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Natural gas and hybrid drives, and SWANA itself host-ing sessions on WCT, for Waste Conversion Tech-nologies. Such technologies – gasification, pyrolysis,plasma arc and anaerobic digestion among them – canyield renewable fuels to power vehicles.
“Solid waste professionals need to be able to carryout a thoughtful, critical and penetrating evaluation,”says SWANA – WasteCon 2011’s host, the Solid WasteAssociation of North America.
Waste Management has taken delivery of its 1,000thnatural gas refuse truck, fuels a third of the fleet with land-
fill gas, and is bringing on more. Clean Energy has justreported a $150 million investment by a shale gas leader,and has a biomethane deal with Republic. More power-ful engines will make natural gas more attractive.
Crane and Autocar are taking different approaches to hybrids. New York City has ordered ten hydraulics, of yet another variety.
It’s all to be learned here inNashville, at WasteCon 2011, the49th meeting in the WasteConseries. —Details Inside!
Methane Fuel and Hybrids Becoming Norm
Beyond RecyclingWasteCon host SWANA inauguratesWaste Conversion Technologies Showcase:Tuesday and Thursday sessions. —Page 3
Clean Energy MomentumOnce one local waste firm goes with natu-ral gas, others follow. Supplier predicts 50%new truck market share. —Page 6
Mansfield Oil Enters CNG$5 billion firm with a going biofuels busi-ness acquires California’s GESI. —Page 8
Waste Management: 1,000Refuse leader takes delivery of its 1,000thnatural gas-fueled truck. —Page 10
Agility Fuel SystemsFirm born of the merger of AFV-Fab andEnviromech garners lion’s share of natu-ral gas fuel assemblies on trucks. —Page 11
New York’s HydraulicsNew York City has ordered ten Mack truckswith hydraulic hybrid drivetrains by BoschRexroth, marking the first acquisition action since the Sanitation Department saidit was interested in deploying 300. —Page 13
Trillium Looks to RefuseUtah-based CNG specialist emphasizesflexibility as it helps refuse collectors set upnatural gas vehicle fueling. —Page 14
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WASTECON 2011 IN NASHVILLE AUGUST 23-25, 2011
Smaller waste firms like Vermont’s
Casella Waste Systems are buy-
ing compressed natural gas
trucks and installing their
own fueling capability.
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Welcome to WasteCon 2011
Crane Carrier is the first in the U.S. to test a new parallel hybrid electric drivetrain from BAE Systems, which has sup-plied series units for more than 3,000 heavy duty buses. Crane is also the first with a commercial order for a CNG-fueled hybrid refuse truck, as two with Eaton’s HLA hydraulic drive have been ordered by Seattle’s Cleanscapes. —Page 12
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The WasteCon-hosting Solid Waste ManagementAssociation of North America is staging a WasteConversion Technologies Showcase for the firsttime here in Nashville, and has tapped JonathanSilver of the U.S. Department of Energy to givethe keynote address this morning.
Silver was named executive director of DoE’sLoan Programs Office in November 2009, andas such, leads the Obama administration’s $70 billion investment program in alternativeenergy. DoE is financing a wide range of solar,wind, geothermal, biofuels, fossil and nuclearenergy projects. Silver also heads the govern-ment’s $20 billion investment program in ad-
vanced automotive technology.“We are very pleased that Mr. Silver will be
addressing this inaugural SWANA event,” saidSWANA executive director and CEO Dr. JohnSkinner. “His remarks will provide technologydevelopers and local government agencies withvaluable information about the availability ofFederal financial assistance for waste conversiontechnologies.”
Silver is responsible for strategic direction atthe DoE Loan Programs Office, SWANA notes,and oversees all of its transactions. He frequentlyrepresents the agency before Congress and inpublic forums. In 2010, he was named one of thecountry’s top ten “influencers” in the greentech industry.
The Waste Conversion Technologies – WCT– Showcase will be held as part of the WasteConconference here. Sessions (below) will addressnewly emerging technologies for recovering en-ergy or products from solid waste, including gasi-fication, pyrolysis, plasma arc and anaerobicdigestion technologies.
“Local governments are increasingly beingasked to implement these technologies, many ofwhich have limited operating data or no full scalefield experience,” SWANA says. “Elected offi-
cials need to under-stand both the po-tential benefits andthe potential risks ofimplementing thesetechnologies, whileconsidering their po-tential to providegreen jobs and whileconverting waste intotransportation fuelsand other energy products. Solid waste profes-sionals need to be able to carry out a thought-ful, critical and penetrating evaluation of thesetechnologies as necessary to protect the interestsof the citizens who, ultimately, pay the bills.”
The WCT Showcase “will address the needsand perspectives of the public sector solid wastemanager, who not only represents the local gov-ernment, but who also must address critical im-plementation issues, such as siting andcommunity endorsement,” SWANA says.
“The Showcase will feature an entire track oftechnical sessions on WCTs and associated plan-ning and implementation topics. Both electedofficials and solid waste program managers arehighly encouraged to attend.”
