Project description
Impact of new fuels on health and the environment
Heavy-duty vehicles, machinery, aircraft, and ships contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and pollutants. To support decarbonisation, new fuels such as hydrogen and ammonia are being explored, raising questions about their impact on harmful emissions. The EU-funded LowC project will investigate the effects of these new fuels on air pollutants and climate-driving emissions in high-power engines. It will also assess upstream emissions and secondary pollutants under various atmospheric conditions. The project will use advanced technologies, including an engine emission facility for testing low- or zero-carbon fuels on real engines, oxidation flow reactors for atmospheric simulations, and innovative methods for real-time exhaust characterisation. Ultimately, it will evaluate the health and environmental impacts of these fuels.
Objective
Heavy-duty vehicles (including non-road mobile machinery, e.g. excavators), aircrafts and ships are contributing significantly to emissions of green-house gases and health-relevant air pollutants, such as fine airborne particulate matter (PM2.5) as well as emerging pollutants. For decarbonization of the sector, several new fuels, ranging from hydrogen via ammonia to synthetic eFuels are considered. An import question is how these potential new fuels will influence the emission of air toxicants and other environment- and climate-active compounds. LowC will address if these new fuels for high-power engines have an impact on the emissions of air pollutants and climate-drivers, considering also upstream emissions and secondary pollutants formed under different atmospheric conditions (daytime photochemical aging or night-time atmospheric radical chemistry). LowC will apply a series of state-of-the-art technologies and models. This includes a unique Engine Emission Facility equipped for testing of all currently considered low- or zero-carbon fuels with real ship, aircraft and land-based heavy-duty engines, oxidation flow reactors for atmospheric simulation, novel real-time in-situ exhaust characterization approaches, cutting-edge technologies for offline analysis of collected samples and advanced online air-liquid-interface (ALI) exposure systems for in vitro testing of biological effects in lung tissue models. The toxicological testing will be applied in a tiered manner (screening and in-depth verification), in line with visions of Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century. Emission data, including regulated and emerging pollutants, will feed into pollution emission and atmospheric transport models currently used to underpin EU policy and the Zero Pollution Action Plan. Finally, LowC will evaluate health and environmental impacts and provide guidance and recommendations to ensure that solutions to reduce CO2-emissions and prevent climate change are safe and sustainable.
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- engineering and technology mechanical engineering vehicle engineering aerospace engineering aircraft
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences environmental sciences pollution
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences atmospheric sciences climatology climatic changes
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Programme(s)
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HORIZON.2.5 - Climate, Energy and Mobility
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HORIZON.2.5.7 - Clean, Safe and Accessible Transport and Mobility
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HORIZON.2.5.6 - Industrial Competitiveness in Transport
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
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Call for proposal
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0456 Oslo
Norway
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