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Autocar Is Launching a CNGHydraulic Hybrid for 2011“This time next year, mid-summer,we intend to introduce the hybridRunWise system on CNG power,”says Autocar sales manager CliffBuck. Clients are getting the goodnews here, he says.
That means a truck that not onlyburns clean compressed natural gasfuel, but far less of it, through use
of a “RunWise” hydraulic hybriddrivetrain (from Parker Hannifin).
CNG emits better than 20% lessgreenhouse gas than diesel, Bucksays. Tests of the RunWise hybridover five years show a further 45%fuel savings, he says, with brake lifeextended 800 to 900%. Instead ofevery 90 days, “Now you’re going tobe doing a brake job every two anda half years,” Buck says.
Autocar already claims the lead inClass 8 low cab forward refuse truckspowered by natural gas, as it expectsto deliver more than 1,000 methanetrucks in 2010, approximately dou-ble its volume of two years ago.
Meanwhile 11 of Autocar’s diesel-fueled Xpeditor E3 RunWise hydraulic hybrid trucks are enteringservice next month with threeFlorida fleets. —Page 6
Hybrid? Natural Gas? Soon You Can Have It All
Acting Minutemen Jeremy Dormitzer,his brother Justin, and their dad Paul(with musket) pose with Freight-liner sales chief Bob Carrick andCummins Westport VP GordExel. Freightliner has nowsold approximately 650natural gas truckslike the M2 onshow at Waste-Con 3067 inthe NGVZone.
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Another of the world’s largest liquefied nat-ural gas fueling stations will open nextmonth in Los Angeles. It will support agrowing fleet of LNG-fueled garbagetrucks. —Page 4
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Then first Freightliner truck to be set upwith retrofit-suitable hydraulic hybrid dri-vetrain, the HLA by Eaton, is on show here.
—Page 7
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Craig Teune, sales chief Cliff Buck, Jon Loftis and Brian Rhoades of Autocar with CNG-fueled Xpeditor truck with body by Labrie.
Billy Malone of Georgia’s DeKalb County is anational leader in landfill-derived biomethanefor fueling vehicles. —Page 10
Clean Truck Revolution!Veteran supplier of high-capacity CNG fueling installations seeks a larger role inthe world of waste. —Page 11
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Opening next month, largely to sup-port Los Angeles Sanitation Bureaurefuse trucks, is another of theworld’s largest liquefied natural gasfueling stations, with LCNG equip-ment allowing it to dispense com-pressed natural gas as well.
Several companies here have ahand in the $7.3 million installa-tion at the North Central District Yard near Dodger Stadium.Chart/NexGen Fueling (WasteCon3171 in the NGV Zone) is supply-ing the North Central facility’s four15,000-gallon LNG fuel storagetanks and six LNG dispensers. TulsaGas Technologies (WasteCon 3083) issupplying a pair of two dual-hoseCNG fuel dispensers.
Clean Energy (WasteCon 3155) willsupply the LNG itself from its lique-faction plant at Boron, Calif. Prod-uct will be trucked to the NorthCentral station to support LNG andCNG vehicles.
The station will initially support“100 to 125 LNG refuse trucks,CNG street sweepers and variousother City CNGVs,” such as streetsweepers, says Erik Neandross,CEO of Santa Monica-based
Gladstein, Neandross & Associates(GNA), which designed the NorthCentral facility and helped coordi-nate the project.
Los Angeles has some 400 refusetrucks running on LNG now, saysSanitation Bureau assistant directorAlex Helou. “We’re finalizing thespec now,” he told F&F ShowTimes,for a new order for 100 LNG refusetrucks, mostly automated side-load-ers, with some front- and rear-load-ers. The plan is to replace the entireexisting diesel fleet of some 750 ve-hicles. “That’s our goal,” Helou says:“the complete conversion of the fleetto clean fuel.”
That will require more fuelingcapacity.
“I already have the biggest in theworld,” says Mark Butler, projectmanager with LA’s Department ofGeneral Services. The city’s eight-year-old East Valley station in Sunland, he says, has four 15,000-gallon liquefied natural gas storagetanks, the same capacity set-up asthe new North Central’s.
GNA shepherded the NorthCentral project with GeneralPhysics (Escondido, Calif.) as the
general contractor. The siteis expected to be among thedestinations for technicaltours as GNA hosts theACT Expo 2011 in LongBeach, Calif. April 18-20.
France-based Cryostar,which has offices in Whit-tier, Calif., Bethlehem, Pa.,and Houston, is breakinginto public-sector LNG ve-hicle fueling in Californiawith pumps and controls forNorth Central, includingtwo eight-gallon-per-
minute LCNG pumps. Cryostarsupplied equipment for Clean Energy’s new, 50,000-gallon stationserving Los Angeles ports, too.