The Wildhorse Saloon on WednesdayWasteCon attendees are invited to join the Tennessee Volunteer Chapter at the Wildhorse Saloon. Live music,southern BBQ – and valuable networking. Shuttles will be provided. Ticket required.
Networking Event – Wildhorse Saloon – Wednesday, August 24 – 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.More Meetings News, Including WasteCon 2012 in Washington Details –Page 14
Jonathan Silver
Waste Conversion Technologies SessionsTUESDAY, AUGUST 232:00 - 2:45 Keynote Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jonathan Silver of U.S. DoE Loan Programs Office (above)
2:45 - 3:45 Learning from WCT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Harvey Gershman of GBB (moderator)2:45 What We Hope to Learn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Harvey Gershman of GBB3:00 Enerkem, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dirk Andreas3:15 Entec Biogas USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Catie Lewis3:30 Questions & Answers
4:00 - 5:00 Learning from WCT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tim Raibley of HDR (moderator)4:00 BIOFerm Energy Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . company representative4:15 Agilyx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lew Feucht4:30 Eisenmann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . company representative4:45 - 5:00 Questions & Answers
THURSDAY, AUGUST 2512:00 - 1:45 Learning from WCT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joe Murdoch of HDR (moderator)12:00 Frontline Bioenergy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bill Lee12:15 Chinock Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . company representative12:45 Questions & Answers
12:45 - 2:00 WCT Managers Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jim Binder of ARI (moderator)12:45 Lake County, Ind. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jeff Langbehn1:15 Santa Barbara County, Calif.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carlyle Johnston (invited)1:45 - 2:00 Questions & Answers
2:30 - 3:30 WCT Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Harvey Gershman of GBB (moderator)2:30 WCTs – Public Procurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jim Binder, ARI3:00 WCTs – Identifying and Allocating Risk. . . . . . . . . Tim Raibley, HDR
Looking to more than just recycling
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“In ten years, every home-based fleet’sgoing to be CNG,” says GeorgeGeisler, owner of 14-truck All BrightSanitation of Columbus, N.C.
His company is switching over tocompressed natural gas, having takendelivery in early July of four Autocar(Booth 470) front-loaders outfitted forCNG by McNeilus.
All Bright took delivery this monthof a CNG rear-loader and a container
delivery unit, both with Freightlinerchassis, and has ordered a pair ofFreightliner CNG roll-off trucks.
The big driver? Fuel-savings, saysGeisler, who told Fleets & Fuels that he’spared his fuel bill by more than half.
The switch to a new fuel? “In allhonesty there is nothing to it,” he says.“This is just simple, simple, simple.”
All Bright has installed a privateCNG fueling facility too.
Casella Waste Systems opened a compressed natural gas fueling station in Williston, Vt., the first for the family-owned company, this past spring. TheWilliston fueling installation was built by Boston-based AVSG using a singlecompressor from Bauer (Booth 543) with six time-fill posts. “Casella has nowasked AVSG to commence Phase 2 which is a second compressor and seven
additional time-fill posts,” reportsAVSG’s Mike Manning.
“We are operating three Autocarsnow in Williston at our All Cycle division,” Peter Vanderhoof ofCasella told Fleets & Fuels in June.
Three more have since been de-livered and a seventh is expected this
month. “Stations are under construction at our Geneva, N.Y. and Fort EdwardN.Y. locations by Vocational Energy,” Vanderhoof said. “Three trucks have beenordered for each of these sites.” Those deliveries have commenced.
The opening in Vermont marks “a bold new direction toward a cleaner environmental future and greater energy security for this region,” said JoannaUnderwood, president of Energy Vision in New York City.
“This fleet shift from diesel to natural gas fuel will cut the region’s air pollu-tion significantly, protecting the health of residents and that of those who driveand work with the fleet vehicles,” Underwood said.
Separately, AVSG broke ground on a municipal CNG station in Nashua,N.H. last year, Manning said, noting a 15-year CNG supply deal. AVSG willown, operate and maintain a large public-access CNG station on city property,as Nashua ordered nine CNG trash trucks and two transit buses.
Autocar is at Booth 470.
CNG for Choice in Florida“We’re rapidly converting our fleet to CNG wherever wecan,” says Choice Environmental VP Tony Ciofalo, asChoice has become the first refuse company in South Floridato convert a portion of its operations to compressed natu-ral gas, opening a Clean Energy (Booth 236) fueling installa-tion in Pompano Beach, to initially support 12 Autocar trucks
(two more are on order).Teco People’s Gas is sup-plying pipeline methane.
There are to be 30trucks there, possiblyfrom other suppliers, by
year-end or the first quarter of 2012, Ciofalo says. “Our goalwould be to have all 90 trucks at that facility running onCNG,” he told Fleets & Fuels. Other potential locations forCNG for Choice include Opa Locka. Ciofalo, who previ-ously worked the refuse market for Clean Energy, notes thatChoice was acquired in February by Swisher Hygiene, a firmcontrolled by Waste Management founder Wayne Huizenga.Following the Huizenga model, Swisher has since made twomore refuse firm acquisitions. Autocar is at Booth 470.
