Test Engines to Accelerate Net Zero Shipping and Power Generation (TITANZ)

在未来几十年内，内燃机仍将在高功率船舶、分布式发电和越野车辆中占据主导地位，这需要围绕更绿色的燃料和清洁、高效的运行模式加强基础研究。英国在轻型汽车、货车和卡车的基础发动机研究方面享有国际领先的声誉，现在显然有机会将基础知识和技能转移到大型发动机上。目前，英国学术界完全缺乏大型单缸发动机设施，研究人员仅限于汽车规模的实验和模拟外推到更大的规模（基本预测存在重大误差）。这是加速净零燃料，破坏性大型发动机技术和英国内部政策的一个重大遗漏。因此，我们的愿景是建立一个世界领先的兆瓦级脱碳发动机实验设施，将两个独特的研究发动机战略性地放在一起，作为一个新的卓越合作中心，并利用现有的基础设施和专业知识，在全国范围内获得资产。

The internal combustion engine will remain dominant across high power marine, distributed power generation and off-road vehicles for several decades to come, requiring intensified fundamental research around greener fuels and clean, high efficiency operating modes. The UK has an internationally leading reputation for excellence in fundamental engine research for lighter duty cars, vans and trucks, with clear opportunities now apparent to transfer fundamental knowledge and skills to large engines. At present, the UK academic community is totally lacking large single cylinder engine facilities, with researchers restricted to automotive scale experiments and simulations extrapolated up to larger scale (with significant errors in fundamental predictions). This is a major omission in accelerating Net Zero fuels, disruptive large engine technologies and policies from within the UK. The vision is therefore to establish a world-leading, megawatt scale decarbonised engine experimental facility, with two unique research engines strategically co-located as a new collaborative centre of excellence and nationally accessible asset leveraging existing infrastructure and expertise.