Butler notes toothat Los Angeles is investing some $3.3 million in anupgrade of the LNGtruck maintenancefacility at the NorthCentral location.
As for the addi-tional needed ca-pacity, GNA says it’sworked with Los Angeles on its altfuel strategy since 2001, duringwhich time the city “developed morethan a half dozen natural gas fuelingstations, including what are now theworld’s largest LNG/LCNG fuel-ing stations at the city’s East Valley,West Valley and South Los Ange-les Sanitation yards.”
Three GNA-supported CNGstations supporting street sweepersand other municipal NGVs wereopened within the last year, threemore CNG stations are now underconstruction, and an additionalCNG station will soon go out to bid.
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Alex Helou of the Los Angeles Bureauof Sanitation took three Solid WasteAssociation of America awards hereSunday morning, including recogni-tion of his work on low-carbon fuelsand recycling.
LNG for the ports from Clean Energy (WasteCon 3155)
Of the 518 landfill biomethane projects in the U.S.,only three directly produce compressed natural gas(CNG) for motor vehicles, although another four anda demonstration project are under construction, ac-cording to the Argonne National Laborator y’s Marianne Mintz. The Department of Energy’s Argonne
Lab has just released its latest GREET (GreenhouseGases, Regulated Emissions and Energy Use in Trans-por tation) analytical tool which compares carbonand greenhouse gas emissions from well to wheel forvarious gas and fossil fuels.
Biomethane from landfill gases, which it shows isthe cleanest of all fuels, has been included in themodel since last year.
The GREET model can be downloaded at www.transportation.anl.gov/modeling_simulation/GREET/
Say Hello to DoE’s GREET,Keeping Tabs on Biomethane
Liquefied natural gas station near Dodge Stadium is another of the world’s largest.
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Waste Management (WasteCon 2927) and Lindeare developing their second landfill gas-basedfacility for fueling natural gas vehicles, applying$11 million in California Energy Commissionmoney to develop a plant in Simi Valley, betweenLos Angeles and Santa Barbara. The new unitwill follow on the two firms’ $15.5 million liq-uefied natural gas project at the Altamont Land-fill east of San Francisco, inaugurated last year.
“We supply over 300 of Waste Management’s700 [California] trucks,” Linde’s Bryan Luftglasssaid at NGVAmerica’s Boston conference lastweek (he spoke again at WasteCon on Satur-day). “We’ve produced 1.7 million gallons ofLNG so far,” he said. “That’s ahead of plan.”
With overall low fuel prices, however, mak-ing such facilities pay is not easy. “It’s tough tomake the economics work,” Luftglass said. “Wecan do it, but it’s a squeeze.”
“Clean-up really has been the challenge,”Luftglass said. The landfill gas “is a mess,” hesaid, with “at least 300 compounds” to bepurged from the desired methane. WM-Lindeuses a liquefaction process from the Gas
Technology Institute, he said. Steve Wilburn of Califor-
nia’s FirmGreen, of the other(very) few operators of a land-fill-gas-for-vehicles operationin the U.S., will discuss his facility at the Swaco (Solid Waste Authority ofCentral Ohio) landfill near Columbus at aWasteCon conference session on Tuesday.
FirmGreen is delivering CNG at a cost ofabout $1.60 per gasoline gallon equivalent,Wilburn told F&F ShowTimes prior to theBoston meetings.
Linde-WM for More Landfill-LNG
Autocar-Parker E3Hybrids for Hialeah,and for Miami-DadeClean vehicle stakeholders will celebrate thedeployment of 11 Autocar trucks with Heil bod-ies and RunWise brand hydraulic hybrid drive-trains by Parker Hannifin at a south Floridaceremony slated for September 15.
Autocar has an order for 11 of its E3 refusetrucks with RunWise series hydraulic hybrid drivetrains by Parker Hannifin (and Heil bodies)for the southern Florida fleets of Miami, Miami-Dade County, and Hialeah, which are taking one,six, and four trucks, respectively.
The purchases follow the first-ever field trialof an Autocar E3 by Miami-Dade, which used thetruck to service more than 2,500 householdson two garbage routes in its western district.
The City of Hialeah is the recipient of a $1.98 million energy efficiency and conserva-tion block grant under the American Recoveryand Reinvestment Act. Some of the money willsupport the purchase of the four E3 trucks andthe crafting of Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina’scity-wide energy efficiency plan.
RunWise, Parker says, “replaces a refusetruck’s conventional drive train with a series hy-brid drive system that marries the variable fea-tures of a hydrostatic drive, ideal for urbanroutes, with the ef ficient per formance of a mechanical drive that performs best at highwayspeeds.
