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TECHNOLOGY SPOTLIGHT
* Ro-Ro bridge: 480 linear m
(trucks, vehicles and containers)
* Tween deck height: 6.5 m
* Access ramp: 15 m wide
* Commercial speed: 12 knots
* Electric propulsion: 4 MW
* Fuel cell power (RexH2 EODev):
2.5 MW
* Liquid H2 tanks (LH2): 70 t (1,000 m3
* Range: Up to 4,000 nautical mi.
Fuel cell research partnership
in heavy-duty transportation
Faurecia and MAN are partnering
in a state-supported fuel cell research
TRANSPORTATION
H2
)
project. Faurecia will equip a Bavarian
fleet (Bayernflotte) of heavy-duty trucks
provided by MAN with complete H2
storage systems.
The project is backed with about
€7 MM ($7.75 MM) in funding from the
Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs,
Regional Development and Energy.
Faurecia, a part of Group FORVIA, will
develop and seek certification for a new
size of tank perfectly adapted to meet
the requirements of heavy-duty vehicles
and other applications with intensive
use cases. This type of extra-large
system can store an increased amount
of H2
, delivering a higher autonomy.
This H2
storage system prototype will
be developed in the R&D center in
Augsburg, Germany.
Starting mid-2024, five selected end
users will test these H2-powered fuel
cell trucks in real-life operations for 1 yr,
operating in the Bavarian region between
Nuremberg and Munich.
Airbus and CFM pioneering
H2
combustion system
Airbus has signed a partnership
agreement with CFM International (CFM),
a 50/50 joint company between GE and
Safran Aircraft Engines, to collaborate
on a H2
demonstration program that
will take flight around 2025.
The program's objective is to ground
fuel cell to power line-rail haul
Progress Rail, a Caterpillar Inc. Co., BNSF Railway Company and Chevron, have
entered an MoU to advance the demonstration of a locomotive powered by H2
cells. The demonstration confirms the feasibility and performance of H2
viable alternative to traditional fuels for line-haul rail. H2
fuel as a
has the potential to play a
significant role as a lower-carbon alternative to diesel fuel for transportation, with
H2
fuel cell locomotive
fuel cells becoming a means to reduce emissions.
Under the MoU, the parties are working toward reaching definitive agreements
on a demonstration with three primary objectives. These include:
1. Progress Rail plans to design and build a prototype H2
for line-haul and/or other types of rail service.
2. Chevron expects to develop the fueling concept and infrastructure to
support the use of the locomotive.
3. The prototype H2 fuel cell locomotive is expected to be demonstrated on
BNSF's lines for a mutually agreed upon period.
Progress Rail's team will leverage Caterpillar's advanced power technology
knowledge and experience toward a H2 fuel cell locomotive, while working with
Chevron and BNSF to advance H2 technology across the industry. Caterpillar Inc. is
collaborating with Chevron for the demonstration of H2
and stationary power applications.
projects in transportation
fuel
and flight test a direct combustion
engine fueled by H2
in preparation
for entry into service within a zeroemissions
aircraft by 2035. The
demonstration will use an A380 flying
testbed equipped with liquid H2
tanks
prepared at Airbus facilities in France
and Germany. Airbus will also define
the H2
engine in the cruise phase.
CFM will modify the combustor,
fuel system and control system of a
GE Passport turbofan to run on H2
.
The engine, which is assembled in the
U.S., was selected for this program
because of its physical size, advanced
turbomachinery and fuel flow capability.
It will be mounted along the rear
fuselage of the flying testbed to allow
engine emissions, including contrails, to
be monitored separately from those of
the engines powering the aircraft. CFM
will execute an extensive ground test
program ahead of the A380 flight test.
This significant step undertaken by
Airbus in H2
-powered flight is the next
step after unveiling the ZEROe concept
in late 2020 and leverages American
and European expertise in engine
manufacturing to make progress on H2
combustion technology. H2
combustion
capability is one of the foundational
technologies being developed and
matured as part of the CFM RISE
Program. CFM shares Airbus' ambition
of fulfilling the promise they made in
signing the Air Transport Action Group
goal in October 2021 to achieve aviation
industry net-zero carbon emissions by
2050 by developing and testing the
technology necessary to make zeroemissions
aircraft a reality within the
ambitious timeline defined.
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oversee flight testing and provide the
A380 platform to test the H2
propulsion system requirements,
combustion
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