In pursuit of a dedicated hydrogen ICE for heavy-duty vehicles

Heavy-duty vehicle regulations from the European Union specify a 43% carbon emissions reduction by 2030. The EU's carbon emissions reduction mandate climbs to 64% by 2035 before soaring to 90% by 2040. “The hydrogen combustion engine has a role to play to reduce CO₂ emissions,” said Vincent Giuffrida, CFD engineer for IFP Energies novellas (IFPEN), a Rueil-Malmaison, France-headquartered public research and innovation organization.

Giuffrida and IFPEN colleague and research engineer Olivier Colin were the presenters for a webinar addressing the “Development of a Dedicated Hydrogen Combustion System for Heavy-Duty Applications” in July. The webinar was hosted by Madison, Wisconsin-headquartered Convergent Science, whose CONVERGE CFD software simulates three-dimensional fluid flows. Features of the CFD software include autonomous meshing, complex moving geometries, a detailed chemical kinetics solver, advanced physical models, conjugate heat transfer model, fluid structure interaction/FSI (including rigid and non-rigid body FSI), and a volume of fluid (VOF) tool to model multi-phase flows.