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A more potent natural gas vehiclesindustry is offering clean methanefuel — in some cases biomethane —for refuse and public works vehicles.
NGVAmerica held its annualmeeting last week, right here. Nearly30 natural gas exploration and
production companies joined the association this year.
With the emergence of shale gas,the E&Ps are seeking new marketsfor methane. The U.S. NGV indus-try has new investors from overseas,jockeying for work in light duty
vehicles, while Freightliner, Mack,Navistar and Paccar all have natu-ral gas offerings for heavy duty cus-tomers. They’ve all got hybrid truckstoo, and hybrids are well representedat WasteCon and APWA as well. Much More Inside, NGVAmerica on Page 11
Methane Makes Its Case, Hybrids Here Too
“The technology works and it works very very well,”Clean Energy Fuels VP Ray Burke says of naturalgas — methane — fueled refuse trucks. “The rea-son this is growing the way it is, is that peoplehave tested it and they know that it works.”
Burke, a longtime veteran of WasteManagement, says that some 10%of replacement refuse vehicles are now natural gas-fueled.“That percentage,” hesays, “will continue togrow rapidly.”
—Clean Energyon Page 14
‘It Works Very Very Well’
Welcome to WasteCon-APWA 2010AUGUST 15, 2010
Both cost money up front, and ultimatelysave it. But in different ways.
Organizations including Calstart and National Grid are bankrolling an in-service New York City face-off of nearly halfa dozen clean truck types including naturalgas (methane) and a variety of hybrids.
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Half a dozen WasteCon exhibitors hada hand in this Crane Carrier truck, operated by Seattle’s Cleanscapes andfueled by Clean Energy. Crane is atWasteCon 2705, Cleanscapes is at 3522,and Clean Energy is at 3155.
Crane’s got a truck in the NGV Zone,too — in the heart of the WasteConshow, where 41 natural gas vehicle sup-pliers may be found.
—Refuse Awards Roundup on Page 8
Italy-based world leaders in gaseous fuelsystems have topped a series of acquisitionsin recent years with nearly $30 millionworth of new buys in the past weeks alone.
A key prize? General Motors customersas GM re-enters the natural gas (andpropane) vehicles business.
“If you can’t beat ’em, buy ’em,” says oneman close to it all. —Page 6
HybridProgress
New York City Sanitation is testing a newhybrid from Hino. SAE releases a broadnew testing standard. —Page 12
Italian Shootout
Natural Gas?Hybrid Drive?
The natural gas vehicles industr y is here: with his ISL G engine powering East Rockaway’s new Clean Cities-suppor ted Crane Carrier truck is Cummins Westpor t VP Gord Exel. To his left are some of the new and emerging Big Guns in NGVs: Chr ysler’s Mar y Jaye, GNA’s Erik Neandross, Bill Zobel of Trillium USA, Tim Boyle of ANGI, National Grid’s Ron Gulmi, Impco’s Tim Standke, Matt Weiss of Landi Renzo, consultant Alex Lawson, Bill Hoffman of Arkansas Oklahoma Gas, NGV Globalexecutive director Brett Jarman, Tom Sewell of Tulsa Gas Technologies, NGVAmerica president Rich Kolodziej, Castlen Kennedy of ‘Austin-to-Boston,’ BRC FuelMaker’s Mario Pirraglia, Dave Myers of Luxfer Gas Cylinders, Fleets & Fuels editor Rich Piellisch, Leo Thomason of AFVi, Lyle Jensen of GreenMan Technologies, John Mitton of Natural Drive, GreenMan’s Bob Natkin, Bradley Trembath of NatGasCar, Gerry Esper of Chrysler, Bill Calvert of BAF Technologies, Ron Eickelman of Fab-AFV Fleet Service, Elizabeth Munger of Honda, Freightliner’s Bob Carrick, Yukari Tanimoto of Lincoln Composites, Long Island Freightliner dealer Peter Nettesheim, Clean Energy’s Greg Roche, John Coursen of Worthington-SCI (his Type III fuel cylinders are on the truck),and John Gilbrook of National Grid.
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Three individuals and three organizations went homewith 2010 National NGV Achievement Awards fromthe NGVAmerica (and affiliate Clean Vehicle Educa-tion Foundation) National NGV Summit here last week: • Republic Services VP Joseph Noorlag, “for his efforts thisyear in deploying 226 refuse vehicles at 10 facilities fromCalifornia to Washington.” Republic is at WasteCon 3137.• Choice Environmental Services of Fort Lauderdale “for itsefforts as a small independent company to implement thefirst natural gas vehicle refuse fleet of 11 trucks in Florida.”
• Ron Gulmi, transportation product manager for NationalGrid (3188 in the NGV Zone), “for his long-time commitmentto advancing the growth of natural gas vehicles throughoutthe Northeast.” • The telcom Verizon, which will add 501 CNG cargo vansto its fleet of vehicles this year. • The Los Angeles Unified School District in California forgreening of its school bus fleet. • Oklahoma Speaker of the House Chris Benge, for advancing NGVs and helping pass the Oklahoma Energy Security Act with the goal of having at least one public CNGstation every 100 miles by 2015.
