Higher Efficiency, Reduced Emissions, Increased Reliability and Lifetime, Engines for Ships (HERCULES-C)
Research Project, 2012
– 2014
This EU project is conducted in a work-package collaboration with MAN Turbo and Diesel in Copenhagen, Denmark. To support their model developments, we have developed an optically transparent injector tip with the same interior passages as a commercial unit. It is fed by fuel from a modified Scania XPI injector body. The injector mounts inside the Chalmers spray vessel so that we can reproduce the density of air inside the big MAN engines. Interior flows will be studied with high-speed, long distance microscopic shadowgraphy and they will be correlated with breakup using ballistic imaging. The project includes 25 partners.
Participants
Mark Linne (contact)
Chalmers, Mechanics and Maritime Sciences (M2), Combustion and Propulsion Systems
Zachary Falgout
Chalmers, Mechanics and Maritime Sciences (M2), Combustion and Propulsion Systems
Collaborations
Aalto University
Espoo, Finland
ABB
Zurich, Switzerland
Bodycote Metallurgical Coating
Macclesfield, United Kingdom
Danfoss IXA
Vejle, Denmark
Federal-Mogul
Burscheid, Germany
FEV
Aachen, Germany
Flame Spray Technologies
Newport, United Kingdom
FOS Messtechnik
Schacht Audorf, Germany
Gehring Technologies
Ostfildern, Germany
IFP Energies Nouvelles
Rueil Malmaison, France
M. Jürgensen & Co
Sorup, Germany
Man Diesel & Turbo
Augsburg, Germany
Paul Scherrer Institut
Villigen, Switzerland
PBS Turbo
Velka Bites, Czech Republic
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH)
Zürich, Switzerland
Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Lyngby, Denmark
Technische Universität Graz
Graz, Austria
Tehag Engineering
Schlatt, Switzerland
Wärtsilä Finland
Vaasa, Finland
Wärtsilä Schweiz
Winterthur, Switzerland
Funding
European Commission (EC)
Project ID: EC/FP7/284354
Funding Chalmers participation during 2012–2014