2013 NORTH AMERICAN NGV CONFERENCE & EXPO
NOVEMBER 18-21
An NGVAmerica Welcome to Atlanta News coverage of
Clean Energy’s Broad Reach
‘Redeem’ renewable gas, LNG for trucks, a deepening relationship with GE, gas for ships. —Page 4
AGL Grows the Georgia Infrastructure
CNG Grows in Brooklyn
New York is the latest location for Green Alternative Systems.—Page 9
Agility Loads More Onboard
New tanks help make the case for over-the-road CNG. —Page 10
Trillium Opens All Over
Perry for Frito-Lay is just one of many, including a major project for dairy truckers in Texas. —Page 12
World NGVs in California
NGV Global 2014 co-located with ACT Expo in May. —Page 14
UPS – More LNG Stations
GP Strategies gets the call for additional locations. —Page 15
Let Hexagon Buy You a Drink!
Hexagon Lincoln is sponsoring this evening’s reception at the Ventanas, a rooftop restaurant replete with helipad atop the Hilton Garden Inn. 6-8pm.
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AGL Resources senior commercial operations VP Scott Carter and Georgia Public Service Commissioner Doug Everett with (from left to right) Trey Bordelon, Tom Putnam, Wesley Langdale (with scissors), Lauren “Bubba” McDonald Jr., Gary Black, Austin Scott and Ross Harding at the Atlanta Gas Light-Langdale Fuel CNG station grand opening in Valdosta, Ga. on August 16.
The Atlanta Gas Unit of AGL Resources is building CNG fueling stations under a Georgia Public Service Commission program. The first station, with Langdale Fuel, opened in Valdosta this past summer, and last month AGL announced contracts for CNG fueling stations in Decatur and Oglethorpe. The program also includes two CNG outlets in Atlanta, and stations in Forest Park and Savannah.
Eickelman Named NGVAmerica Chairman Ron Eickelman, president and CTO of Agility Fuel Systems – and former president of both SCI and Pressed Steel Tank – was named NGVAmerica chairman here yesterday.
—More on Agility on Page 10
Star of the Show The up-to-400-hp, 11.9-liter, sparkignition ISX12 G is viewed by many as the enabler for dedicated natural gas as a serious option for over-the-road Class 8 trucks. Manufacturer Cummins Westport is at Booth 715 and the truckbuilders Freightliner and Mack are promoting the new engine here as well.
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Expo Floor Map 3M Company
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A-1 Alternative Fuel Systems
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AGA Systems
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Agility Fuel Systems
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Vender Presentation Theater
Altech-Eco 519 American Natural Gas
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American Power Group
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AMP Americas
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ANGI Energy Systems
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Atlas Copco
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BASF 342 Bauer Compressors
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Bennett Pump Company
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Chrysler Group Fleet
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Clean Energy Fuels
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Clean Vehicle Solutions / CNG Mobile Fueling
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CNG Cylinders International
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CNG Equipment Solutions
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CNG Fuel
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CP Industries
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Trillium CNG 339
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FIBA Technologies
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Ford Motor Company
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Freightliner Trucks
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Jones & Frank
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Fuel Solutions
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J-W Power Company
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Oasis Engineering
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Gas Technology Institute (GTI)
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Kraus Global
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Omnitek Engineering
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Kwik Trip
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TECO Peoples Gas
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Landi Renzo USA
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OPW CleanEnergy Fueling Products
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Tianjin Hi-Tech Ent.
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Linde North America
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P.C. McKenzie Company
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Titeflex Commercial
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Love’s Travel Stops and Country Stores
Parker Hannifin
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Trillium CNG
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Pearce Sales Agency - Aspro
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TruStar Energy
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Luxfer Gas Cylinders
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Phoenix Energy
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Tulsa Gas Technologies
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Mack Trucks
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Pivotal LNG (an AGL Resources Co.)