Natural Gas Vehicles for America is proud to welcome attendees to WasteCon/APWA combined exposition.
And we look forward to seeing youat our 12,500 square foot NGV Zonebecause we know you have been hear-ing about the money that fleets aresavings by switching to clean-burn-ing natural gas. Waste collection andtransfer vehicles account for about 11percent of total vehicular natural gasuse and are the fastest growing NGVsegment. And municipalities are arapidly growing buyer of NGVs. Reports of new NGV deployments arecoming in from all over the country:
Waste Management counts morethan 900 NGVs in its fleet.
Republic Services, Inc., this yearadded 226 natural gas vehicles at its 10 facilities from California toWashington.
Choice Environmental Servicesbecame the first natural gas refusefleet in Florida.
Smithtown, N.Y., continues itscommitment to cleaning up the airwith 37 vehicles in its fleet operat-ing on natural gas, including dump
trucks and a street sweeper, plus 22refuse vehicles under contract.
Kansas City, Missouri, fuels morethan 200 compressed cars, trucks andvans at the city’s CNG station.
Why? NGVs save money on fuel.The favorable cost differential
between diesel fuel and natural gassignificant and probably will grow.The differential between the pumpprices of diesel fuel and natural gas,which ranges between 20 and 45 per-cent, is projected to grow as oil pricesrise and natural gas price remainsteady, making natural gas very eco-nomically attractive for medium andheavy-duty vehicles.
NGVs run cleaner and quieter.Natural gas vehicles provide the
greatest emission reductions and related environmental benefits of allavailable alternatives — includingdiesel hybrid technology. When usedas transportation fuel, natural gas canreduce greenhouse gas emissions by20-23 percent and 26–29 percentcompared with diesel and gasolinefueled vehicles, respectively, accord-ing to studies by the California AirResources Board.
NGVs will equal — if not exceed— diesel vehicles in terms of dura-bility, performance and reliability.
Today’s natural gas engines usestate-of-the-art fuel management andcombustion control technology. Cur-rent 2010-compliant heavy-duty engines deliver torque and horse-power similar or better than diesel and use maintenance-free 3-way cat-alyst exhaust systemswithout maintenance-intensive particulate fil-ters and DEF systems.Natural gas’ low carboncontent translates intolonger oil change inter-vals, less engine wearand longer engine life.
NGVs reduce thiscountry’s reliance onforeign oil in favor ofabundant domestic natural gas.
T. Boone Pickens is right. Thiscountry can reduce its dependenceon foreign oil by fueling heavy-dutyvehicles with natural gas. We arespending $365 billion a year in for-eign oil. Meanwhile, about 98 per-cent of all natural gas consumed inthe US comes from North America,and there is at least a 100 year sup-ply of natural gas. That’s good forjobs, for the economy and for the environment.What’s next?
There may be “biomethane” inyour future. Biomethane, or renew-able natural gas, can be producedfrom any organic waste material. It’soccurs naturally in landfills and it canreduce greenhouse gases by over 90percent. Waste Management expects
to fuel 300 of its LNG-powered refuse trucks with fuel it producesfrom its Altamont Landfill near Livermore, California. And more ad-vances are coming: CNG-hydraulicand CNG-electric hybrid technolo-gies are being field tested today andsoon be ready for market soon.Learn more
During this year’s conference, weinvite you to take aroad trip through theNGV Zone on theWasteCon side of theshow floor, where 41of the world’s leadingnatural gas vehicle,equipment and serv-ice suppliers will be onhand to show you thelatest technology andanswer all your ques-tions.
Rich KolodziejPresident NGVAmerica
Clean Energy Fuels president and CEO Andrew Littlefair is NGVAmerica chairman
Rich Kolodziej
Waste Management-Linde landfill gas-based LNG plant in Altamont, Calif.
NGVAmerica Courts the Refuse Truck Market
PublisherKirk Fetzer
EditorRich Piellisch
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“If you can’t beat ’em, buy ’em.” Fuel SystemsSolutions, Inc. (FSYS) said this month that it’sbuying Indiana’s Productive Concepts Inter-national for $11.1 million, just weeks after General Motors said it had tapped PCI to outfit GM vans for natural gas operation.
GM said in May that it was re-enteringNGVs, and would employ “a single-invoice, second-stage manufacturing process” to do so.Propane vans are promised for early 2011, andadditional vehicle models are expected.
FSYS has been on an expansion drive, recentlyacquiring Canada’s bankrupt FuelMaker, the GFIgaseous vehicles line, and the Argentinean NGVoutfitter Tomasetto Achille. FSYS has a strongmarket position in Europe with MTM-BRC(which supplies Ford NGVs and propane vehi-cles), and its U.S. subsidiary Impco has returnedto transportation markets with a raft of GM qual-ifications and U.S. EPA certifications of bi-fuelvehicle systems.
