LOGISTICS OF NATURAL GAS APPLICATIONS AS ENGINE FUEL

Abstract

Using the car certainly leaves traces in our environment and the task of engineers is to design vehicles with the least adverse impact on the environment. According to our experiences many factors are in favor of the natural gas vehicles: the combustion of natural gas produces low emissions, in particular regarding the emissions of particulate matter and nitrogen oxide. This enables producers to make vehicles comply with the challenging and voluntary Enhanced Environmentally friendly Vehicle (EEV) emission standard, without using extensive filter technology and additives, like for diesel drive. In addition, this paper demonstrates the completed system-logistics from the production of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) vehicles by the exploitation. In the paper, also shown are the solutions for the reconstruction of diesel-powered local bus into dedicated natural gas vehicle.