Details of Grant

EPSRC Reference:

EP/W016656/1

Title:

Decarbonised Clean Marine: Green Ammonia Thermal Propulsion (MariNH3)

Principal Investigator:

Other Investigators:

Valera-Medina, Professor A	Tsolakis, Professor A	Delbridge, Professor R
David, Professor B	Begg, Dr S	Crua, Professor C
Panesar, Dr AS	Herreros, Dr J M	Morgan, Professor R
Wood, Dr TJ	McKechnie, Dr J	Morgan, Professor KJ
Gerada, Professor C	Grant, Professor DM	Bowen, Professor P
Walker, Professor GS	Wu, Dr D	Atkins, Dr P
Meek, Mr S G

Researcher Co-Investigators:

Project Partners:

BMT Group Ltd (UK)	BP	Connected Places Catapult
Coryton Advanced Fuels	Cummins Power Generation Limited	Dolphin N2
Health and Safety Executive	Infineum UK Ltd	Johnson Matthey
Lloyd's Register Group	MAHLE Powertrain Ltd	Maritime and Coastguard Agency
Pacific Green Technologies Group	Quantum ES	Ricardo Group
Rolls-Royce Plc (UK)	Shell	Wavespec
Westport Power Inc.

Department:

Faculty of Engineering

Organisation:

University of Nottingham

Scheme:

Programme Grants

Starts:

01 July 2022

Ends:

30 June 2027

Value (£):

5,508,861

EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:

Combustion	Fluid Dynamics
Reactor Engineering	Sustainable Energy Vectors

EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:

Chemicals	Energy
Transport Systems and Vehicles

Related Grants:

Panel History:

Panel Date	Panel Name	Outcome
30 Nov 2021	Element Programme Grant Interviews 30 November and 1 December 2021	Announced

Summary on Grant Application Form

Battery electrified power is predicted to become the dominant mode of propulsion in future light duty transport. For sustainable heavy duty applications challenges remain around practical range, payload and total cost. Currently there is no economically viable single solution. For commercial marine vessels the problem is compounded by long service lives, with bulk carriers, tankers and container ships the main contributors to greenhouse gases. Ammonia (NH3) has excellent potential to play a significant role as a sustainable future fuel in both retrofitted and advanced engines. However, significant uncertainties remain around safe and effective end use, with these unknowns spanning across fundamental understanding, effective application and acceptance. This multi-disciplinary programme seeks to overcome the key related technical, economic and social unknowns through flexible, multidisciplinary research set around disruptive NH3 engine concepts capable of high thermal efficiency and ultra low NOx. The goal is to accelerate understanding, technologies and ultimately policies which are appropriately scaled and "right first time".

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