“Fuel consumption is reduced 30% to 50%.”The vehicles are being supplied by Heil dealer
Sunbelt Hydraulics of Delray Beach.Separately, the California Energy Commission
is backing a $2 million project to demonstrateParker Hannifin’s hydraulic hybrid drive tech-nology in four Freightliner trucks to be operatedby Coca-Cola.
Heil Environmental is at WasteCon 2713. Autocar is at WasteCon 3631.
Autocar E3s with Parker Hannifin hydraulic hybrid drivetrains and Heil bodies were tested inthe Miami area prior to the 11-unit order.
Waste Management Autocar at Altamont
Why we need alternatives,says FirmGreen
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AVSG in New Hampsphire
The first Freightliner (an M2 112 chassis) witha parallel hydraulic hybrid drivetrain by Eatonis being shown by Pennsylvania’s GSP Marketing/GS-Products at WasteCon 3531.
The Eaton HLA drivetrain — for HydraulicLaunch Assist — was installed by FontaineModifications in Charlotte, N.C.
It was “a collaborative project,” says DaveBryant, Freight-liner vocationalsales manager forhybrids, betweenthe various part-ners.
A key HLA ad-vantage? “You can retrofit it on an existing chas-sis because your are not displacing the existingpowertrain,” Bryant says.
“It is a parallel system.” Eaton announced deployment of four
Peterbilt Model 320 trucks with the HLA driveand bodies by Labrie (WasteCon 2875) for recy-cling collection in Ann Arbor last month. TheMichigan deployment follows successful trials on refuse vehicles in Fort Worth and
Denver. The sys-tem “captures thetrucks’ kinetic en-ergy during brak-ing to assist inlaunching and ac-celerating the ve-hicle,” Eaton says,“recovering up to75% of the energynormally lost asheat by the vehicle’s brakes in the form of pressurized hydraulic fluid.
“This fluid is stored in an on-board accu-mulator until the driver next accelerates the vehicle, reducing fuel consumption and wearon the engine.”
Tests have shown “significant” reductions inmaintenance costs, while “brake replacementcost can potentially be reduced by four timescompared to a baseline truck.”
HLA Peterbilts have been tested by WasteManagement (WasteCon 2927) in Texas, too.
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Walter Pusic of Allianz at APWA 431.
Boston-based AVSG (WasteCon 3178), is tar-geting New Hampshire: “We’re launching amulti-point offensive,” says business devel-opment Director Mike Manning.
AVSG is working with the city of Nashua ona fueling station for eight to ten CNG refusetrucks for which an RFP was issued last week.And AVSG is in discussions with the Universityof New Hampshire at Durham, which runs adozen CNG shuttle buses, to convert its fuel-ing station to public access. Also on the NewHampshire horizon are public access fuelingstations for Concord and Manchester, whichare both planning CNG fleets of refuse trucks.
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The Cummins engine-powered, charge-sustaining hybrid system has controls byUS Hybrid. It uses lithium polymer batter-ies from Korea’s SK Energy.
Hydraulic FreightlinerA First for Eaton’s HLA
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“We are quickly bringing it in-house,” says Nate Davis, product manager for Heil Environmental (WasteCon 2713). He’s talkingabout compressed natural gas-fueled refusetrucks, which Heil is building now with the helpof an outside CNG fuel system vendor.
Heil’s plan is to do the work at its own facili-ties in Fort Payne, Ala.
The automated collection specialist offers arange of CNG vehicles, including front, readand side loaders with top-of-body fuel tanks, andrear-loaders with cab-mounted tanks.
Heil trucks are available with chassis as spec-ified (and bought) by the customer, and com-pleted by Heil. The firm also offers a program
called Ready Truck, where Heil handles it all, forcustomers needing vehicles on short notice.
The company expects future trash trucks toreflect closer relationships between chassis andbody suppliers. “CNG forces us to work closelywith the chassis manufacturer,” Davis says.
Why go with CNG? To save money on fuel. “Operating costs over a ten-year life are many
times a multiple of the purchase price,” says Heilmarketing director Ken Beaver.
When fuel is available, and/or governmentassistance to offset purchase prices, “It’s almosta no-brainer.”
Heil to Offer In-House CNG Trucks
Top-of-body compressed natural gas module on a Peterbilt-chassis Heil ‘Rapid Rail’
Heil is bringing CNG truck work home.
Lincoln CompositesDelivers First Titans
TGT’s Sewell with Oasis ball-valve nozzle.
Lincoln Composites (WasteCon 3171 in the NGVZone), which specializes in Type IV all-compos-ite compressed natural gas fuel tanks, hasshipped the first of its new Titan tanks designedfor bulk over-the-road transportation of CNG andother gases.
