A brand new German consortium of off-highway car OEMs, suppliers and teachers – PoWer – has been created to comprehensively examine the cross-application use of hydrogen-engine powertrain ideas for development and agricultural purposes, with management from Mahle.
PoWer members additionally embrace Liebherr, Deutz, Package, The German Aerospace Middle (DLR), Purem, Claas, Braunschweig College of Know-how, Nagel, Umicore, NGK and Castrol,
This three-year challenge is being funded with €5.1 million by the Federal Ministry for Financial Affairs and Local weather Motion and supported by TÜV Rheinland. Mahle has been commissioned to handle the challenge.
Hydrogen engines supply many benefits because of their inherent traits equivalent to effectivity, robustness, and low uncooked emissions, which make them notably appropriate for purposes in development and agricultural machines.
“At Mahle, we now have been engaged on the event of hydrogen engines for years and are delighted that we are able to now additionally contribute this experience, along with sturdy companions, to the newest developments for the off-road sector,” explains Dr Marco Warth, vp of Company Analysis and Superior Engineering at Mahle. “Solely the cooperation of such numerous companions and consultants within the respective applied sciences allows a holistic strategy and impressively exhibits the innovation potential of German analysis and trade within the mobility sector.”
Off-road purposes shall be demonstrated and analyzed in car idea research in addition to in systemic fleet and infrastructure concerns. Exhaust fuel aftertreatment ideas may even be developed and comprehensively examined on the take a look at bench.
By analyzing the affect of hydrogen on supplies and the friction and put on traits, in addition to qualifying these ends in engine runs, all the basics important for reaching the acute robustness necessities, bearing in mind future emissions pointers of NRMM (non-road cellular equipment), shall be developed.
Mahle stands for technological variety and, with its three strategic fields of electrification, thermal administration, and extremely environment friendly sustainable combustion engines, develops one of the best options for various purposes worldwide. The automotive provider is concerned in all main hydrogen engine tasks in addition to improvement and sequence tasks for gas cell automobiles.
Picture: Mahle GmbH
*Consortium members from the again left to the entrance proper: Tobias Horn (Mahle), Dr. Frank Schweizer (Fraunhofer IWM), Leonardo Morgado (Mahle), Philipp Winkelhahn (TU Braunschweig), Claus Dieter Vogt (NGK), Dr. Steffen Tischer (KIT-ITCP), Dennis Felger (Purem), Florian Reppert (KIT-IFKM), Dr. Uwe Wagner (KIT-IFKM), Dr. Ansgar Wille (NGK), Dr. Georg Töpfer (Deutz), Christian Depenbrock (TU Braunschweig), Mattis Gramke (Claas), Florian Heckert (DLR), Hans-Peter Böhm (Nagel), Fabian Wohlfahrt (Claas), Dr. Stefan Dietrich (KIT-IAM), Alexander Ohrt (Liebherr), Nils Kasselmann (TÜV Rheinland), Eva Zimmermann (TÜV Rheinland), Hannes Marlok (Mahle)