It’s Not Just for Big TrucksIndiana’s Impco Automotive is at Booth 475, spreading theword that refuse truck operators who have invested in CNGfueling might do well to convert their smaller vehicles too.
“They also have lots of pickuptrucks,” sales director Jay Sandler says of the wastehaulers. Impco, a unit of FuelSystems Solutions Inc., boasts a
growing list of certifications allowing pickups to be con-verted. “We do GMs, we do Fords, we do dedicated and wedo bi-fuel,” Sandler says. “There’s ample opportunity here.”
Making a ‘Monstrous’ Difference “Small Indiana refuse company hopes to make ‘monstrous’difference with McNeilus CNG truck,” McNeilus said earlythis month, reporting that Monster Trash Pickup & Roll-Off, of Spencer, Ind., has purchased a compressed naturalgas, Autocar-chassis, 20-yard rearloading refuse vehicle. “It’s not onlyabout going green,” said MonsterTrash president Craig Newforth.
“It’s also the lower price of natural gas and not being dependent on foreign oil.”
Dodge Center, Minn.-based McNeilus, a unit ofOshkosh Corp, outfits the trucks for CNG operation usinglightweight, all-composite Type IV fuel cylinders from Lincoln Composites (NGVAmerica Booth 266). The vehicleshave 8.9-liter ISL G engines from Cummins Westport. Theyand McNeilus’s CNG concrete mixers are part of the firm’s“Ngen” line. McNeilus has a CNG fueling station at its factory by Mansfield Gas Equipment Systems (Booth 442).
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All Bright Swears by CNG Fuel
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CNG-fueled Autocar for Casella
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Seal Beach, Calif.-based Clean Energy Fuels sup-plies more than 22,700 natural gas vehicles at238 locations across the U.S. and Canada withrefuse, transit, trucking, shuttle, taxi, airport and
municipal fleet customers. Thefirm has a joint venture in Peru.It holds a 70% stake in a land-fill gas facility in Texas, andplans a second in Michigan. Itmakes LNG in Texas and Cal-ifornia. Clean Energy delivered73.5 million gasoline gallon
equivalents of natural gas in 2008, 122.7 millionGGEs in 2010, and through the second quarterwas on track for nearly 150 million GGEs thisyear. Revenues are up 62% from 2010.
The refuse business? “We’re probably grow-ing faster than any other sector in our company,”says VP Ray Burke. “When I started in 2007 wewere in three states. Now we’re in 26.”
Clean Energy supplies natural gas for refusetrucks in Smithtown, N.Y. and other Long Is-land locations. Choice Environmental Servicesis a new customer in Florida, as is Republic Serv-ices. In New Jersey, Clean Energy supplies cus-tomers including Central Jersey Waste andRecycling. California continues strong, with newcustomers including Waste Connections in SanLuis Obispo. Waste Management remains aClean Energy customer in California. Clean En-
ergy branched into Idaho with CNG fuelingfor the Allied Waste Services unit of Repub-lic Services in 2009 and early this month thestation in Boise opened to the public.
In mid-2010 Clean Energy acquired IMW,increasing its capabilities in natural gas fuel-ing stations. Early this year, Clean Energybought Wyoming’s NorthStar, an LNG spe-cialist with LCNG knowhow for convertingeconomical-to-transport LNG to CNG, whichis better for refuse truck operations. Clean En-ergy also owns BAF Technologies, which con-verts Ford vehicles up to and including the F-550 to dedicated-CNG operation.
This summer, Clean Energy publicizedwork on a 10,000-cow dairy biomethane-basedCNG station in Indiana that will support afleet of 42 Kenworth over-the-road trucks.Biomethane works for milk trucks running oncow manure, and it works even better, Burke says,for garbage trucks running on landfill-based nat-ural gas. Biomethane from the new RepublicServices landfill site in Michigan will offset CNGburned by Republic in California (see page 7).
“This used to be a push market,” Burke says.“Now everybody’s calling us. We’re in a pull mar-ket. Large fleets are saving north of $2 a gallon.
“I’m seeing $18,000 a year savings from yearone, per truck. The question of using naturalgas,” Burke says, “isn’t a question anymore.”
His forecast? In a year ormaybe two, 50% of newgarbage trucks bought in theUnited States will be naturalgas-fueled.
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Republic Services (Booth 448) Mack with Heil (400)body taking advantage of CNG from Clean EnergyFuels in Lakeland, Fla.
