Engine developments and renewable fuel options

As 3rd in a series the Netherlands Platform Sustainable Biofuels (PDB), HAN Automotive and TUe organised a seminar on the necessity for new engine developments to align the changes in the energy carriers and fuel mix.

Regularly, professional heavy duty riders ask us which options they can choose between to date to green their rides. Which options are available for their existing truck, or which portfolio of options unfolds when considering a new truck. Also business drivers pose this question. In this seminar we assessed existing options and new developments, their impacts on price (TCO), performance with respect to local emission, as well as on impacts on preventing climate change (reduction of CO2-emissions). Where available experiences of users were addressed too. Last but not least, the seminar also touched on new and innovatieve fuel-engine-combinations.

Programme

09:30 Welcome with coffee/tea

10:00 Start of the Seminar

Welcome and Introduction
Bram Veenhuizen - HAN Automotive

Session 1: What are renewable fuel options for existing vehicles on diesel/gasoline?

• The existing options HVO /FAME in diesel and ethanol in gasoline, RAI Vereniging
• Retrofit in existing vehicles to LPG/LNG/CNG, Bas ten Broeke, Prins Autogassystemen
• E85 deployment in France, lessons learned, Martijn van Walwijk, independent consultant

Session 2: What are new options currently emerging in the market space?

• DME, How Volvo assesses this fuel option, Wijnand van den Brink, Volvo Trucks
• New gas engines, Loek Vroon, Iveco (PDF of presentation

Session 3: Which new fuel-engine-combinations are to be expected?

• Update on the TUe emission-free combustion engine developments, Bart Somers, TUe
• Keynote Rik Baert, Fontys/TNO, on engine development towards 2050

Wrap-up

12:15 -12:30 Bram Veenhuizen, HAN Automotive and Bart Somers, TUe

Lunch

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