Impco is believed to have sought the GM upfit
work. Instead, GM tapped PCI (with calibra-tion by Utah’s Natural Drive). So Impco parentFSYS is buying PCI. “The addition of PCI es-tablishes our leadership position in this evolv-ing market,” said FSYS CEO MarianoCostamagna.
“The strategic fit between PCI and Impco isexcellent,” said FSYS president Matthew Beale.
“The combined business will be positionedto offer OEM and fleet customers a fully-integrated package.” Impco is at WasteCon 2981in the NGV Zone. Natural Drive is showing aSilverado pickup at 3179.
FSYS Buys PCI, Gets GM Upfit Work
Landi Buys Baytech,Gets GM CertificationsLandi Renzo USA (WasteCon 3083), the Americanarm of Italy’s world-leading supplier of gaseousfuel systems, has acquired California’s Baytech,immediately gaining a raft of U.S. EPA- and, es-pecially, California-certified natural gas systemsfor General Motors and GM affiliate vehicles.
The purchase price is $15 million.“Baytech’s CARB certifications are consid-
ered par ticularly relevant, as they are only obtainable through a very long, complex and expensive process,” Landi Renzo said.
The buy “allows us to quicklycapture market opportunitiesthrough certified platforms already in Baytech’s portfolio”(emphasis added), said LandiRenzo USA president AndreaLandi. “Baytech knowhow will
also be very useful in developing and certify-ing gaseous fuel injection systems for platformsother than General Motors.”
Baytech had a cash position of $412,000at the end of 2009, Landi says, and total assets of $711,000. Baytech’s 2009 revenueswere $2.5 million, with a corrected before-taxprofit of $928,000.
Landi Renzo USA was established last yearand has a conversion and development facilityin Torrance, Calif. — grand opening September 9.Parent Landi Renzo this summer acquired theautomotive electronics specialist AEB.
In addition to its efforts in gaseous fuels, whereLandi Renzo holds a world-leading passenger ve-hicle market share of 32%, the company recentlypublicized work on a hybrid electric drive retrofitproduct, with individual wheel motors, under therubric SIER, for Sistema Ibrido Elettrico Retrofit.
Diesel-Metano – Landi Renzo took dual fuel to thelight duty segment this year, exhibiting a Fiat Doblovan outfitted for diesel-natural gas operation atthe NGV2010Roma world natural gas vehiclesmeeting in Italy.
Andrea Landi
GM is expected to offer gaseous fuels on more than vans.
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This key event will bring together leaders of the US biogas industry to
examine how to develop commercially successful biogas projects and
address the latest technological advances in production.
Delegates will learn from best practice case studies from government
representatives, biogas producers, utilities and biogas users and
gain a clear understanding of the current federal policy framework,
investment criteria, project start up requirements, plant optimization
and upgrading biogas for injection into national gas grids.
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Is it better to go with hybrid trucks, which usestraight diesel fuel (or biodiesel) but can cost morethan twice as much as conventional vehicles? Or optfor natural gas trucks, which have a more modestpurchase premium but require access to — or investment in — fueling infrastructure and such facility enhancements as methane detection systems?
A test in New York may help settle the issue.There, different types of 72,000-lb GVW refusetruck, including a compressed natural gas hydraulichybrid, will be evaluated in regular New York CityDepartment of Sanitation route operation.
The hybrids “represent the first of their kind inthat weight class,” says NYC’s Spiro Kattan.
The test, supported by organizations as far-flungas National Grid (WasteCon 3188; the gas utility hereon Boston) and Pasadena, Calif.-based Calstart,which runs Hybrid Truck Users Forum programsand the annual HTUF conference with U.S. ArmyNational Automotive Center support, are backingthe study. The study will compare performance,emissions, fuel economy, and noise. It will consti-tute “an apples-to-apples, in-service comparison,”says Ron Gulmi of National Grid.
The trucks to be tested share the LET 2 platformby Crane Carrier (WasteCon 3282). A straight dieselLET 2 will be compared with a diesel with a hydraulic hybrid drivetrain by Bosch Rexroth, andwith another fueled by CNG. Also in the trial is aCrane LET 2 with a series hybrid electric drive-trains by San Diego-based ISE (with ultracapaci-tors in lieu of batteries).
National Grid hopes to add a non-hybrid CNG-fueled truck to the trial. “We think we have themoney,” Gulmi said here Thursday.
Data will be complied by New West Technologies.Greg Wilcox is project manager there.
“NYC is our shining example,” says Richard Parish of Calstart. His Hybrid Refuse Truck Working Group (one of more than half a dozen underthe HTUF umbrella), has developed a commonhybrid refuse chassis specification as it collects dutycycle and refuse market data — like the data fromNew York — to support business case develop-
ment. Once in hand, the groupwill redouble its efforts to get agroup sanitation fleets to pooltheir purchase funds andthereby establish an early econ-omy of scale. A similar HTUFinitiative in utility bucket trucksled to commercialization ofNavistar International vehicleswith hybrid drivetrains byEaton. Also profiting was Altec
Industries (APWA 350), whichsupplies aerial lifts for the so-called HTUF Navistar vehicles.