Ray Burke
NGVAmerica Members at WasteConNGVAmerica, the trade association fornatural gas vehicles, is providing spaceat Booth 266 for:• Agility Fuel Systems – natural gas fuel
assemblies for trucks and buses (seepage 11);
• ANGI Energy Systems – compressednatural gas fueling;
• CNG Cylinders International – light-weight Type III (carbon fiber on alu-minum) CNG fuel cylinders,distributor for low-cost Type I (all-steel) cylinders by Argentina’s Inflex;
• Cummins Westport – natural gas ve-hicle engines;
• Impco – gaseous fuel vehicles (475),affiliates include BRC FuelMaker forCNG fueling;
• GreenField Compres-sion – CNG fueling;
• Knox Western – com-pressors and CNG fu-eling (see page 14);
• Lincoln Composites –lightweight Type IV(all-composite carbon fiber on poly-mer) CNG fuel cylinders;
• Luxfer Gas Cylinders – Type II andType III CNG fuel cylinders; and
• Titeflex – CNG hoses for vehicles andfueling.NGVs run cleaner and quieter and
are cheaper to operate than diesels, saysRich Kolodziej, NGVAmerica presi-dent. Emerging biomethane, he notes,makes natural gas a renewable fuel.
Kolodziej
Domestic natural gas production leader Chesapeake Energy has made the largest investment in Clean Energy Fuels in Clean Energy’s history – ponying up $150 millionfor liquefied natural gas fueling outlets atPilot Flying J truck stops nationwide.
Most refuse truck operators have cometo favor compressed natural gas over LNGfor their collection vehicles, but more LNGalong the interstates means that compa-nies that transpor t LNG in tankers, likeWaste Management (see page 10) – andClean Energy Fuels itself – will run thosetankers on the same clean fuel they so ag-gressively promote.
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Agility designs and manufactures world-classalterna�ve fuel systems for the truck, bus and specialtyvehicle industry. We are the leaders in the natural gasindustry with a proven track record of 10,000 fuelsystems in service. We are proud to announce ourlatest CNG fuel system that will deliver a remarkable80dge fuel capacity using a dual-tank frame railmounted design. This is the ideal system for any OEMheavy duty chassis applica�on. www.agilityfs.com
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Republic Services (Booth 448) and Clean EnergyFuels (Booth 236) come to WasteCon 2011 with anarrangement to process and sell renewable naturalgas recovered from Republic’s Sauk Trail Hills Land-fill site in Canton, Mich. – and use it, effectively, tofuel trucks in California.
“This is truly an innovative project that pro-vides Republic with a beneficial use for our landfillgas and gives us the flexibility for use in Republic’smarkets where it meets our growing natural gasfleet’s operational needs,” Don Slager, president andCOO of Republic, said in announcing the deal latelast year.
Capacity will be 6 million DGEs – diesel gallonequivalents – per year, starting in 2012. The gas willbe of pipeline quality and will support growingRepublic vehicle fleets in the West (where 226NGVs are being added this year) and Florida (where41 NGVs are being added).
Republic has contracted with Clean Energy for 14 compressed natural gas refuse vehicle fueling stations and to provide liquefied natural gastrucks in California with approximately 3 million
gallons of LNG vehicle fuel per year. “They’re going to be offsetting the consumption
of CNG and LNG that they purchase with a por-tion of the produced volumes from the landfill,” saidClean Energy renewables chief Harrison Clay.Republic wants to develop the Michigan biogas forvehicles, yet “be able to fuel where they have to fuel.”
“We have approximately 550 NGVs in our fleetof about 15,000 vehicles,” says Phoenix-based Re-public spokeswoman Peg Mulloy.
“We are still in the planning stages for deter-mining our specific fleet purchases in 2012 and havenot yet set a total number of trucks or type of truckswe are going to buy.”
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Republic CNG Via Clean Energy Biogas
Republic Services has approximately 550 naturalgas vehicles in its overall fleet of about 15,000.
Heil is promoting one-stop shoppingfor CNG customers at Booth 400: “It isno longer necessary to use multiplevendors, points of contact, and ship-ping destinations to obtain the tanks,fittings, and regulators for a CNG vehicle,” the firm says, talking up its“Heil Blue” as “single point-of-contactpurchasing and installation of CNG-fueled refuse collection vehicles.”
Heil Environmental CNG models in-clude front-, side- and rear-loading top-of-body trucks, and a rear-loadingover-the-cab configuration.
Heil Environmentalfor ‘One-Stop’ CNG
CNG fuel tanks atop a Heil Rapid Rail body.
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Mansfield Oil, which moves some 2.5 billion gallons of various fuels per year including a goingbusiness in biodiesel and ethanol, has enteredthe CNG sector by buying California’s GasEquipment Systems, Inc.
GESI “has supplied, constructed and main-tained more than 150 compressed natural gas fueling stations in its thirteen year history,”Mansfield notes.
GESI has now become Mansfield Gas Equip-ment Systems (Booth 442) – and is a WasteCon2011 sponsor.
“With the addition of compressed natural gasto its current energy portfolio, Mansfield has so-lidified its position as the only transportationfuels company with the capability to deliver acomplete slate of fuels including gasoline, diesel,biodiesel, ethanol, and CNG across the U.S. andCanada,” states the merger announcement.
“We look at fuel as a portfolio,”says Mansfield president and COOJ. Alexander: customers state whatthey need and Mansfield fills the bill.“We are the last mile of the supplychain,” he says.
