CRITERIA FOR ASSESSING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TRANSPORT POWER PLANTS DECARBONISATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CONCEPT

Abstract

The directions of restoration and further development of the energy sector in Ukraine are considered in accordance with power plants with internal combustion engines, taking into account the widespread implementation of the Sustainable Development concept, which allows solving existing modern social, economic and environmental problems. For Ukraine, taking into account the economic opportunities and selected priorities for the chosen path of development, it is necessary at this time to choose gradual and specific directions to implement the Sustainable Development concept. The most priority areas of practical implementation of the concept are determined and it is indicated that the effectiveness of this implementation is associated with the development of the industry on the basis of the fourth and fifth industrial revolutions (Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0). One of the main tasks in solving the problems of the concept is to ensure the environmental component. Notwithstanding the noted progress in improving the environmental efficiency of internal combustion engines, further attention needs to be paid to the task of spreading the introduction of “green energy”, i.e. decarbonisation – reducing greenhouse gas emissions into the environment (CO2). The issue of decarbonisation in the future should be given the greatest attention both in the development and in the manufacture and operation of engines. It is shown that the assessment of the impact of CO2 emitted with the exhaust gases of internal combustion engines into the environment is carried out taking into account the model of operation of engines and the justification of the introduced adjustments. A new criterion is proposed, which is called: “ICE criterion of environmental thermal pollution”, which is proposed for use in studies to assess the effectiveness of the implementation of decarbonisation strategies in all modes of transport at implementation of the Sustainable Development concept in global transport power plants. A method for determining the efficiency of physical and chemical processes of mixture formation and combustion in internal combustion engine cylinders is proposed when using hybrid fuel with “green hydrogen” as its component, which allows determining the dependence of hydrogen influence on the level of engines effective performance and formation of harmful emissions in exhaust gases.