Calstart’s next HTUF meet-ing is slated for September28-30 in Dearborn, Mich.
Crane Carrier, by the way, issupplying 20 CNG-fueledLET 2 trucks to New York.Ten entered service last year.
New York City Face-OffNew York City has three refuse trucks in service with hydraulichybrid drivetrains by Bosch Rexroth. At least two more areexpected to be placed in service, in Texas and Virginia, inthe coming months, and there are ten in trials in Europe(mostly in Germany).
The hydraulic hybrid by Bosch Rexroth employs gas com-pressed in an accumulator instead of electricity in a battery(or ultracapacitor) to effect regenerative braking. The tech-nology, which totally eliminates battery life issues, is espe-cially suitable for heavy vehicles with a start-stop duty cycle— i.e. garbage trucks.
The hydraulic accumulators used for such vehicles arepackaged in CNG tank-like shells, and represent a new mar-ket opportunity for CNG tank manufacturers, too. LincolnComposites, exhibiting at WasteCon 3171, is among the CNGcylinder suppliers that supplied such shell to major OEMs.
Bosch Rexroth Hybrids: 15-Plus
New York City’s CNG-fueledCrane LET 2 with hydraulic hybrid drive by Bosch Rexroth. National Grid helped buy it.
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The U.S. Department of Energy designated 25 win-ners of some $300 million worth of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act awards under itsClean Cities program last year, and a good pro-portion of the money is funding cleaner refusetrucks, especially natural gas-fueled vehicles.
“This year is the year of natural gas,” GreaterNew Haven Clean Cities Coalition coordinator LeeGrannis said here Thursday at the NGV Summit.
Among the various pending contracts, Con-necticut is to see deployment of 18 heavy-duty LNGrefuse trucks with Clean Cities support, as well asseven new CNG stations, including the first LCNGfacility on the East Coast (in Bridgeport), plus anupgrade to an existing CNG station in Norwich.DoE estimates that the initiative will help displace1.4 million gallons of petroleum annually.
The New Jersey Clean Cities Coalition is coor-dinating deployment of 277 CNG garbage trucksand four new fueling stations throughout Newark,
Camden, Trenton, Atlantic City,and Egg Harbor. DoE estimates thatthe project will help displace 1.8 mil-lion gallons of petroleum annually.
Chicago’s Department of Envi-ronment, with participants includ-ing the Gas Technology Institute,is getting help deploying more than550 alternative fuel and hybrid elec-tric vehicles. Groot Industries is to
get $500,000 to help offset the cost of its 20 newMack TerraPro CNG trucks, and expand an exist-ing Gas Equipment Systems, Inc. (WasteCon 3079 inthe NGV Zone) CNG fueling station. Waste Man-agement is in line for 11 CNG trucks by Autocar(WasteCon 3631). DoE estimates that the project will helpdisplace 3 million gallons of petroleum per year.
The Greater Long Island Clean Cities Coalition’sproject involves five new public-access CNG sta-tions and deployment of 87 heavy-duty trucksthroughout Nassau and Suffolk counties: 44 CNGrefuse trucks, 40 heavy-duty CNG dump trucks,and three heavy-duty CNG trucks. Oyster Bay isto get 45 heavy duty and refuse trucks with ARRAfunding, reports Rita Ebert of GLICCC. NassauCounty is retrofitting 15 heavy duty Internationaltrucks and purchasing 39 Ford F150 pickups and 8International sweepers, she says. Ten Autocar trucks
have been ordered (five re-ceived, for V. Garofalo Carting).East Rockaway is getting twoCrane trucks (one is picturedbelow at the NGV Summit).DoE estimates that the project willhelp displace 351,000 gallons of petroleum annually.
In Idaho, The Treasure Val-ley Clean Cities Coalition isworking to replace 28 heavy-duty diesel refuse trucks withCNG trucks, with fueling attwo Allied Waste locations. DoEestimates that the initiative will help displace 255,000gallons of petroleum annually.
Atlanta Clean Cities is coordinating a DeKalbCounty project to convert local landfill gas toCNG and develop five CNG fueling stations.Bids are expected to be invited shortly. The proj-ect also includes a B20 biodiesel station. Part-ners will purchase a total of 191 commerciallyavailable light- to heavy-duty alternative-fueland advanced-technology vehicles, DoE says.
DoE estimates that the project will help displace490,000 gallons of petroleum annually.
A new Clean Cities solicitation for $35 mil-lion is expected by year-end, Marcy Rood Werpyof DoE’s Argonne National Lab said hereThursday. As proposed, however, $20 million isfor electric vehicle work.
Southern California’s Gladstein, Neandross &Associates helped write 11 of the 25 winningClean Cities proposals.
