NAVISTAR TO INVEST IN DANISH EXHAUST GAS CLEANING TECHNOLOGY
Published at 04.01.2010 in Components, Environment
Press Release With Navistar’s choice of Advanced EGR to satisfy 2010 EPA emissions standards, the company needed a technology that could help reduce NOx emissions. It’s found that solution in the form of the Amminex solution. The American truck and bus manufacturer has reached agreement to purchase an interest in Amminex, a Danish company that provides a metal ammine-based NOx reductant delivery system.
BIOFUEL: NOT JUST ONE PERFECT SOLUTION
Published at 02.01.2010 in Alternatives, Environment
Biodiesel, bioethanol and biomethane can meanwhile be produced from a multitude of plants. Besides rapeseed, grains, oil palms and sugarcane, even flora such as the Barbados nut or camelina flowering plant may be considered. The latter two offer the advantage that they will grow on relatively infertile ground, and thus do not compete with the cultivation of food crops—for this is the main complaint about biofuels at the present time.
THE FUEL OF THE FUTURE COMES FROM THE SEA
Published at 01.01.2010 in Alternatives, Environment
That is the conclusion of an article in a recent MAN newsletter, from which we quote here. The production of biofuel from algae is currently one of the hottest stories in the already booming green energy market. Just a few years ago it was mocked as a fantasy: now, even the US Department of Defense has ordered 76,000 liters of algae-derived biodiesel from the Californian start-up company Solarzyme, in order to conduct comprehensive testing. BP has invested $10 million in the new technology; Microsoft founder Bill Gates, has also come on board with $60 million.
GERMAN ENGINEERS DEVELOP CLEAN, LOW EMISSION DIESEL ENGINE
Published at 21.12.2009 in Technology, Environment
Scientists at the Technical University of Munich, TUM have developed a diesel engine that is already close to meeting the more stringent Euro 6 emissions standard. A research team headed by Prof. Georg Wachtmeister from the Chair of Internal Combustion Engines has succeeded in reducing the pollutants in exhaust emissions to barely measurable levels. The engineers at the TUM have also developed a probe that allows them to take samples from the combustion chamber during the combustion process itself. With this method the scientists hope to discover precisely how soot forms, with the aim of developing new methods for emissions control.
EUROPEAN BUS SYSTEMS OF THE FUTURE (EBSF) EARNS FIRST SUCCESSES FROM EUROPEAN COMMISSION EXPERTS
Published at 15.12.2009 in Public transport, Environment
The EBSF project, undertaken by the European Union and coordinated by the International Association of Public Transport (UITP), successfully completed its First Review Meeting with the European Commission and its experts, presenting the achievements of the first year of the project.