Mansfield will both build CNGfueling stations and, as it does withother fuels, handle fuel supply to customers. That could meanpipeline, or it could mean bio-methane supply. The target marketis medium-size fleets in the transit,refuse, concrete and package deliv-ery fields. “Our sweet spot is thehub-and-spoke guys. The vehiclecomes back to the depot at night,”Alexander told Fleets & Fuels.
The decision to get into CNG was promptedin large part by the market. “Many of our cus-tomers in the waste, cement, parcel delivery, pub-lic transit, and school transportation sectors havebeen asking for CNG,” Mansfield executiveVP and chief information officer Doug Haughsays in the acquisition announcement. Haugh,Mansfield notes, was a co-founder of Houston-based FuelQuest and as such has devised “sup-ply chain management and tax automationsolutions” for such clients as Wal-Mart, Ryder, 7-Eleven, UPS, and Chevron – several of
which are taking increasednotice of natural gas as a ve-hicle fuel.
Mansfield has more than2,500 fuel-buying cus-tomers. Fuel is delivered tomore than 20,000 customerlocations in the U.S. and
Canada, the firm says, “providing a readily ac-cessible customer base for GESI’s products.”
“We currently design, supply, manufacture,construct and maintain CNG fuel stations of allsizes in numerous states including California,Arizona, Texas, Minnesota, and Illinois,” saysGESI founder and president Larry Ozier.
“Our experience has been that customers needa turnkey solution from a single source. We canease their transition to CNG.” GESI – nowMansfield – builds compressor skids and its ownline of accessory components at its headquartersin Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.
GESI’s products and services, says Mansfield,“solve the infrastructure challenge that customersface in adopting CNG systems. When pairedwith Mansfield’s national network of fuel supply,the resulting solution allows customers to eas-ily consider CNG as a realistic option to meettheir fueling needs at any location.”
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Natural gas vehicles are among thetarget markets as BioFerm EnergySystems promotes its fuel-from-waste capabilities at Booth 913.
The four-year-old Wisconsin-and Germany-based companyclaims a dry fermentation batchprocess that can handle numeroustypes of agricultural and otherfeedstocks. Dry fermentation ismore efficient than more common wetsystems, BioFerm says. It gets more gasfrom less input, uses less energy to do so, and poses less of a threat ofgroundwater pollution. The system
“provides customers with increasedflexibility and profitability,” the com-pany says. More than 3,000 types ofbiogas feedstock materials have beenevaluated.
Dry Biogas from BioFerm
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Time-fill CNG fueling for Groot Industries
Gas Equipment Systems, Inc. founder Larry Ozier (at left) with J. Alexander of Mansfield Oil at GESI -- now Mansfield Gas Equip-ment Systems -- facility in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.
BioFerm’s SCADA – Supervisory Control andData Acquisition – biogas process control.
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Waste Management (Booth 600) last monthadded the 1,000th natural gas truck to itsfleet, “making it the largest owner and op-erator of clean-running, heavy duty refusetrucks in North America.” The vehicle is a
compressed natural gas-fueled Autocar Xpedi-tor, with 8.9-liter ISL G engine by CumminsWestport. It is WM’s 536th CNG vehicle (the
others run on LNG – liquefied natural gas).WM talked up its use of “trash gas” at a cere-
mony at Carson, Calif. that drew the mayor ofCarson – and the mayors of Long Beach and SantaAna. WM noted that the trucks based there – aswell as a third of its California fleet – are poweredby natural gas derived from the decomposition oforganic waste at the company’s Altamont Land-fill in Livermore, Calif., east of San Francisco.
“Since November 2009, the landfill has beengenerating as much as 13,000 gallons of LNG perday, a virtually zero-carbon transportation fuel,”WM said.
A second landfill gas facility, with planned capacity of about 18,000 LNG gallons daily, isplanned for Simi Valley, northwest of Los Ange-les, with California Energy Commission support.CEC has awarded $11 million to High MountainFuels, a venture of WM and cryogenic gas specialist Linde. High Mountain is to invest a likeamount of matching money in the project.
WM says it has natural gas fueling at 17 of itsfacilities in North America “with more underdevelopment.” The firm opened a (pipeline-fed)CNG station in Monterey, Calif. last month.
WM has found CNG to be operationally superior to LNG in its collection vehicles – LNGhas to be vented if not used, which can make forsignificant losses. The economics of LNG, how-ever, are better for shipping the fuel, says California fleet director Marty Tufte. WM is com-mitted to LNG production at Altamont and at thenew Simi Valley facility, so is adding LCNG capability at its LNG fueling outlets.
Much of that work is being performed byNorthStar, now a unit of Clean Energy Fuels(Booth 236), Tufte says.
WM said that its fleet of natural gas trucks,which is now 1,000 vehicles strong, will displaceeight million gallons of petroleum and eliminate45,100 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions“in just one year.”
WM said it expects that in future, 80% of itsnew trucks will be natural gas-fueled.