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Getting the message out: Early example of an expected 272 CleanCities-backed CNG trucks for New Jersey. ACUA is the AtlanticCounty Utilities Authority.
Allied Waste is getting the word out in Idaho.
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McKinney, Texas-based Emission Solutions, Inc. (WasteCon 3283 in the NGV Zone)has persevered with development of Navistar engines that run solely on natural gas,and can claim much of the credit for bringing a perennially skeptical Navistar International into the NGV fold. Standout customers include the City of Dallas for24 ESI-powered refuse and dump trucks with ten more on the way.
Beginning this year, the company says, dedicated-natural gas Navistar trucks withESI engines, now available through selected dealers, will become direct-factory prod-ucts, with installation in 7000-series WorkStar trucksbeginning next month at Navistar’s plant in Garland,Texas. By year-end or early 2011, ESI-poweredversions of series-4000 DuraStar trucks will be avail-able from Navistar’s plant in Springfield, Ohio, saysESI president and co-founder Jim Moore.
“Everything we’re doing on new trucks throughdealers is temporary,” he says.
ESI’s bread-and-butter product is the stoichio-metric and turbocharged Phoenix NG 7.6L, basedon 1995-and-later DT 466 diesel engines (now updated and sold as the Maxxforce DT), fully certified for methane operation.
ESI hopes by year-end to have won U.S. EPA andCalifornia certification of the 9.3-liter Maxxforce 10,a more powerful (350-horsepower) engine which willboost ESI-powered Navistar trucks in sectors including waste collection. Both the 7.6- and 9.3-liter engine are in-line 6-cylinder products.
Next on ESI’s short list is a natural gas version ofa NavistarV-8, Moore says, being developed with the
support of BP as part of the oil firm’s Texas City accident settlement. Certification is expected in mid-2011. And ESI will start work next year, Moore saidin Boston Thursday, and a dedicated-natural gas ver-sion of Navistar’s 12.4-liter Maxxforce 13 Big Bore.
“They will all be offered from the factory,” he says. ESI’s key supplier for engine electronics is
Calgary’s Alternative Fuel Systems. Most of the trucks being put in service with ESI
engines have Enviromech fuel systems. Enviromechuses lightweight tanks from suppliers including Wor-thington-SCI and Luxfer. All three ESI supplier firmsare exhibiting in the NGV Zone here.
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ESI’s natural gas-fueled Phoenix 7.6L engine is based on theMaxxforceDT diesel.
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CNG fuel system supplier Enviromech and lightweight cylin-der manufacturer Luxfer are showing a tank assembly in aplexiglas cabinet in the NGV Zone.
The 75 diesel gallon equivalent CNG rig is on a caboverLET 2 chassis by Crane Carrier. It employs five carbon fiber-on-aluminum (Type III) Luxfer cylinders.
“We wanted to show people that there’s something behind the box,” says Enviromech president Joe Pike.
“There’s a fine engineering excellence at work here.” The display shows how the cylinders are connected using
Swagelok fittings and valves byEmer, of Italy (where Enviromechand Luxfer have a joint venture).It also shows structural fittingsengineered by Enviromech andmanufactured in Kelowna, B.C.
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Honda Is Going National with Dedicated-CNG Civic GX
“We’re taking the car national,” Honda alt fuelssales manager Eric Rosenberg says of thefirm’s Civic GX, still the only dedicated-compressed natural gas passenger vehicle offered by an OEM in the U.S.
All interesteddealers will beable to handle theCNG car, Rosen-berg says — approximately 1,000 will be of-fered the opportunity later this month.
“Currently we have 137 dealers,” Rosen-berg told F&F ShowTimes Friday, “and expectto grow the network by another 50 to 65.”
Retail sales had been limited to California,New York and Utah, with Oklahoma added thispast spring. Honda is at WasteCon 3186.
National Fleet Services of Ohio was at Thursday-Friday’s National NGV Summit showing a FordTransit Connect van outfitted for dedicated-CNGoperation using equipment from Florida’s EvoTek(WasteCon 3175 in the NGV Zone).
National Fleet is based next to the Ford assembly plant in Avon Lake, Ohio and boasts fullship-through capability. The firm offers E-150through -450 series vans, which it upfits prior todelivery to customers’ Ford dealers. Vehicles mustbe ordered with sales code 91G indicating agaseous fuel (CNG or propane) prep engine.
National Fleet Services president Tim LaRivierewith sales director Ken Baranski
Joe Pike of Enviromechand Dave Myers of Luxfer
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“Everything is in place, and that revolution isreally taking place,” NGVA America presidentRich Kolodziej said as the association, its ranksand coffers swollen this year by 29 new natu-ral gas exploration and production memberscompanies, held its 2010 National Conference-Summit to precede WasteCon and the Amer-ican Public Works Association meetings here.
The E&P companies, seeking markets fortheir shale gas-engorged reserves, have cometo view natural gas vehicle as the answer. U.S.automakers, sensing a sea-change, are now pro-moting natural gas vehicles.
