Technical Paper
Life Cycle Assessment of a State-of-the-art Diesel oil powered Engine and Preliminary Evaluation of its Conversion into a Novel Hydrogen powered Engine
2024-04-09
2024-01-2442
This paper is part of broader research project aiming at studying, designing, and prototyping a hydrogen-powered internal combustion engine to achieve fast market implementation, reduced greenhouse gas emissions, and sustainable costs. The ability to provide a fast market implementation is linked to the fact that the technological solution would exploit the existing production chain of internal combustion engines. Regarding the technological point of view, the hydrogen engine will be a monofuel engine re-designed based on a diesel-oil-powered engine, i.e., by means of modifying certain subsystems (e.g., combustion systems, injection, ignition, exhaust gas recirculation and exhaust gas aftertreatment). The project is targeting a wide range of applications (automotive, cogeneration, maritime, off-road, railroad, etc.).