Flexible Clean Propulsion Technologies

The Flexible Clean Propulsion Technologies project aims to revolutionise the Finnish marine and off-road powertrain industry by overcoming the technological challenges of multiple-fuel combustion to achieve dramatic reductions in GHG. We are working to demonstrate robust powertrain systems that optimise multiple fuel streams. The core of the work is fuel-agnostic design, using only two platform configurations and with self-learning capabilities that address the calibration complexity of new fuels. The Flex-CPT research plan includes 33 innovations such as fuel-reforming-based reactivity on demand and adaptive deposit formation and emission control. The solutions also exploit synergy between fuel storage and thermal management for hybrid systems and multi-fuel combustion.

VTT co-project in Flex-CPT focuses on solving the multidimensional challenge of decarbonization of marine and off-road vechiles by developing new combustion concepts for methanol, technologies for reducing and handling of hydrogen ICE blow-by gases, novel pollutant emissions reduction technologies for new fuels as hydrogen, methanol and ammonia. In addition, VTT’s experts investigate properties of fuels and fuel additives improving their handling, storability, combustion and emissions characteristics. New methodologies will be also developed for battery-based energy storage lifetime monitoring and optimization.