“North America is the Middle East for nat-ural gas,” said Gerry Esper, of Chrysler, which
under Fiat ownership has been hinting at plansfor NGVs in the U.S. Fiat sold 130,000 CNG-gasoline cars in Italy alone last year, Esper said.
“We would like to see [government] incen-tives for bi-fuel vehicles,” Esper said.
Ford offers “gaseous-prep” engine withhardened valves, and calibration advice to con-verters. “Natural gas is very important to us. Itis part of our strategy,” said commercial vehi-cles program manager Milton Wong.
GM is offering complete CNG vans, begin-ning later this year, tapping an Indiana upfit-ter (which was quickly acquired by a gaseousfuels specialist, see page 6) to complete the vehicles.
“For the first time, everything seems to bein place,” said Nick Stavropolous, gas opera-tion VP with National Grid, the host utilityhere ion Boston.
Attendees, many of them long-time advo-cates, said they sense that things are differentduring this current industry surge. “It’s goingto work this time,” said Bob Strickland, cleantransportation manager at Alabama’s Alagasco.
Revolutionizing America’s Transportation wasthe official NGVAmerica conference theme.
‘Revolutionizing America’s Transportation’
The Fuel, The Fuel
NGV Global’s Brett Jarman fills up in Zurich.
“There’s interest all over America in nat-ural gas now,” Freightliner sales chief BobCarrick said at the NGV Summit here Friday. But, he said. “The fueling infra-structure is a travesty.” For far too manycustomers, “There is no fuel.”
“It is the biggest impediment we face.Without the fueling infrastructure you can’tsell them. You can’t give them away. Ifwe had the fuel, this thing would take offlike you wouldn’t believe. All you need isfuel. It’s that simple. It really is.”
The special characteristics of CNGand CNG fueling make the problem worse,said Long Island Freightliner presidentPeter Nettesheim. “One of the biggestchallenges we have is fuel capacity,” hesaid. A system rated at 75 diesel equiva-lent gallons only holds that 75 DGE if fullpressure of 3,600 psi is attained — andoften it is not.
“In ideal conditions it’s 75 DGE,”Nettesheim said. “The problem is, we cannever get ideal conditions.”
CNG fueling provider Tim Boyle of ANGI(WasteCon 3275 in the NGV Zone) said thepressure problem has been solved. Freight-liner at 3067, also in the Zone.
“This is probably the most exciting market in theworld and is growing into the most important mar-ket in the world,” says Brett Jarman, executivedirector of NGV Global, the world trade associa-tion. He’s here from Australia, jubilant that theworld’s biggest economy appears to be em-bracing NGVs for real. “Replacing oil use in trans-port with natural gas on a large scale in the U.S.”Jarman says, “will have resounding ef fectsaround the world including immediate reductionsin greenhouse emissions and addressing theeconomic instability of relying on crude oil, a fuelwhich so few countries have in surplus.”
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LNG for the U.S. SoutheastAs part of a growing trend of big-name companies embrac-ing alternative fuels, the natural gas providers El Paso Corpand AGL Resources (Atlanta Gas Light)have teamed to form Southeast LNG.“We plan to develop infrastructure to fuel and service thismarket segment with LNG,” said Bruce Hughes, who is topreside over the new venture. He most recently headed El Paso’s Southern Natural Gas unit. Federal approvals andlocal permits are the priority now. Fleets & Fuels, August 9
Mayors Like Natural Gas Vehicles“The diversification of transportation fuel sources wouldhelp the United States meet rapidly growing domestic andglobal energy demands, reduce the United States’ depend-ency on oil imported from foreign countries, stabilize thecost and availability of energy in America, safeguard theeconomy and security of the United States, and facilitate thefuture growth of hydrogen vehicle transportation founda-tion by building out natural gas fueling corridors,” theU.S. Conference of Mayors said. Fleets & Fuels, June 28
Capstone Turbines for Truck OEMsCalifornia’s Capstone is talking up a testof its fuel-versatile turbine-based hybridelectric drive with a big-name builderof heavy duty trucks. The drives include
mobile-hardened versions of Parker Hannifin industrial motors. Separately, as part of a $3 million project backed bythe California Energy Commission, Capstone will developa larger turbine to be tested in a natural gas-fueled Kenworthhybrid truck in 2012. Fleets & Fuels, August 9
Volvo Taps Dual Fuel SpecialistsVolvo (patent of Mack Truck) has tightened ties to West-port Innovations and Clean Air Power, as it evaluates duelfuel technology for running diesel engines mostly on natural gas, preserving the efficient sparkless diesel cycle.
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It won’t be available until at least 2013, but the CumminsWestport joint venture (WasteCon 3077) is planning a dedicated-natural gas, spark-ignition version of the newISX11.9 diesel engine from Cummins.
Cummins reported U.S. EPA and California certifica-tion of the diesel engine to 2010 limits on July 20, and saidit will commence full production in August.