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Men on Waste Management mission: Steve Kobzoff,Cedric Turner, Julio Hernandez, Miguel Ramirez, Sean Van Niman, Heros Keshishzadeh, Jesus Gonzalez,and Michael Grim help celebrate delivery of the com-pany’s 1,000th natural gas-fueled collection vehicle.
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Waste Management’s 1,000th natural gas truck:a CNG-fueled Autocar Xpeditor (Booth 470).
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Waste Management is among the companies testing a new 11.9-liter natural gas engine fromCummins Westport (NGVAmerica Booth 266).
“The [more powerful] 11.9 will fill the nichethat we need,” WM fleet chief Marty Tufte toldFleets & Fuels. It will be tested in a transfer trac-tor first, but may find use in liquefied naturalgas tanker transport too.
The initial test vehicle is a Freightliner Cascadia truck.
A proof-of-concept Cascadia with the new engine was shown at ACT Expo in Long Beach.Calif. this past May. Officials of both Freightlinerand Cummins Westport said that the sales targetis early 2013. The U.S. Department of Energy ishelping fund development.
Cummins Westport 11.9 in proof-of-concept truck
Waste Managementfor New 11.9 Trials
Agility Fuel Systems is mak-ing its WasteCon debut,weighing in as the undis-puted leader in natural gasfuel tank assemblies fortrucks and buses – Agilitywas born in December oflast year behind the mergerof the erstwhile competitors
Fab Industries (AFV-Fab) and Enviromech. Ron Eickelman of Fab is Agility president, and
Enviromech president Joe Pike is Agility VP. Agility (NGVAmerica Booth 266) early this month
named Barry Engle as CEO. Engle most recentlywas CEO of Think, a manufacturer of electricvehicles in Oslo, Norway. From 2008 to 2010 heserved as president & CEO of New HollandAgricultural Equipment in Turin, Italy.
“Barry has worked internationally and with largecorporations, with significant managerial and operational experience in an OEM setting,” saidAgility chair Mike Gallagher. “His experience withsmaller companies will serve Agility well.”
Agility handles both compressed and lique-fied natural gas fueling assemblies, using com-ponents from a range of suppliers. Recentinnovations include a frame-mounted CNG fuelrig with the look of a diesel tank, using Type IVall-composite cylinders from Quantum. It can hold about 40 diesel gallon equivalents –80 DGEs per truck if installed on both sides.
Agility notes that Element Partners, a cleantechnology-focused private equity fund, pro-vided equity capital to complete the Fab-Enviromech merger and assumed a significantequity position along with board participation.
Agility Makes WasteCon Debut
Barry Engle 10,000 ISL G Enginesby Cummins WestportCummins Westport (Booth 266) last monthcelebrated manufacture of its 10,000th 8.9-liter, spark-ignition ISL G, the engine that’sbecome nearly ubiquitous in heavy dutynatural gas vehicles in North America.
Built in Rocky Mount, N.C., the ISL G isthe largest volume single automotive natu-ral gas engine in Cummins history. The RockyMount plant reached the 30,000 total nat-ural gas engines production mark in June.
Frame-mounted CNG fuel rig from Agilityhas the look of a diesel installation.
The workhorse8.9-liter ISL G
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Crane Carrier (Booth 200) has won the race forcommercial sale of a compressed natural gas-fueled heavy duty hybrid vehicle, as WashingtonState’s CleanScapes has ordered two for a wastecollection contract in Des Moines, just south ofSeattle, for delivery early in 2012.
The trucks will be Crane LET2 vehicleswith HLA (for Hydraulic Launch Assist) paral-lel hybrid drivetrains by Eaton.
Unlike hybrid electric vehicles, which use bat-teries to store electricity that’s released to a motorto boost acceleration and save fuel, hydraulic hybrids employ pressure vessels known as accu-mulators to store power, with sophisticated pumpsto both recoup energy from braking and channelpower back to the wheels. Hydraulic is emergingas the hybrid technology of choice for heavy vehicles with extreme stop-and-go duty cycles.
Cheaper-than-diesel CNG fuel means it willtake longer for CleanScapes to amortize the HLAhybrid trucks’ higher price, says Crane VP GlennPochocki. The client, however, insisted thatthe trucks be as clean as possible, he says.
Hybrids aside, “In the last two procurementswe’ve been in, we’ve bid entirely CNG,” saysCleanScapes spokesman John Taylor. “Universally,our experience with CNG has just been great,” hetold Fleets & Fuels prior to WasteCon 2011.
CleanScapes has approximately 100 collectiontrucks and about half are natural gas-fueled.Maintenance costs are lower than diesels, he says,and the hydraulic hybrids, with a drivetrain thatgathers braking energy, will further reduce main-
tenance costs. CleanScapes operates both Craneand Autocar vehicles.
Crane VP Pochocki says CNG trucks accountfor about 36% of his sales thus far in 2011, andthat he expects that number to rise to 40% whenyear-end totals are in.