“They’re used as a vir tual pipeline,” says Lincoln marketing and business developmentdirector Yukari Tanimoto.
The 38 ft-long, 42 inch-diameter carbon fiberon polymer cylinders, which are much lighterthan steel, bring an 80% efficiency versus just16% for steel, she says: “With a steel tankyou’re [spending your energy] hauling thesteel instead.”
The first Lincoln Titans have gone to cus-tomers in Latin America and Southeast Asia,she said. They will be available in the U.S. oncenecessary DoE permits are secured.
Faster Fueling NozzlesTulsa Gas Technologies (WasteCon 3083), whichhas added CNC machining capability over thepast year, is promoting new three-way-valve fu-eling nozzles for compressed natural gas.
TGT’s new nozzles all use three-way valvesfrom Oasis, of New Zealand. The larger model,for maximum throughput, is available with con-nectors from Sherex or Weh (WasteCon 3089).
TGT distributes for companies including Illinois’ Advance Fuel Systems, which is pro-moting a line of imported Cirrus compressorswith U.S.-made motors and explosion-proof controls at (WasteCon 3171).
TGT’s Sewell with Oasis ball-valve nozzle.
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AFV Fleet Service has moved into a new facilityin Fontana, east of Los Angeles.
“Our new facility can accommodate up to 36refuse trucks or tractors under roof at one time,”says AFV general manager Scott Lucero. Thefirm specializes in fully-plumbed gaseous fuelsystems, especially CNG.
"We're working with customers such asFreightliner, Kenworth and Peterbilt, as well asmost of the refuse body OEMs,” Lucero told F&FShowTimes.
“Coupled with a fully fenced, 3-acre concreteyard we are able to process one hundred-plusunits per month, with room to grow,” Lucerosays. AFV’s new Fontana set-up effectively dou-ble the firm’s covered work space. The buildinghas 18 16-foot (4.9-meter) roll-up doors.
AFV Fleet Service, founded in 1991 to sup-port growing fleets of NGVs in Southern Cali-fornia, has been a unit of Brentwood, Tenn.-basedFab Industries since 2005. Ron Eickelman isFab president. Jeff Scott is COO. Paul Maderis AFV Fleet Service sales chief. Fab does fuelsystem installations in Anniston, Ala., and atcustomers’ faciltiies.
BAF Technologies will move into 2011 as a differ-ent operation as now it’s owned by Clean EnergyFuels, a public company which was founded byBoone Pickens.
“We’ve grown close to 1000% in the last threeyears,” sales chief John Sledge told F&F ShowTimesat the NGVA Summit here in Boston last week.“We’re going to do in excess of 2,500 vehicles thisyear,” he says.
BAF Technologies: Upfitter UpgradesBAF specializes in outfitting Fords for
natural gas — like the thousands of E-Series vans it’s converting for AT&Tand the hundreds for Verizon. The Dallas-based Clean Energy subsidiary ex-pects to have new U.S. EPA and Cali-fornia Air Resources Board certificationscovering F-250 and -350 trucks with 6.2-liter and F-450 and-550s with 3-valve 6.8liter engines, E-250 and -350 with 5.4-liter engines and E-450s with the 2-valve6.8, and the Ford Transit Connect with 2.0-liter engine.
BAF is also expanding its installer network, adding “multiple Ford ship-throughs.” Recently signed BAF installers include Dejana Truck & Utility Equipment inBaltimore (which specializes in the made-in-Turkey Transit Connect), and Louisville TruckEquipment in Kentucky, which handles vehi-cles from the Ford plant there. More are expected. “We’re in negotiations with some biggies,” says BAF co-founder and VP Bill Calvert.
Service and support is being boosted too:
“By the end of 2010 we will have in excess of 50 Ford dealerships for servicing BAF prod-ucts,” says Sledge.
All will be crash-tested as required in accor-dance with FMVSS rules, he says. BAF willcome into conformance with ISO standardsnext year, too Calvert says.
BAF is showing a Ford E-250 at WasteCon3167 in the NGV Zone. Parent Clean EnergyFuels is at WasteCon 3155.
AFV Fleet Service...
AFV-Fab ExpandsBAF Technologies co-founder and VP Bill Calvert and saleschief John Sledge with Texas-plated AT&T Ford E-250 van.
...in Fontana, Calif.
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The new BK line from Bauer Compressors “makes us a viable option forrefuse,” says sales chief Merv Bohrer. It “puts us into a capacity range thatwe haven’t had before.”
Norfolk, Va.-based Bauer is talking up the BK23 (and water-cooledBK26) machines at WasteCon 3285 in the NGV Zone.