“The ISX11.9 is designed for rigorous duty cycles, including those for work trucks such as dump and mixer trucks, and refuse applications,” Cummins said, noting technology draw from the 15-liter ISX15,which is offered as a natural gas-diesel engine by Westport Innovations.
Cummins promises horsepower ratings of 310-450 and torque ranging from1150-1650 lb-ft for the ISX11.9, depending on vehicle application, for thenew diesel engine.
Cummins Westport has California Energy Commission and Gas Technol-ogy Institute support for development of the natural gas spark-ignition variant.
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SAE International has published a new standard for measuring the exhaust emis-sions and fuel economy of hybrid and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.
“Until now, the fuel economy claims for plug-in hybrids were not calculatedaccording to similar procedures,” Michael Duoba, an automotive engineer withthe U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, says in an SAErelease. Duoba chaired the SAE panel that developed the new standard, whichis designated J1711. J1711, SAE says, “provides procedures to more consistentlyevaluate these vehicles under a wider range of evaluation cycles, and offers atechnology-neutral way allowing potential fuel savings.”
J1711 establishes uniform chassis dynamometer test procedures for hybrid-electric vehicles. It is formally known as the Recommended Practice for Measur-ing the Exhaust Emissions and Fuel Economy of Hybrid Electric Vehicles, including Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles. Fleets & Fuels, July 12
SAE Hybrid Testing Standard
“We’re targeting a five-year paybackwithout government subsidies,” saysGlenn Ellis, sales and marketing VP withToyota’s Hino Motors Sales U.S.A.
Hino resumed ef for ts to bring its hybrid electric vehicles to America thisyear, showing a light-duty diesel hybridcab-over-engine model with 16-foot vanbody and 14,500-lb GVW in New York.
The parallel drive prototype vehiclewith nickel metal hydride batteries isentering parts delivery trials with the5,500-vehicle New York City Departmentof Sanitation. “We’re starting to seepenetration in the different markets,”observes New York’s Spiro Kattan.
He operates some 2,200 refusetrucks, including a recently delivered
Crane CarrierLET 2 truck withhydraulic hybriddrive by BoschRexroth — CNG-fueled (page 7).
“Hino expectsto offer its nextgeneration hybrid Class 4 and 5 COEtrucks in the U.S. in the near future,”states a company release.
The firm says it’s already producedmore than 9,800 hybrid buses andtrucks, and “is looking forward to itsmilestone 10,000th hybrid vehicle bythe end of 2010.”
Hino Trucks is at APWA 165.Fleets & Fuels, May 31 & July 26
Hino Is Bringing on the Hybrids
Cummins’ new11.9-liter diesel
Hino hybrid on show in Flushing Meadows,New York City
CWI Plans Natural Gas ISX11.9
Southern California’s Gas Equipment Systems,Inc. (WasteCon 3079 in the NGV Zone) continuesto grow, having this year broadened its productline by adding BRC FuelMaker compressors withcapacities up to 1,000 standard cubic feet perminute, allowing for faster fill for refuse indus-try fleets.
BRC is a unit of Fuel System Solutions, Inc.which also owns Impco (2981), a provider of bi-fuel vehicle conversion systems, primarily
for General Motors vehicles. Among severalrecent acquisitions (seepage 6), BRC bought the FuelMaker line of small
vehicle refueling appliances and the Phill homefueler last year, and is applying the FuelMakername to its existing large compressor line.
GESI is now the exclusive distributor and pack-ager of the high capacity compressors for all ofthe U.S. The oil-free compressors are three-stage,mechanical piston units with an optional hydraulic booster. Direct drive electric motorpower capacity varies from 75 to 270 horsepower.The W-shape design allows for slow rotationspeeds and enhanced durability.
“In the USA we see a market with great potential for BRC FuelMaker’s high capacitycompressors,” said sales and marketing directorMario Pirraglia (a FuelMaker veteran). The pactwith GESI, he said, allows the parent companyto “consolidate our product offering… Our
expectation with this partnership is tobecome a leader in this marketplace.”
In addition to BRC, GESI handlesGardner Denver and Ingersoll-Randcompressor packages. The company hasbuilt or serviced more than 150 CNGlocations during the past 12 years. GESIprovides a range of CNG fueling station services including methane detection system upgrades for natural
gas vehicle maintenance garages. Most of GESI’s installations are in California,
including Burrtec Waste Industries in the PalmSprings area.
But the firm is branching out. GESI provideda CNG fueling installation for Groot Industriesin Illinois (the lead customer for Mack’s new ProTerra natural gas trucks), as well as an instal-lation for factory fills at the Dodge Center, Minn.factory of McNeilus Trucks.
McNeilus (WasteCon 3166), a unit of OshkoshCorp, offers factory CNG refuse trucks and, morerecently, concrete mixers.
GESI Is Now Handling Larger BRC Compressors
GESI time-fill CNG installa-tion fuels vehicles forGroot Industries in Illinois.
Gas Equipment Systems, Inc. president Larry Ozierwith BRC GM Max Fissore (right) at NGV2010Roma,June’s world natural gas vehicles meeting in Italy.
