Research and development of hydrogen fuelled engines in China

A review on production, storage of hydrogen and its utilization as an energy resource

“…China has started researches on hydrogen internal combustion engine (H 2 ICE) in the beginning of 1990s [111]. Researches [112,113] show that pure hydrogen internal combustion engine (H 2 ICE) is much efficient than the fossil fuel engine.…”

Sustainable development of road transportation sector using hydrogen energy system

“…The hydrogen as fuel for SI engines have many attractive features, but it tend to suffer from frequent pre-ignition combustion events, especially under high load conditions. Due to low density of hydrogen fuel the volumetric efficiencies of premixed or port-fuel-injected hydrogen engines are diminished relative to gasoline fuelled engines resulting into power drop, which can be improved using supercharging or turbocharging [14][15][16].…”

On reliability and flexibility of sustainable energy application route for vehicles in China

“…Meanwhile, China's sufficient valley electricity and abundant water resources could afford bulk production of electrolytic-hydrogen [49], China's sufficient biomass and maturing fermenting technologies could produce bulk biogas [50] which can be simply purified to H 2 . Furthermore, China has impressive by-product hydrogen from the industrial waste-gas [51]. In 2008, about 415,700 ton and 5,300,000 ton by-product H 2 were respectively obtained from sodium hydroxide production and coke production [52], and such by-product H 2 could realize a mileage of 1787 billion kilometers (under current technologies) that equals to an annual mileage of 1600 million private vehicles.…”