BK stands for “booster kompressor” — the spelling used by Bauer’s German parent. “The BK23 series is very versatile because multiple
cylinder configurations enable customization tospecific requirements such as intake pressure fromatmospheric to 3600 psi, discharge pressure from350 to 6000 psi, and capacities to 400 scfm”(standard cubic feet per minute), he explains.
Power requirements range up to 50 horsepower.“Adding to its versatility,” Bohrer says, “the BK23 is available in air-cooled
or water-cooled designs. Water cooling is new forBauer, but a necessary addition to our range of prod-ucts because of our expansion into new markets.Another new feature is that with its unique crankcaseand oil sump the BK23 can operate at angles up to30 degrees.”
Bauer’s water-cooled BK26 differs from the firm’s28 series, as “multiple cylinder configurations allowthe new BK26 series to take from atmospheric to550 psi at the inlet, have discharge pressures from350 to 7000 psi, and offer capacities to 680 scfm.”The BK26 series also can operate at a 30-degree tilt.
Bohrer told F&F ShowTimes that another new series, designated BK52, is under development andplanned for release in 2011. The BK52 will offertwice the capacity range of the BK26.
All of the new Bauer BKs series are belt driven.“Direct-drive designs are under development aswell as variants for hydrogen,” Bohrer says.
Bauer for Refuse Truck Fueling
Georgia BiomethaneIs Going Out to Bid
The number of compressed natural gas fuelingstations in Georgia will jump eightfold by theend of 2012 to eight — from just one now.
Though that isn’t a huge number, it is ahuge expansion of infrastructure, says Billy Malone, assistant director of public works andsanitation at DeKalb County. He helped lead thesuccessful private/public application that re-sulted in DeKalb County winning $7.83 millionof a $14.9 million grant by Clean Cities AtlantaCoalition to use landfill gas for vehicles.
Malone said DeKalb County plans to re-place its fleet of 306 trucks, vans, pickups andsedans with CNG-powered vehicles over the nexteight years. They will use a fueling station at thelandfill and a second in the county, which willalso be full public access. A third public accessstation is planned for 2012.
Meanwhile Clean Cities Atlanta par tner PS Energy plans two stations in DeKalb Countyand two more elsewhere in Georgia.
DeKalb County has begun the process to findcontractors to upgrade its landfill gas to vehicle-pipeline quality by the end of 2011.
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Skip Baker of Baker Equip-ment is at WasteCon 2977 inthe NGV Zone showing off hislong-range, no-loss-of-cargo-space CNG van, which with100-inch roof-mounted Luxfer
tanks — holding 42 gasolinegallon equivalents — cantravel 500 miles on one fill.
The GM van was convertedto CNG using hardware fromFlorida’s Evotek, 3175.
Baker Goes Green – and Goes Long
Salt Lake City-based Trillium USA, which specializes in large-scale CNG fueling, with tran-sit customers including New York City (four busdepots), the Orange County Transportation Authority south of Los Angeles, and new contractsin San Diego, is eyeing refuse trucks.
“We’re looking to expand our presence into therefuse space,” says Bill Zobel, the SoCal Gas com-pany veteran (and long-time CNG advocate) whojoined Trillium as business development VP lastyear. To meet the waste sector’s needs, “We’re com-ing in with smaller packages,” he says.
“The refuse industry needs reliable fueling atfair prices,” he says. “We can deliver that.
“We have tremendous experience with high-volume customers,” Zobel says.
“We’ve got a very high quality offering and exceptional customer service.
“CNG is the most cost-effective option for thissector. If you’ve got access to a pipeline, CNG iswithout question the way to go.”
Trillium is at WasteCon 3271 in the NGV Zone.
Trillium USATargets Trucks in Waste Sector
Trillium provides CNG fuel in Berkeley, Calif.
Trillium USA VP Bill Zobel. He’s in Boston to parlaylong experience in large installations for transit busesinto a waste-sector fueling business.
‘We have tremendous experience with high-volumecustomers,” Zobel told Fleets & Fuels Show Times.‘The refuse industry needs reliable fueling at fair prices.We can deliver that.’
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Two more household-name fleets inBritain have deployed CNG deliveryvehicles to run on fuel derived from aLondon-area landfill. Landfill gas isprocessed into LNG in league withLinde and delivered by Gasrec, whichhas just publicized a partnership withNottingham-based Gas ContainerServices for CNG fueling.
Last year (as reported by F&F ShowTimes at WasteCon 2009), Italy’s
Iveco decided to offer its wide rangeof CNG-fueled Daily trucks to Britishbuyers, crediting consistent-qualitybiomethane fuel, trash truck proven (viaa trial in London) for the right hand-drive vehicle launch.
Now Britain’s Tesco.com is deploy-ing 25 CNG Daily trucks for home delivery and the 231-shop Waitrosechain is deploying five CNG-fueledMercedes Sprinters.
