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

测试发动机以加速净零运输和发电 (TITANZ)

• 批准号: EP/X04114X/1
• 负责人: Alasdair Cairns
• 金额: $ 444.18万
• 依托单位: University of Nottingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FX04114X%2F1
• 关键词: Test; Engines; Accelerate; Net; Zero

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.

未来几十年，内燃机将在大功率船舶、分布式发电和越野车辆中保持主导地位，需要围绕更环保的燃料和清洁、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卓越声誉，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更大范围的模拟（基本预测存在重大错误）。这是英国国内在加速净零燃料、颠覆性大型发动机技术和政策方面的重大遗漏。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集中在一起，作为一个新的卓越协作中心，并利用现有的基础设施和专业知识在全国范围内使用资产。