Xebec's skid-mounted NGX Solutions M-3200
Xebec Adsorption Inc., a provider of biogas upgrading, natural gas and hydrogen purification solutions for the clean energy market, has been awarded a $2.2 million contract to supply a biogas upgrading plant for a waste to energy project located in South Korea. The order was placed by Potlatch Inc., a Korean developer and operator of renewable energy and fuel cell projects.
MAN City CNG bus
Striving to reduce its carbon footprint Reading Buses, based in Berkshire, has expressed confidence that its latest choice of alternative powered vehicle is even better than its recent batch of electric hybrids. They have commenced a six-week trial with a MAN compressed natural gas (CNG) powered bus. Said James Freeman, Reading Buses Chief Executive Officer: “We have readily accepted the opportunity to trial the new technology which offers even lower emissions than the recent batch of hybrid buses operating successfully in the town.” Read More »
AT&T CNG-powered fleet vehicle
Communications holding company AT&T is cruising towards its target of 15,000 cleaner-fuel fleet vehicles with the deployment of its 5000th clean vehicle – a compressed natural gas (CNG) powered van. In fact, AT&T has made one of the largest U.S. corporate commitments to compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles to date. Through 2013, AT&T anticipates it will have purchased up to 8,000 CNG vehicles at an estimated cost of $350 million. Read More »
A Mack-mounted New Way sideloader
The City of Pomona, California, has replaced its entire diesel powered refuse fleet of 22 trucks with compressed natural gas (CNG) Mack trucks set up with New Way bodies, reports Government Fleet. City Council approved the purchase in December 2011, and the City expects delivery of the vehicles — twenty CNG sideloaders & two CNG rearloaders – in August and September this year. Total cost to the city was approx. USD 5.6 million after grant funding from the California Energy Commission (CEC).
As part of its continued commitment to sustainable practices, American foodservice distributor US Foods’ Oklahoma City Division is using five new trucks that run on compressed natural gas (CNG). Natural gas is cleaner burning than gasoline, and reduces ozone-forming emissions by an average of 80 percent when compared to gasoline vehicles. Read More »
ITM Power, a UK-based energy storage and clean fuel company, has achieved CE compliance for a standardised HFuel product, the Company’s transportable hydrogen refueling system. This enables commercial sales of such systems to commence in the EU. Following a competitive tender process, ITM Power won a contract to design and supply a refueling product to The University of Nottingham. This provided the opportunity to CE mark an HFuel generation, storage and dispensing product.
Cornerstone Environmental Group, LLC, an environment-focused engineering consultancy, is part of a team that received a 2011 Project of the Year Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the Rodefeld Landfill BioCNG Vehicle Fuel Project as part of the Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP). The award was presented during the 15th Annual LMOP Partner and Project of the Year Awards Ceremony on January 18, 2012, in Baltimore, MD. The project partners include the Dane County Solid Waste Department, Cornerstone Environmental Group, ANGI Energy Systems, Unison Solutions LLC, and Madison Area Technical College.
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has issued an Executive Order (EO) on Greenkraft Inc’s 2012 dedicated compressed natural gas (CNG) fuel systems on General Motors 14,000 GVRW and above 6.0 8-cylinder engine. Greenkraft, Inc is a manufacturer of alternative fuel systems for use in transportation applications. In addition the GM engine can be installed in 14,000 trucks and above as a repower to run on CNG instead of diesel, which can help reduce the cost of fuel for fleet operators. Read More »
Kawasaki 9000 TEU Containership Design (LNG fuelled)
Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) has completed the development of a large, 9 000 TEU container ship fuelled by LNG and obtained Approval in Principle from DNV. The ship is designed with a new type of LNG tank that provides more space for container cargo. KHI obtained DNV Approval in Principle for both the gas supply system of the vessel and the LNG fuel tanks. Read More »
Fuel economies and lower emissions are the outcome of a new 14,000 TEU liquefied natural gas (LNG) powered container ship design approved in-principle by international vessel classification society Bureau Veritas. IFW reports the design was developed in a joint industry project between Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) and French shipping line CMA CGN. Jean-Francois Segretain, Deputy Technical Director at Bureau Veritas, said “This is a real milestone as for the first time we have a fully worked and approved design for a main line ultra-large containership running on LNG.”
VW Passat TSI EcoFuel - "Car of the Future"
Germany’s ADAC (Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club e.V.) has declared its annual choices for Yellow Angel Awards and once again the natural gas powered VW Passat TWI EcoFuel has been designated “Yellow Angel” in the Car of the Future Category. It received the same award in 2011. Read More »
Surrey's pilot CNG refuse collection truck
“Surrey will have a refuse and recycling fleet by 2014 powered … by a renewable form of natural gas [biomethane] made from the city’s own wastes.”
Surrey, the second largest city in the Canadian province of British Columbia, is implementing a ground-breaking municipal waste management and transportation initiative as part of its sustainable future plans. Their endeavours have been reported on by the New York-based non-profit environmental organization Energy Vision, entitled The City of Surrey: Setting the Pace for Sustainable Transportation, authored by Joanna D. Underwood, President of Energy Vision, and Michael S. Lerner.
Tata Nano CNG Concept
Omnitek Engineering Corporation, a developer and provider of new natural gas engines and conversion systems, has been selected by India-based Tata Motors to supply original equipment high-pressure natural gas filters for 2012 passenger vehicles, expanding a supplier agreement for commercial vehicle filter applications that commenced in 2009.
YPFB CNG Station (Image: Aspro)
Carlos Villegas, president of Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB), Bolivia’s state-owned and operated petrol company, says the company is planning to populate the major route between the cities of La Paz, Cochabamba and Santa Cruz with five compressed natural gas (CNG) filling stations, reports FM Bolivia. In addition, another ten stations are planned for later installation, ensuring natural gas vehicle (NGV) drivers can locate a CNG service station amongst the intermediate population centres distributed along Bolivia’s transportation backbone.
Port of Ghent, Belgium (Image courtesy of Port of Ghent)
Det Norske Veritas AS (DNV) has won a contract with the Flemish government to undertake a feasibility study for the provision of liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering facilities at the ports of Antwerp, Zeebrugge and Ghent in Belgium. The work will consist of a market survey, a risk and safety analysis, and modeling of the logistics, legal and regulatory requirements needed to establish LNG bunkering infrastructure at the ports.
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