Christian Bach (Empa)
Christian Bach (Empa)
The challenge and potential of advanced methane gas vehicles
Abstract
Natural gas vehicles are known since decades, but their engines are based until now on conventional gasoline engines. The potential of this fuel was therefore not used yet. New advanced methane gas engine concepts, combined with natural gas reformulation on the fueling station, the blending of natural gas with preprocessed biogas from waste resources and/ore hydrogen as well as the more and more stringent CO2 and exhaust gas limits are putting more and more interest to this fuel.
In the presentation, a common Empa/ETH research project for the development of a methane gas/hybrid vehicle in cooperation with Volkswagen and Bosch and results from hydrogen enriched methane gas combustion will be presented.
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Christian Bach graduated as automotive engineer at the University of Applied Science in Biel, Switzerland. He is working on motor vehicle exhaust gas emissions and natural gas engine development since 1990.
Since 2001 he is leading the internal combustion engines laboratory at the Swiss Federal Laboratory for Materials Testing and Research (Empa).
