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“We have the gas here; the plant is the missing link.”
A clean and local alternative fuel supply forms the basis of a new proposal presented to industry leaders and transport operators in Australia’s South West Victoria, put together by industrial gas company BOC, the South West Sustainability Partnership and regional transport companies. The $150 million (USD $115 million) project calls for the establishment of a micro liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant and up to six refuelling stations that will form a commercial pipeline-to-truck network for more than 120 heavy duty vehicles.
A Logistics magazine article states the proposed plant would have the capacity to produce 50 tonnes of LNG a day, the equivalent of 70,000 litres of conventional diesel.
South West Sustainability Partnership Executive Officer, Barrie Baker, and BOC General Manager LNG, Alex Dronoff, recently met industry leaders in Warrnambool to discuss the proposal, which is said to have already attracted positive interest. “We have the gas here; the plant is the missing link,” he says.
A similar micro LNG plant – the first in Australia – is in the process of being developed in Tasmania (see graphic above) . Similar plants in USA and England are producing, liquefied gas is made from recycled landfill gases.
NB – Alex Dronoff from BOC is speaking at the upcoming Gaseous Fuels Conference in Melbourne on June 15 2009.
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