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Universal Air & Gas Products
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PSB Industries
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US DOE Clean Cities
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PST Cylinders
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Questar Fueling Company
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W. W. Williams
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Quigley Motor Co./Quigley 4x4
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Wayne, A GE Energy Business
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Ratermann Manufacturing
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WEH Technologies
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Georgia Motor Trucking Association 301 GM Fleet & Commercial Operations 221 GNA/ACT Expo/NGV Global 2014 321 GNC Galileo
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GP Strategies
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Rush Refuse System
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Isuzu Commercial Truck of America
NGVAmerica and Canadian NGV Alliance Lounge
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Northville Natural Gas Fuels
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Sensor Electronics Corporation
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SouthStar Energy Services (an AGL Resources Co.)
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SSP 438
Westport 616 Worthington Cylinders
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Xebec Adsorption
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xperion Energy & Environment GmbH
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Zoltek Corporation
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Welcome to Atlanta from Atlanta Gas On behalf of Atlanta Gas Light and its parent company, AGL Resources, it is my pleasure to welcome you to Atlanta for the North American Natural Gas Vehicle Conference & Expo (NGVAmerica). We are pleased to be a platinum to support the 1996 Olymsponsor for this conference because pics and our city’s clean we believe in and strongly support air goals. Today MARTA what NGVAmerica represents. has 370 buses powered by I have been in the natural gas CNG, with plans to conbusiness for more than 30 years, vert the entire municipal and I can tell you that today our fleet to natural gas by 2018. industry is in a unique position. So if you hop on a city bus There has never been a time during your visit here, you when the outlook for the natural likely will be riding in a gas industry has been so positive. vehicle powered by CNG. Opportunities have aligned to creOur success with municipal ate the momentum we have now, Hank Linginfelter bus conversions has led to and I sincerely believe that natural gas is on the more CNG planned for the city. Soon, when cusp of something great. And there’s no better you see a City of Atlanta sanitation truck picking place to discuss the future of natural gas vehicles up trash, it likely will be powered by CNG, as than the great city of Atlanta. well. Atlanta Gas Light is building new CNG With the support of our Public Service Com- infrastructure in Metro Atlanta to support those mission, AGL has cultivated a nearly 20-year endeavors and additional partnerships to come. partnership with the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid The unprecedented growth in domestic supTransit Authority (MARTA) to support the con- ply of natural gas and the resulting economic version of its municipal bus fleet from diesel advantage continue to drive innovation, and we to compressed natural gas, which was initiated are seeing the results firsthand. The automobile
and heavy duty vehicle industries have made several announcements over the past few months regarding natural gas vehicles that will be available in the near future. Businesses are converting their fleets to alternative fuels like CNG and liquefied natural gas – LNG – because they are aware of the economic and environmental benefits. There are opportunities everywhere to make natural gas the fueling source of our future. At AGL Resources, we are committed enterprisewide to using our voice, our resources and our expertise to propel the natural gas industry forward, and NGVs are an important part of that progress. Events like the NGVAmerica Conference and Expo present an invaluable opportunity to learn, share and collectively move us toward a more secure and environmentally responsible energy future. Welcome to Atlanta! My colleagues and I hope to speak with you about natural gas and how it can fuel your future before you leave.
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NGVAmerica general counsel and regulatory affairs director Jeff Clarke presided over a meeting of the NGVAmerica board during the association’s annual meeting here yesterday. Besides naming Agility Fuel Systems president (and veteran of SCI
and Pressed Steel Tank) as the new NGVAmerica chairman, the board tackled a raft of legislative and regulatory issues, as well as market development matters and association service enhancements – including development of a new, “members only” section of www.ngvc.com.
The NGVAmerica board agenda for Monday included reviews of • California Air Resources Board and other state aftermarket certification issues, • the treatment by states of weights and measures as they pertain to CNG and LNG, • EPA enforcement issues, • the Federal Highway Administration’s “Buy America” criteria, • correction of federal excise tax on LNG to be consistent with diesel-gallon energy equivalence • status of NGV-related tax incentives within in the context of broader tax reform efforts
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underway in Washington, • state taxes, • maximum GVWR waiver/weight allowances for CNG and LNG fuel storage on trucks, • tunnel restrictions on CNG and LNG, • Clean Cities funding, • light duty CAFE guidance modifications for NGVs, and • development of “model bill” language to assist state NGV advocacy efforts. NGVAmerica and the Canadian NGV Alliance are at Booth 425.