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“The solid waste sector is probably our fastestgrowing sector,” says Ray Burke, VP at Clean
Energy Fuels of Seal Beach, Calif. Clean Energy (WasteCon 3155),
founded by Boone Pickens andnow a public company, is the vol-ume leader in natural gas vehiclefueling, and according to Burkeis gathering momentum in the re-
fuse sector, especially for compressed natural gas. From 1997 to 2009, Clean Energy built 15
refuse sector fueling stations, Burke told F&FShowTimes, in California, New York and Texas.So far in 2010, there are 15 on the books to bebuilt, “and the year is not even done.”
Put another way, Clean Energy built one refuse sector station in 2007 (when Burke joinedthe company), two in 2008, and eight in 2009.
“We’re in 12 states now,” he says. “It’s obvi-ously taking off.”
The reason? Once fleets make the commit-ment to methane, their fuel is cheaper by the gallon than diesel. “On average we’re saving adollar in today’s market,” Burke says. “It’s morethan that in certain regions,” he adds.
“It gets as low as 70¢ in some areas and a buck-fifty in others. But one dollar is a good average.”
Clean Energy recently won out as the natural
gas supplier to Phoenix-based Republic Services(WasteCon 3137), which said in April that it willadd 226 natural gas-powered trucks, represent-ing some 20% of its orders this year, at ten sitesin California, Washington and Idaho. Clean Energy will build CNG stations at Gardena, SunValley and Chula Vista, Calif., and in Bellevue,Wash. It already fuels Republic in Boise.
The 20% rate of methane trash truck buys willlikely continue in 2010, or slightly increase,said Republic fleet chief Roy Svehla. “We’re see-ing demand for natural gas vehicles in non-traditional parts of the country,” he told F&F,naming the Northeast, Florida, and Houston.
In June, Clean Energy said it would supply Republic in Southern California, ConsolidatedDisposal in Los Angeles, and Solano Garbage(Fairfield, Calif.) through April 2015, support-ing waste collection and recycling in 55 California cities and communities. The annualLNG requirement “is expected to exceed 3.5 mil-lion LNG gallons,” Clean Energy said.
For future growth, “Long Island is very sim-ilar to Southern California, says Burke. “Most ofthe cities franchise and contract out their serv-ices, and they require natural gas.” Smithtown,Huntington and Brook Haven, L.I. are expectedto be followed by Babylon and Oyster Bay.
“The Chicago market is starting to heat up,”with Waste Management and Republic comingin, Burke says, noting that Groot Industries (a Gas Equipment Systems, Inc. customer) isalready using CNG.
CleanScapes (WasteCon 3522) in Seattle may befollowed by Bellevue and Kent, while AlpineWaste & Recycling in Denver may be followedby Western Disposal in Boulder. In a given re-gion, “As soon as you have one on board, othersjoin in,” Burke says. Newark & Philadelphia arelooking at CNG for their garbage too, he adds.
Clean Energy is increasing its work in bio-methane too. It produces 40,000 gallons per dayfrom the McComma’s Bluff landfill in Dallas.
Clean Energy Likes the Refuse Sector
“Their skid packages are a sweet spot forrefuse fleets,” says Clean Energy Fuels VPRay Burke, noting that his firm’s recent acquisition of Canada’s IMW Industries bringsgreater integration and a fuller Clean Energyproduct offering for refuse truck fueling. “It’sstrategic for us,” Burke told F&F Show Times.
“We are teaming up with the best in the busi-ness to drive global NGV expansion,” CleanEnergy president and CEO Andrew Littlefairsaid as his hard-charging firm disclosed a dealto acquire IMW (WasteCon 3083 in the NGV Zone)for $125 million plus a cash earn-out.
“During the economic slowdown of the lastcouple of years, while other companieswere retrenching, IMW aggressively expandedits sales and service organization,” Littlefairsaid in the acquisition announcement.
“This acquisition transforms Clean Energyboth in terms of capability and geographicreach.” IMW has provided equipment for morethan 1,000 CNG installations in 20-plus coun-tries, Clean Energy says.
Clean Energy also now owns BAF Tech-nologies (WasteCon 3167 in the NGV Zone),which converts Ford vehicles to dedicated-natural gas operation for high-volume cus-tomers including AT&T. BAF is working on duelfuel applications, and is otherwise expanding.
‘A Sweet Spot for Refuse Fleets’
Deliveries increased 31% during the secondquarter just ended, and revenue rose nearly58%, Clean Energy said Monday.
For the first six months of 2010, deliveriesof CNG, LNG, biomethane and fuel for opera-tions and maintenance services increased 42%to 59.7 million gasoline gallon equivalents, the
company said, up from 42.0 million gallons inthe first six months of 2009.
“We remain encouraged with the direction ofour business and our industry overall,” saidClean Energy president and CEO Andrew Littlefair. He cited the refuse sector as an areaof “continued growth.”
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