CNG Iveco Daily truck operated by the Camden City Council, London
Waste it locally, make it locally is the message from Cornerstone Environmen-tal Group, which is managing a new biogas-to-compressed natural gas vehiclefuel demonstration project in Wisconsin.
One of only eight landfill gas-based vehicle fueling ini-tiatives known in the U.S., the project in Wisconsin’s DaneCounty will use methane from three sources: landfill, wastefrom dairy cows, and a municipal waste water treatment digester. The trailer-mounted system will be based initiallyat the Rodefeld Landfill east of Madison, which already usesmethane to generate electricity, and will be able to produceup to 100 gasoline gallon equivalents (GGE) a day. And in an effort to spur demand, the trailer-mounted fueling
station can be taken to fleet operators.“This is a one year demonstration to show potential customers they can run
fleets of vehicles on CNG from sources that are too small for electricity gener-ation, such as municipalities with their waste water treatment plants,” said MarkTorresani, senior project manager at Cornerstone.
Once proven, the trailer-mounted fueling station could be put into produc-tion to offer a way to deliver CNG fuel to fleets, he said.
The project expects to demonstrate CNG operating costs of 50¢ to $1 perGGE compared to gasoline at $3 a gallon — “and that’s being conservative,”Torresani said.
He noted that municipalities that tender for refuse collection services are increasingly asking bidders to show “greenness” and an ability to sustain it —making a compelling argument to power fleets with CNG, perhaps producedfrom their own wastewater plants.
A separate demonstration is planned using offal at a meat-packing plant inDubuque, Iowa, Torresani said.
Partners and supporters of the private/public Dane County biogas projectinclude Dane County, Alliant Energy, Madison Area Technical College, Unison Solutions, ANGI International (WasteCon 3275 in the NGV Zone), Clear Horizons and Cornerstone. —John Morris
Mark Torresani
Trillium USA in the BlogosphereCNG specialist Trillium USA is building up its web pres-ence, with an active vigorous blog at trilliumusa.com/blog. TheTrillium blog includes a wealth of information on compressed
natural gas, including a handy energyconversion calculator and a glossary —and important sections on CNG fuel-ing station equipment and installation,and operations and maintenance.
There’s also a section on CNG for refuse trucks. TrilliumUSA is at WasteCon 3271 in the NGV Zone.
Mack Expanding TerraPro LineMack Trucks has been promoting natural gas trucks for morethan a year, and has an affiliate working to fuel them withbiomethane. Mack unveiled its TerraPro low entry vehiclewith 8.9-liter, 320-horsepower ISL G engine by CumminsWestport last year, citing an initial orderfor 20 from Groot Industries, of Illinois.Mack says it’s “initiated limited produc-tion with a plan to ramp up to higher vol-umes” of a cabover model this fall. Mack’s biomethanesubsidiary, known as Terracastus, has tested landfill-derivedbiomethane on Mack E7 engine-powered refuse trucks inNew Jersey. Mack is represented here by New England’sMcDevitt Trucks, which is showing a Mack Granite at APWA 175. E-Z Pack is showing a Mack at WasteCon 3453.
Doosan Certifies Natural Gas EngineNatural gas truck builders have another choice as the U.S.arm of Korea’s Doosan has secured U.S. EPA and Califor-nia certification of its 11-liter GK12TI engine with SCR.The engine is being tested on a Crane Carrier truck in Valley Vista, Calif., says Doosan’s Kwangsup “K-sup”Hwang. City of Industry (Los Angeles)-based Valley PowerSystems is Doosan’s distributor.
Landi Renzo Is Opening in TorranceItaly’s Landi Renzo, the world leader in gaseous fuel vehi-cle systems now targeting the U.S. market, will celebratethe grand opening of its facility in Torrance, Calif. (Los Angeles) on September 9. Landi Renzo is at WasteCon 3083in the NGV Zone.
A CNG Mixer in DallasA compressed natural gas KenworthT440 concrete mixer with CumminsWestport ISL G engine will be shownat the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas, Kenworthsaid this month. The truck has a McNeilus mixer body. TheGATS show runs August 26-28. A CNG-fueled McNeilusgarbage truck may be seen at WasteCon 3166 in the NGV Zone.
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Biomethane Still Drawing CNG to UK
Biomethane for Wisconsin from Cows,and from Madison Area’s Landfill Gas
One of 25 CNG Iveco Daily deliverytrucks now fielded by Tesco.com
Oklahoma’s Crane Carrier is promoting itsfront and side-loader trucks, among them a hydraulic hybrid vehicle with parallel HLA (Hydraulic Launch Assist) drivetrain by Eaton,on show at WasteCon 2705.
