Objective DME from natural gas will soon be a major fuel for power generation. DME can also be made from biomass for CO2 reduction. DME is suitable for both Diesel engines and Fuel Cells, providing a solution for the medium and the long-term. In addition there are no soot emissions, enabling EEV urban emission levels. All this will be proven in the AFForHD project by a well-balanced consortium. Anew and reliable DME fuel system is designed and developed by a leading R&D organisation. This development will benefit from fundamental wear research of a university. For prototyping the very demanding parts, the expertise of a subcontractor is hired. In parallel the injection and combustion of DME is optimised to exploit all the DME potential. Next an engine is tuned for EEVemissions and this technology is evaluated in a truck. Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsfossil energynatural gasengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsfuel cellsagricultural sciencesagricultural biotechnologybiomass Programme(s) FP5-EESD - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Energy, environment and sustainable development, 1998-2002" Topic(s) 1.1.4.-6. - Key action Economic and Efficient Energy for a Competitive Europe Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator VOLVO POWERTRAIN CORPORATION Address Gropegaerdsgatan 40508 Goeteborg Sweden See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all AVL LIST GMBH Austria EU contribution € 0,00 Address See on map Links Website Opens in new window AVL POWERTRAIN TECHNOLOGY, INC. United States EU contribution € 0,00 Address 47519 halyard drive 48170-2438 Plymouth, michigan See on map BP P.L.C. United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address Chertsey road TW16 7LN Sunbury-on-thames See on map MUNICIPALITY OF VAEXJOE Sweden EU contribution € 0,00 Address Vaestra esplanaden 18 351 12 Vaexjoe See on map NETHERLANDS ORGANISATION FOR APPLIED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH - TNO Netherlands EU contribution € 0,00 Address 97,schoenmakerstraat 97 2600 JA Delft See on map TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK Denmark EU contribution € 0,00 Address Dtu building 101a 2800 Lyngby See on map
