Enabling Efficient, Affordable & Robust Use of Renewable Hydrogen

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This project will demonstrate the performance and the value of highly efficient, reciprocating engines operating on renewable hydrogen. These engines are intended to be the most efficient, hydrogen fuelled engines ever developed, with supporting research enabling this goal. We will then analyse how these engines are an important part of different, economically optimal, integrated systems that generate, transport or use renewable hydrogen.How the project worksA number of experimental facilities and modelling tools will be used to develop and implement high efficiency, hydrogen fuelled engines. Fundamental experiments will be conducted to assess hydrogen combustion at engine-relevant conditions. Shared, high performance computational resources will be used to develop new, predictive tools that are informed by the fundamental experiments. Several world-class, experimental engine setups will provide data to confirm the highly efficient operation of innovative, hydrogen fuelled reciprocating engines. A suite of techno-economic modelling tools will be employed to determine the optimal economic benefit of these engines.

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