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Crane First for a CNG Hydraulic Hybrid Sale
Oklahoma-based Crane Carrier(Booth 200) and BAE Systems willtest BAE’s HybriDrive parallelheavy duty hybrid electric propul-sion system in Crane’s LET2 refusetruck in anticipation of bringing themore fuel-efficient powertrain tothe U.S. market in late 2012.
BAE said last year that it woulddevise a parallel version for trucks ofits successful series hybrid electricdrive for buses (3,000-plus in serv-ice). In March, BAE said it would
employ an Caterpillar transmission.Fuel savings for the stop-and-go
garbage collection duty cycle are ex-pected to amount to 25% or even35%, says Mike Mekhiche, BAEprogram director. “Refuse is rightat the heart of the duty cycle thatthe equipment is designed to per-form for,” he told Fleets & Fuels.Payback? “We’re looking at threeto five years, max,” for the RCV –refuse collection vehicle – market,”he says.
Parallel HybriDriveRCV trials are expectedto start this year, withboth existing customersand potential new onesas possible participants,says Crane VP GlennPochocki.
The BAE drive is tobe available in Crane’sCOE (cab over engine)models as well as theLET2 vehicles.
Pochocki notes thatthe parallel architec-ture with conventionalCaterpillar transmis-sion also allows its usein Crane LDT2 drop-chassis vehicles.
“Both companiesare leaders in our re-spective markets; ouralliance will maximizeour respective syner-gies, bringing a highperformance product and all the as-sociated environmental and eco-nomic benefits to the RCV market,”Mekhiche said in a release.
Crane is using a Wayne Curb-tender ASL brand automated side-loader for the BAE trials. Crane isalso evaluating Eaton’s HLA (forHydraulic Launch Assist) in simi-lar LET2 vehicles.
The Caterpillar CX series trans-mission is key to the economics ofthe parallel HybriDrive, Mekhiche
says. It’s a straight off-the-shelfproduct, he says, with BAE software“to shift it and control it.”
BAE’s drives employ lithium ionbatteries. A123 supplies the batter-ies for the series HybriDrive pow-ertrains for buses. BAE has notidentified its lithium ion supplierfor the parallel drives for trucks.
The parallel HybriDrive power-train for RCVs is being evaluated inthe UK by Dennis Eagle, also withan eye to sales late in 2012.
Crane First for BAE’s Parallel Hybrid Electric Drive
BAE has gone with an off-the-shelf CX Series transmission by Caterpillar for HybriDrive for trucks,the parallel version of its successful hybrid electricdriveline for transit buses. The conventional trans-mission allows the BAE drive to be used in moretruck models.
CNG-fueled Crane Carrier trucks operated by CleanScapes in Seattle.
Crane LET2ss with Wayne bodies are also beingused to test Eaton’s HLA hydraulic hybrid drive.
Autocar Offers a CNG Hydraulic Too
Autocar (Booth 470) announced a CNG-fueledversion of its E3 hydraulic hybrid at Waste-Con 2010 in Boston last year, with RunWiseseries hydraulic drive by Parker Hannifin.
Eleven diesel-fueled RunWise Autocarswere placed with south Florida fleets lastyear, and according to Parker, fuel savingshave exceeded 40%. The City of Miami tookdelivery of three additional vehicles in June,and Austin, Texas has four of them on order.
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The New York City Department of Sanitation,which operates some 2,000 refuse collectiontrucks, spread the word late last year that it wasinterested in deploying 300 hydraulic hybrid ve-hicles. It has since issued a purchase order for tendiesel-fueled LE613 vehicles from Mack Truckswith HRB (hydrostatic regenerative braking) hydraulic hybrid drivetrains from Bosch Rexroth.
New York expects to receive its HRB hybridMacks toward the end of the year.
Depending on the Macks’ performance, forthe next fiscal year the agency may order as manyas 15 more hydraulic hybrid vehicles, says agencystrategist Spiro Kattan. Or, it may buy fewer.
After that, it gets serious. New York City, whichbuys about 300 garbage trucks per year, will haveto be assured that the new drive vehicles can
be produced involume, and ontime.
“We are atthe crossroads,”Kattan says.
“We’re testing new waters.”His agency sees hydraulic hybrid vehicles as
more technologically ready than electric hybridsfor heavy duty applications. Trials of two diesel-fueled HRB Crane LET2s have shown fuel econ-omy improvement of 10 to 12%. He says he hopesthe Macks do better. New York is also testing aCNG-fueled HRB Crane LET2.
Bosch Rexroth has more than 30 refuse trucksof various types with the HRB drive in worldwidetrials. Crane Carrier is at Booth 200.
Chicago is monitoring trials of batteryelectric refuse collection vehicles inFrance, and may float its own solicita-tion for such a truck – if it thinks a U.S.manufacturer can come up with one.
Dow Kokam, a Dow Chemical joint ven-ture making large format lithium ion bat-teries in Michigan and outside Paris,powers nearly a dozen zero-emissiontrucks built by France’s PVI.
