有明显的优势，这使得它们对建筑行业非常有吸引力。CAGE项目完全解决了这些问题，提供了一种具有成本竞争力的超低排放燃气发动机产品，易于加油和具有竞争力的燃料成本。通过利用欧6认证发动机的许多固有优势和技术来解决燃油效率和排放问题，使其具有一流的汽车性能，并引入了奥克特在工业燃气发动机加油，操作控制和燃烧方面的创新，包括消除氮氧化物排放的策略。Calor英国创新团队的平行活动将开发和提供现场加油解决方案，以“母女”系统为基础，为客户量身定制，便于使用，该系统将散装油箱运送到现场，并配有能够安全加油的系统，用于较小的机器专用储罐。这使客户能够以低于柴油的批发价格购买液化石油气，从而使客户受益。通过采用卡洛的新型生物液化天然气产品，二氧化碳排放量可以进一步减少高达80%。欧洲领先的工业发动机供应商EP Barrus正在支持OakTec将其新型燃气发动机产品推向市场，并且在CAGE项目中，将与选定的OEM合作，支持将新型燃气发动机集成到他们的机器中。KCL将根据技术渗透到不同发动机尺寸和机械类型的一系列场景，评估CAGE产品对NRMM车队排放的减排潜力。这将基于NRMM车队位置、活动和测量的真实世界排放因子开发的独特排放清单，并提供从清洁空气角度优化技术设计的机会。

The CAGE project (Clean Air Gas Engine) brings together the gas engine development expertise of project lead OakTec with leading industrial partners Autocraft Drivetrain Solutions supported by a global vehicle OEM. With further support from Calor/SHV Energy, who will provide innovative bioLPG fuelling solutions, industrial engine supplier EP Barrus, and Kings College London (KCL) to assess and monitor air quality benefits, the project builds on five years dedicated research into efficient, low emission industrial gas engines by OakTec. The project applies Oaktec's IP in low emission gas engine combustion and control to the state of the art automotive engine platform, and optimises its performance to suit a range of industrial applications used in the construction industry. The CAGE product will be integrated into Non Road Mobile Machinery (NRMM) typically powered by red diesel engines on construction and demolition sites. Its benefits will be demonstrated in these working environments with a focus on use in dedicated low emission areas such as London's Ultra Low Emission Zone. The demonstration will include a bioLPG generator manufactured by UK OEM Sutton Power Engineering, to provide energy for construction site welfare cabins. The inherent low emission benefits of gas fuels are well documented with natural advantages in output of NOx, and harmful particulates when compared with diesel engines. Diesel engines however have perceived advantages in ease of refuelling with low cost fuel, and fuel efficiency when compared to other engine types, making them very attractive to the construction sector. The CAGE project fully addresses these issues to offer a cost competitive, ultra low emission gas engine product with easy refuelling and competitive fuel costs. Fuel efficiency and emissions are addressed by harnessing the many inherent benefits and technologies in the Euro 6 certified engine that give it class leading automotive performance, and introduces the OakTec innovations in industrial gas engine fuelling, operational control and combustion, including strategies that all but eliminate NOx emissions. Parallel activity by the innovation group at Calor UK will develop and supply on-site fuelling solutions exactly tailored for ease of use by the customer, based on a 'Mother and Daughter' system whereby a bulk tank is delivered to the site with systems to enable safe refuelling to smaller, machine-specific storage tanks. This benefits the customer by enabling purchase at a wholesale LPG cost that is currently lower than red diesel. By adopting Calor's new bioLPG product CO2 emissions can be further reduced by up to 80%. EP Barrus, Europe’s leading supplier of industrial engines, are supporting OakTec in taking their new gas engine products to market, and in the CAGE project will work with selected OEM's to support the integration of the new gas engine into their machines. KCL will assess the emission reduction potential of the CAGE product on NRMM fleet emissions using a range of scenarios based on technology penetration into different engine sizes and machinery types. This will be based on a unique emissions inventory already developed on NRMM fleet location, activity and measured real world emission factors and offers the opportunity to optimise technology design from a clean air perspective.