Sustainable Heavy Duty Truck, Marine and Rail Transport

预计电池电动力将成为未来乘用汽车的主要推进方式。对于长途重型运输，挑战仍然围绕着实际范围，有效载荷和总成本。目前，对于重型地面车辆，还没有单一的经济可行的脱碳解决方案。氨可能成为未来理想的混合物的一部分，作为氢能源载体或潜在的直接最终用途。拟议的工作旨在确定能源和空气质量的影响和潜在的未来应用的一种新型的氨燃料的重型内燃机运行的高效率（c.50%制动）和零排放，通过一个新的快速燃烧燃烧系统。该项目将利用卢瑟福阿普尔顿实验室新的绿色氨试验工厂，评估“绿色”氨生产过程中能源需求的潜在减少。为了评估相对优势和挑战，该项目将对远程重型运输（地面，货运铁路和海上）的一系列竞争脱碳动力系统技术进行基于证据的生命周期分析。

Battery electrified power is predicted to become the dominant mode of propulsion in future passenger cars. For long haul heavy duty transport challenges remain around practical range, payload and total cost. Currently there is no single economically viable decarbonised solution for heavy duty ground vehicles. Ammonia could form part of the ideal future mix, as a hydrogen energy vector or potentially through direct end use. The proposed work seeks to determine the energy and air quality impacts and potential future applications of a novel ammonia-fuelled heavy duty IC engine operating with high efficiency (c.50% brake) and zero emissions through a new fast burning combustion system. The project will evaluate potential reductions in energy demand in the 'green' ammonia production process, making use of the new green ammonia pilot plant at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratories. In order to assess relative advantages and challenges, the project will undertake evidence based life cycle analysis across a spectrum of competing decarbonised powertrain technologies for long range heavy duty transport (ground, freight rail and marine).