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 functions, with management from Mahle.
PoWer members additionally embrace Liebherr, Deutz, Equipment, The German Aerospace Middle (DLR), Purem, Claas, Braunschweig College of Know-how, Nagel, Umicore, NGK and Castrol,
This three-year venture 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 venture.
Hydrogen engines supply many benefits due to their inherent traits resembling effectivity, robustness, and low uncooked emissions, which make them notably appropriate for functions in development and agricultural machines.
“At Mahle, we have now been engaged on the event of hydrogen engines for years and are delighted that we will now additionally contribute this experience, along with sturdy companions, to the most recent developments for the off-road sector,” explains Dr Marco Warth, vice chairman of Company Analysis and Superior Engineering at Mahle. “Solely the cooperation of such various companions and consultants within the respective applied sciences allows a holistic method and impressively reveals the innovation potential of German analysis and business within the mobility sector.”
Off-road functions will probably be demonstrated and analyzed in car idea research in addition to in systemic fleet and infrastructure concerns. Exhaust gasoline aftertreatment ideas can even be developed and comprehensively examined on the check bench.
By inspecting the affect of hydrogen on supplies and the friction and put on traits, in addition to qualifying these leads to engine runs, all the basics important for reaching the intense robustness necessities, bearing in mind future emissions tips of NRMM (non-road cellular equipment), will probably 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 the most effective options for various functions worldwide. The automotive provider is concerned in all main hydrogen engine initiatives in addition to growth and sequence initiatives for gas cell autos.
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)
