Authors

Ricardo NOVELLA 
CMT València / Universitat Politècnica de València, ES

Summary

The ALL-IN Zero project, supported by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe program, aims to develop an innovative and versatile multi-fuel concept that utilizes low, zero, or carbon-negative fuels —such as ammonia, natural gas, biogas, or alcohols— for power generation targeting transportation and other hard-to-abate sectors. These fuels will be processed in situ in a Compact Membrane Reactor (CMR) to produce hydrogen (H2) as a temporary energy carrier, which is then immediately used by a power generation system (PGS) that can be an internal combustion engine (ICE) and/or a fuel cell system (FCS), to deliver mechanical and/or electrical energy with zero emissions. Launched in September 2022, this four-year initiative has completed two and a half years, during which the focus was on the initial evaluation of the concept, the CMR technology design, the optimization of the two PGS and the development of the models of these systems for the final virtual assessment of the concept (in progress). The key findings up to date confirm the feasibility of implementing this concept in a Heavy-Duty (HD) vehicle in terms of packaging and hydrogen generation rates. In addition, the final materials for the CMR providing the target performance have been defined and the two PGS have been optimized to maximize their efficiency. As a result, the concept is ready to be scaled up and evaluated in detail in the virtual HD vehicle simulation framework under development.

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