Project to Run UK Locomotive on Biogas, Hydrogen Receives Gov’t Funding
(Bioenergy Insight) UK rail freight provider Freightliner, working in partnership with a consortium of specialist suppliers, has secured government funding to develop a dual-fuel solution for the Class 66 locomotive.
The technology, utilising biogas and hydrogen, is one of the 30 winners of the latest round of the First of a Kind competition announced by the UK Transport Secretary. Already the safest and greenest mode of ground-freight transportation, said Freightliner, the competition aims to make the railways even cleaner, greener, and more passenger-friendly.
This is the first time that this technology – widely used in the road industry – will be applied to the rail freight sector on such an important and widely-used class of locomotive, said the firm.
The project will investigate the ability to substitute diesel with both hydrogen and biogas on the Class-66 locomotive, which hauls over 80% of freight on the UK rail network and, in doing so, reduce carbon emissions on one of the industry’s most challenging two-stroke locomotives. This will be achieved by retrofitting the Class 66 with Clean Air Power’s precision injection technology, creating a Class 66 that can run on a combination of diesel, biogas, and hydrogen.
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Exhaust emissions will be assessed in line with the latest RSSB guidance to understand the baseline condition and the impact of dual-fuelling for both hydrogen and biogas. Emissions and substitution data is a key output of this project and will be available to RSSB. READ MORE
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