Crane has sold hundreds of compressed natural gas-fueled vehicles, too.Among them is a hydraulic hybridvehicle, one of 20 new CNG-fueledCrane LET 2 trucks for the NewYork City Department of Sanitation(ten entered service last year).
Crane is displaying a new cab-over-engine vehicle here, the COE2, powered by a 320-horsepower,8.9-liter ISL G engine by CumminsWestport. It’s being shown in theNGV Zone with a 75-gallon DGE(diesel gallon equivalent) fuel sys-tem by Enviromech with light-weight Type III (carbon fiber onaluminum) fuel cylinders by Luxfer(3171). Cummins Westport is at 3077.
Also in the NGV Zone, McNeilus (3166) is showing a CNG-fueled Crane LET 2 truck, likewise with 75-gallon DGE Enviromech-Luxfer fuel rig, and 25XC rear
loading collection body. Both the Eaton HLA hybrid ar Crane Waste-
Con 2705 and the COE 2 in the NGV Zone(3282) feature the RW209, Crane’s new 60/40rear tandem suspension with self-steering rearaxle. The RW209 reduces rear tandem axle
weight by 2,500 pounds, and vehicle turn ra-dius by 12%, Crane says, while making the ve-hicle easer to drive. It also reduces fuelconsumption by 10 to 15%, says Crane VPGlen Pochocki, by eliminating tire scrubbing.
Crane Pushes the Envelope
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Just How Do Those Rear Wheels Save Fuel?
We asked Crane Carrier VPGlen Pochocki just howthose rear steering wheelssave so much fuel.
“Geometry of wheels, sin-gle rear wheels on lastaxle,” he told F&F Show-Times. “The chassis pivotson the first rear drive axlewith the 60/40 suspension
and reduces the scrubbing on the rear drive axle,the rear-steer axle because it follows and the frontaxle now leads.
“With a tandem suspension,” Pochocki says,“the chassis actually pivots on a centerline be-tween the two rear axles, scrubbing all eight tireson the rear. With the rear axles dragging the frontaxle is naturally trying to straighten out in the turnas a result of the rear axle scrubbing, resultingmore effort holding and turning the steering wheel.
“With the rear axle trailing,” and turning/steering, Pochocki says, “steering wheel effortis greatly reduced, making it easier to turn thewheel and the chassis tracks better in a singlegeometric path.” Got it?
Glen Pochocki, Crane Carrier VP.
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November 24-26, NGV India 2010, Bombay ExhibitionCentre (Hall VI) in Mumbai. Organized by BangkokExhibition Services, which has established a confer-ence-expo secretariat in Mumbai.BES-NGV India 2010, Satish Chandran (Mumbai),+91-99-5390-8564; [email protected];www.ngvindia.com
October 28-30, NGV China Shanghai, the 11th ChinaInternational NGV and Gas Station Equipment Exhibition.Shanghai Everbright Convention & Exhibition Center.Organized by Beijing Qifa Exhibitions. Beijing Qifa, Mr. Winder Wang, +86-10-8586-3866; mobile +86-131-4130-3591; [email protected];www.ngvchinaqifa.com
September 28-30, HTUF National Conference 2010, theHybrid Truck User Forum organized by Calstart and co-hosted by NAC, the U.S. Army’s National AutomotiveCenter. Hyatt Regency in Dearborn, Mich. Calstart, Debby DuBose, 626-744-5600; [email protected]; www.htuf.org
March 7-10, 2011, Work Truck Show 2011 and the47th Annual NTEA Convention. Indiana ConventionCenter in Indianapolis. As at the 46th NTEA annual in St. Louis, the associated March 7-8 Green TruckSummit will incorporate the former CHDV, Calstart’sClean Heavy Duty Vehicle meeting. More space will beset aside for the GTS conference in Indianapolis, as wellas more space for green work truck displays. National Truck Equipment Association, Sheree Campbell, 248-489-7090 or toll-free 800-441-6832;fax 248-489-8590; [email protected] or Kathy Swartzentrover, 248-489-7090, ext 108;[email protected]; www.ntea.com / Calstart-Green-Truck Summit, Debbie DuBose or Susan Romeo,626-744-5600; [email protected] [email protected]; www.calstart.org
May 9-12, Waste Expo 2011 at the Dallas ConventionCenter in Dallas, Texas. Organized by Penton, publish-ers of Waste Age magazine. Abstracts for technicalpapers due August 20.Penton/Waste Expo, Catherine Campfield, 203-358-4128; [email protected];www.wasteexpo.com
The U.S. EPA will again hold its LandfillMethane Outreach Program meeting in Balti-more, again in January: the 14th LMOP AnnualConference and Project Expo is slated for Jan-uary 19-20 at the Hilton Baltimore Hotel.
