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

Started

Fossil Fuels: Oil Gas and Coal(Oil and Gas, Oil and gas combustion)

Equipment

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering)

Not Cross-cutting

Prof A Cairns
Faculty of Engineering
University of Nottingham

Standard

EPSRC

01 October 2023

31 October 2026

37 months

£3,735,539

Energy

East Midlands

X Council Strategic Equipment Resource

Prof A Cairns, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham

Dr P Atkins, Sch of Computing, Engineering & Maths, University of Brighton
Dr S Begg, Sch of Engineering, University of Brighton
Professor DM Grant, Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Nottingham
Dr A La Rocca, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham
Dr J McKechnie, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Nottingham
Dr N D D Mich, Sch of Computing, Engineering & Maths, University of Brighton
Dr R Morgan, Sch of Computing, Engineering & Maths, University of Brighton
Dr O Rybdylova, Sch of Architecture Tech & Eng (SATE), University of Brighton

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Project Contact, Clean Air Power GT Ltd
Project Contact, Hybrid Marine Power Limited
Project Contact, PurEmissions
Project Contact, Sapsford Consulting Engineers Ltd
Project Contact, BP International Ltd
Project Contact, University of Stuttgart

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

23/11/23