Separately, more than 1,000 batteryelectric refuse trucks have reportedlybeen deployed in Beijing.
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Crane LET2 with Bosch Rexroth hydraulic hybriddrive is in test service in New York City.
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Hybrid vehicles, including large ones like refusetrucks, will be the focus at the HTUF 2011 meet-ing in Baltimore, Md. October 10-13.
Natural gas vehicles will be addressed at a broadergathering in the sector’s most important market, asACT Expo 2012 will be held May 14-17 in LongBeach, Calif.
Pasadena, Calif.-based Calstart says that this year’sHybrid Truck Users Forum, the 11th in the series,
is designed to be “the premier meet-
ing-of-the-minds for the future of the work truckindustry.” Calstart is planning 60,000 square feet ofexhibit space, new product reveals, “and the world’slargest advanced medium and heavy-duty ride-and-drive and convoy.” www.htuf2011.org
Calstart is also organizing a sustainability work-shop on advanced clean vehicles in Diamond Bar,Calif. on September 27. www.calstart.org
May’s Alternative Clean Transportation Expo2012 will be the second in the ACT Expo series, butbuilds on a successful string of conferences on cleanvehicles, climate, biomethane, and port-freight topics, all hosted by Santa Monica, Calif-basedGladstein, Neandross & Associates.
GNA provides an array of consulting services,and is assisting with projects including the newWaste Management-Linde landfill-based LNG forgarbage trucks facility in Simi Valley, Calif. (page 10).
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“We’re looking toexpand our pres-ence into the re-fuse space,” saysTrillium USA VPBill Zobel.
Salt Lake City-based Trillium spe-cializes in large-scale compressednatural gas fueling,with transit cus-tomers includingNew York City
(four bus depots), the Orange County Transporta-tion Authority south of Los Angeles, and new con-tracts in San Diego.
For the refuse sector, “We’re coming in with
smaller packages,” Zobel is a SoCal Gas company veteran (and
long-time CNG advocate) who joined Trilliumas business development VP in 2009.
“CNG is the most cost-effective option for thissector,” Zobel says. “If you’ve got access to apipeline, CNG is without question the way to go.”
Trillium (Booth 462) has new systems that aresmaller than its traditional transit installations.
And, it can upgrade and modify existing CNGfueling outlets, and assume operations and main-tenance responsibility.
“The refuse industry needs reliable fueling atfair prices,” Zobel says. “We can deliver that.”
“We have tremendous experience with high-volume customers,” Zobel says. “We’ve got a veryhigh quality offering and exceptional customerservice.”
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Trillium for CNG
HTUF in October, ACT Expo in May WasteCon 2012in Washington
SWANA (Booth 656) is hosting a kick-off par ty for WasteCon 2012 hereThursday afternoon, noting that nextyear’s event will be held in Washing-ton D.C. The dates are Aug. 15-17,2012 at the Gaylord National Resortand Convention Center.
Washington is home to SWANA itself. WasteCon 2012 will be hostedby the Mid-Atlantic and Virginia OldDominion Chapters – and, it marksWasteCon’s 50th anniversary.
The competing Waste Expo show,organized by Stamford, Conn.-basedPenton Business Media, will be heldApril 30–May 3 at the Las Vegas Con-vention Center in Las Vegas, Nev.
Waste Expo 2012 will be the 44thin the series. Exhibits May 1-3.
The Tennessee Propane Gas As-sociation and Middle TennesseeClean Fuels (Clean Cities) aresponsoring a Propel with Propaneworkshop to give fleet managers,municipalities and interested par-ties information on propane andits use as an alternative fuel togasoline and diesel.
The propane meeting is beingheld August 23, from 8:00 a.m.– 1:00 p.m at the Ellington Agri-cultural Center (Ed Jones Audito-rium) here in Nashville. Middle Tennessee Clean Fuels,
Atha Comiskey, 615-884-4908;
www.middletncleanfuels.org
Propane Tuesday in NashvilleThe clean transportation consor-tium Calstart is assisting with bio-methane, or renewable naturalgas, for refuse vehicles. “RNG isthe lowest carbon fuel for trans-portation; it’s abundant; and it’srenewable,” says Calstart presi-dent and CEO John Boesel. “UsingRNG recycles waste, displaces
fossil fuels and mitigates green-house gas emissions.” RNG100% compatible with CNG vehi-cles, Calstart notes, and can bemade with landfill gas, fruit of thevery stuff hauled by refuse com-panies. It has the lowest green-house gas impact of any trans-portation fuel. www.calstart.org
Calstart: Waste Fuels to Cart Waste
Knox Western (NGVAmerica Booth 266) isstepping up its work in CNG fueling in-stallations, opening a public access fa-cility North Little Rock, Ark. this month.
The city has three CNG refuse vehi-cles and expects to deploy more, saysKnox Western’s Dave Pearce.
The Nor th Little Rock installation includes twin BF-50 compressors.
Knox WesternNorth Little Rock
Trillium USA added this time fillsystem to an existing CNG fast-fill installation in Scottsdale.
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