Hydrogen Hybrid Vehicle Alcohol Cracking Generator
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Solution Overview
Problem
Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles face high production costs, safety concerns due to storage requirements, and infrastructure challenges, while hybrid power electric vehicles still rely on gasoline and emit pollutants, failing to break free from oil dependency.
Innovation Solution
A hydrogen hybrid power electric vehicle that uses a hydrogen engine fueled by hydrogen produced through cracking alcohol, combining with an electric motor, featuring an alcohol cracking hydrogen generator that uses afterheat from the engine to efficiently produce hydrogen, reducing costs and emissions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Duration of action of moving object
If hydrogen is stored in liquid state with high pressure or low temperature, then the specified mileage of continuous running is achieved, but safety is compromised and infrastructure investment is huge
Solution Approach 1:
The vehicle generates its own hydrogen fuel on-board through alcohol cracking using the engine exhaust heat, eliminating the need for external hydrogen storage infrastructure and high-pressure/low-temperature storage systems. The system serves itself by converting readily available alcohol into hydrogen fuel during operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention changes the physical state and storage conditions of hydrogen from high-pressure liquid storage to on-demand generation from alcohol. By altering the fuel supply method from stored hydrogen to generated hydrogen, the system achieves continuous running without the safety and infrastructure constraints of traditional hydrogen storage.
2Speed
If a hybrid power electric vehicle uses an oil-fueled engine, then the vehicle can be driven on expressway, but it still consumes gasoline and emits pollutants
Solution Approach 1:
The invention replaces the traditional oil-fueled engine combustion system with a hydrogen combustion system. The alcohol cracking hydrogen generator substitutes for the fuel tank and fuel delivery system, providing hydrogen fuel that burns cleanly without the harmful emissions associated with gasoline or diesel combustion.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention changes the fuel type from hydrocarbon-based gasoline/diesel to hydrogen produced from alcohol cracking. This fundamental parameter change in fuel composition eliminates carbon-containing emissions while maintaining the engine's ability to operate at expressway speeds.
3Ease of manufacture
If hydrogen is produced by alcohol cracking, then the cost is reduced and thermal efficiency is improved, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The alcohol cracking hydrogen generator performs multiple functions: it serves as both the fuel processing system and the hydrogen generation system, while also utilizing the engine exhaust heat that would otherwise be wasted. This multi-functionality reduces overall system complexity despite the added fuel processing capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention introduces alcohol as an intermediary substance that can be easily stored and transported, which is then converted to hydrogen on-board. This intermediary approach simplifies the overall system by using readily available materials and standard storage conditions rather than requiring complex high-pressure hydrogen storage infrastructure.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables 100% hydrogen fueling without gasoline or diesel, reducing oil dependency, improving combustion efficiency, extending vehicle life, and offering a regenerative energy source with zero emissions from the electric motor, applicable to both hybrid power electric and fuel cell electric vehicles.
Implementation Method 1
hydrogen produced by heating and cracking alcohol
Implementation Method 2
heating alcohol
Implementation Method 3
combusting hydrogen produced by heating and cracking alcohol as fuel for their hydrogen engines
Implementation Method 4
hybrids the power of a hydrogen engine and the power of an electric motor
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention relates to the vehicle field, more particularly, to a hydrogen hybrid power electric vehicle which combusts hydrogen instead of gasoline or diesel, characterized in that an alcohol cracking hydrogen generator is in serial connection in the line of an exhaust pipe of the hydrogen engine of the vehicle which can produce hydrogen on board by cracking alcohol using the afterheat of the exhaust gases so as to drive the vehicle to run and the electric motor to generate power. When a vehicle is driven by a hydrogen engine according to the present invention combined with an electric motor, ultra-low emission or zero-emission can be reached. Plenty of raw materials can be used to produce hydrogen such as sugarcane, maize, sweet broomcorn and cassava etc. all of which are inexhaustible regenerative resources. The alcoholic materials used to produce hydrogen can be 50°-65° hydrous methanol or ethanol, which involve easy processing technology and low costs. It is also very safe and convenient to store, transport and supply in network liquid alcohol.