DIESEL PROGRESS SUMMIT

that internal combustion engines will play emissions targets.

a key role in industrial applications for Cummins (www.cummins.com)

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a long time to come, especially in those has already announced a fuel-agnostic
applications where there is a high demand approach to future engine technology.
for mechanical power and energy.” “Whether it’s diesel, natural gas,
hydrogen, low-carbon fuels with a >
FUEL-AGNOSTIC FUTURE
Presenters from Cummins and Shell Jonathon White, vice
see “fuel-agnostic” internal combustion president of Engine Business
engines as essential to reach 2050 net-zero Engineering, Cummins.

USE OF FUEL
CELLS AS RANGE
EXTENDERS
Rounding out the Summit was Dr. Daryl
Musselman, chief operating officer at Workboat engine
Loop Energy, who shared insight on how MAN D2862 LE
his company works with customers to
implement hydrogen fuel cell systems as
range extenders for electric commercial
vehicles. “We design the fuel cell, we
assemble the fuel cell, we test the fuel
cell, we support the integration of the fuel
cell and then we service and maintain at a
second level for our customers,” he noted.
For those considering fuel cells as a
range extender for an electric vehicle,
Musselman emphasized the need to really
understand the application. “Then you
can optimize the system to give you the
right balance of battery and fuel cell size, THE WORK
everything together. You need to start early
and understand that.
“Then choose the technology and, once
DONE BEHIND
the decision has been made to go with a
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Allen Aradi, projects
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and technology
development
leader, Shell.
compression ignition engine – that’s
the focus of our fuel-agnostic platform
strategy for the engine business,” said
Jonathon White, vice president of Engine
Business Engineering, Cummins.
With this strategy, most of the changes
to the engine take place above the
cylinder head, primarily within the spark
ignition and fuel systems to accommodate
different fuels. The lower half of the
engine remains largely the same, with
the engine footprint and service intervals
designed with the same parts and
components where possible.
According to White, the technology is
easily scalable within a decade.
Dr. Allen Aradi, projects and
technology development leader at Shell
(www.shell.us), believes fuel-agnostic
solutions will be essential to decarbonize
heavy-duty equipment globally.
Approaches to achieve net-zero by
2050 will require a “global lens because
decarbonization is different in different
regions of the world,” and dependent on
the availability of different fuels.
The most practical near-term solutions
will be low-carbon fuels, Aradi stated.
TAKING ON CHALLENGES
Smaller machines are electrifying at
a “pretty fast clip,” said Dr. Suresh
Natarajan, head of Off-Highway
Customer Solution Engineering Americas,
Dana Inc. (www.dana.com), in his
presentation. But even such low-voltage
(>120 V) applications bring challenges
given the diversity of machine types and
applications. There will be no single
Dr. Suresh Natarajan, head of
Off-Highway Customer Solution
Engineering Americas, Dana Inc.
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ELECTRIFYING NEW SOLUTIONS
Presenters at the Summit highlighted technologies capable of substantially improving the
efficiency and productivity of key off-highway systems.
Mike Terzo, who at the time was CEO of Terzo Power Systems, discussed how the company’s
Hydrapulse electric hydraulic technology can help to address the challenges of energy loss in
hydraulics by integrating “intelligence” into the system.
The electrohydraulic power on demand, or distributed pump, system dedicates a single
pump to a specific work function. “That allows us to get rid of almost all of the components on
a vehicle’s hydraulic system that lose energy – the valves, the coolers, the pump idling,” said
Terzo. “We’ve actually proven and documented with some of our research that we can hit over
96% improvement in energy savings.”
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Preston Moore, solution planner, product manager drivetrain, eDrivetrain and propulsion
batteries, John Deere Power Systems, has also seen substantial improvements with John
Deere’s electric variable transmission (EVT). The power-split transmission uses electric motors
in place of hydrostatic motors to improve transmission performance, reliability and efficiency in
the company’s high-horsepower Series 8 tractors from 20% to 45%.
One of the biggest advantages is the ability to “off board” power from the EVT. “The [electric]
motor is acting as a generator, producing electric power and pushing that to the inverter, where
you then have the option to take that power
off board the vehicle to do other meaningful
work or route that power back into the
transmission,” Preston explained. As much
as 80% of power can be transferred from
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the engine to the drawbar.
Learn more at www.deere.com.
Preston Moore, solution
planner, product manager
drivetrain, eDrivetrain and
propulsion batteries, John
Deere Power Systems.
option that meets all needs. to go back and forth between the electric
“You will need to work closely with solution and the traditional solutions.”
the OEM to come up with the right Natarajan said the first step is to use
solution,” Natarajan said. “You also need “systems thinking” in your approach, and
to think about modularity with the… the second is to develop a “toolkit” that
internal combustion engine machines, is both modular and scalable. Dana is
because most of the OEMs that have meeting the demands of customers in this
electric offerings, they also have a space “by providing solutions for every
traditional offering. You need to be able one of their architectures, every one of
their applications,” he stated.
And as electrification continues to
move up the power curve, with higher
power requirements, “you need to
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have high-voltage solutions to support
customers’ transition and journey in the
electrification arena,” Natarajan said. DP
Find complete write-ups of these
presentations at:
www.dieselprogress.com