EPA LMOP is at WasteCon 2878. The agency’sNRMRL (National Risk Management ResearchLaboratory) is at WasteCon 2956.EPA/LMOP, Rachel Goldstein, 202-343-9391;[email protected]; www.epa.gov/lmop
Other Biogas-Biomethane MeetingsSeptember 29-30, Biogaz Europe 2010, Charting a way forward for biogas in France.Charbonnières-les-Bain (Lyon), France. Simultaneous French-English conference trans-lation. Organized by BEES, Francheville-basedBioEnergie Evénements et Services.BEES, Paul Stuart, +33-3-8486-8932; [email protected]; www.biogaz-europe.com
November 18, Jumpstarting Biomethane forTransportation. One-day Calstart workshop atthe Southern California Gas Company EnergyResearch Center in Downey, Calif. (Los Ange-
les). Registrations discounted until October 29. Calstart, Kimberly Taylor, 626-622-6229; [email protected]; www.calstart.org
March 21-24, 2011, LFG 34, 34th Landfill GasSymposium organized by SWANA, the SolidWaste Association of North America. GaylordTexan Resort in Grapevine, Texas (Dallas).SWANA, Allison Burns, 240-494-2237;[email protected]; www.lfg.swana.org
Three by GPCOctober 13-14, Biogas USA at the Hotel Whit-comb in San Francisco. NGVAmerica presidentRich Kolodziej is a scheduled speaker. November 23-24, 9th International Biogas UK at the Copthorne Tara Hotel in LondonKensington. March 22-24, 2011, World Biofuels Markets.Beurs-World Trade Center Rotterdam, TheNetherlands. GPC U.S., Sean Budway, 702-430-1832;[email protected] or GPC UK, Chris Lewis, +44-203-355-4224;[email protected]; greenpowerconferences.com
EPA’s LMOP in Baltimore in January
The U.S. Department of Energy will hold its2010 Clean Cities Coordinator Leadership Retreat September 20-24 at the RushmorePlaza Holiday Inn in Rapid City, S.D. Organ-ized by the National Energy Technology Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy. U.S. DoE/NETL, Cindy Taylor, 304-285-4750; [email protected]; www.netl.doe.gov
Leadership Retreatat Mount Rushmore
News broke in the alternative fuel vehicle worldearlier this month that the longtime AlternativeFuel & Vehicle Expo organizer was droppingout of the conference business, just as SouthernCalifornia’s Gladstein, Neandross & Associates(GNA) announced a new gathering, ACT Expo2011 (see ad, facing page) for April 20-21, 2011in Long Beach, California.
“We’ve seen alternative fuels go from the obscure to the mainstream,” executive directorAnnalloyd Thomason of the Las Vegas-basedAlternative Fuel Vehicle Institute announcedthat AFVi would no longer stage the annualAF&V gathering (AF&V 2011 had been plannedfor Fort Worth, Texas in May).
“It’s a bittersweet ending,” Thomason said ina release: “We so appreciate the support of oursponsors and exhibitors throughout the years,and we’ll continue to work with them in the future on other projects.”
AFVI’s affiliate Natural Gas Vehicle institutehas just announced its fall NGVi seminar series,with classes conducted by veteran Leo Thoma-son. Workshops will start at the end of this monthand run into early November in Charlotte, N.C.,Dallas, and Hayward and Downey, Calif.
As for the new GNA meeting in Long Beach(where WasteCon was held last year and will return in 2013), “We are answering strong demand for a clean vehicles conference in
California in 2011,” says CEO Erik Neandross. “The growing industry is centered here in
California, and the Long Beach venue presentsunparalleled opportunity for technical tours ofport and other facilities,” he said.
He notes that ACT Expo 2011 builds onGNA’s successful Clean Vehicle TechnologyExpo series. It may also pick up the Clean Citiesmantle of some 16 years of continuous meetingsrelinquished now by AFVi. www.actexpo.com
WasteCon-APWA 2011+August 23-25, 2011, WasteCon 2011 inNashville, Tenn. Organized by the SolidWaste Association of Nor th America. Ab-stracts for technical papers due October 15.
WasteCon 2012 has been scheduled forWashington, D.C., WasteCon 2013 will bein Long Beach, Calif. and WasteCon 2014 willbe in Dallas. Here in Boston: WasteCon 3153.SWANA, Mr. Chris Hurwitz, 240-494-2253; [email protected]; wastecon.swana.org
September 18-21, 2011, APWA 2011, Amer-ican Public Works Association Congress &Exposition. Colorado Convention Center inDenver. Here in Boston: 3153.APWA, Dave Dancy, 816-472-6100, ext 5250;[email protected]; www.apwa.net
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