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Clean Energy: ‘Breaking Down the Barriers’ Southern California’s Clean Energy Fuels, which started out with just a handful of people and the inspiration (and backing) of domestic fuels visionary T. Boone Pickens, has grown to be a public company with more than 1,000 employees and more than 400 fueling stations in the U.S. and Canada – supporting more than 30,000 natural gas vehicles per day.
Lowe’s is the latest household name company to go green by having its hauler, in this case NFI with a new fleet of 17 LNG-fueled Peterbilt 384s in Texas, switch to natural gas.
Recent news includes the first broad commercial distribution of renewable natural gas for vehicles – Clean Energy (Booth 631) calls it “Redeem,” vindication of a strategy to enlist the truckers who haul for name brand companies to use natural gas – NFI for Lowe’s is the latest to commit, and a broadening relationship with GE for both financing and large-scale LNG production. “We’re breaking down the barriers to entry that may have prevented some fleet owners from making the transition to natural gas,” said Clean Energy president and CEO Andrew Littlefair. “Our goal is to work with fleet operators to achieve a one-year payback on the incremental cost of natural gas heavy-duty trucks.” “All the fleets are trying it,” says Jim Harger, one of Clean Energy’s first employees and now chief marketing officer of the $324 million company. “We’ve got plenty of supply,” he told ShowTimes. CERF, the company’s Clean Energy Renewable Fuels unit, early last month unveiled the tradename “Redeem” for renewable natural gas – produced at landfills in Dallas and Michigan (more sources are in development) and injected into the national natural gas pipeline grid. Also last month, Clean Energy reported a contract with Lowe’s logistics supplier NFI to supply the retailer’s trucks with liquefied natural gas fuel. NFI is deploying 17 Peterbilt 384 day cab tractors with the 400-horsepower version of the new 11.9-liter ISX12 G engine from Cummins Westport (Booth 715) at the Lowe’s regional distribution center in Mount Vernon, Texas. 4
Clean Energy Fuels is urging its customers to use its Redeem name to help proclaim their green credentials.
“Our goal is to replace all of our diesel-powered dedicated fleets with natural gas trucks by the end of 2017,” said Lowe’s transportation VP Steve Palmer. Clean Energy will support the Lowe’s-NFI fleet in Texas by opening a natural gas station in Sulphur Springs. Besides financing, Clean Energy’s partnership with GE covers Micro LNG liquefaction facilities from GE Oil & Gas – “micro” to GE perhaps but large from the NGV standpoint: a just-announced facility to be built in Jacksonville, Fla. would be able to turn out approximately 300,000 gallons of LNG per day. It’s the first project to be developed by Eagle LNG Partners, a new consortium of Clean Energy, GE Ventures, GE Energy Financial Services and Ferus Natural Gas Fuels, and is intended to serve not only truck, but emerging
Clean Buys Lunch; RNG Breakout Today Clean Energy is sponsoring today’s luncheon, where the featured speaker will be Mark Hazelwood, president of Pilot Flying J, the truck stop operator hosting many of Clean Energy’s America’s Natural Gas Highway LNG fueling stations. Harrison Clay, president of Clean Energy’s Clean Energy Renewable Fuels unit, will participate in the Renewable Natural Gas breakout session this afternoon at 1:30.
marine and rail markets for natural gas. “Establishing LNG capacity in Jacksonville is a critical strategic effort to enable LNG fueling throughout the Southeast region for our various market segments,” said Clean Energy LNG production VP Brian Powers. Construction in Jacksonville could start in the second quarter of 2014 with the plant completed in the fourth quarter of 2015, with shipments in 2016. Clean Energy and GE are also planning Micro LNG facilities in the Northeast and Midwest. Besides CERF for Redeem biomethane, Clean Energy subsidiaries include IMW for CNG fueling stations and NorthStar for LNG. The firm sold its BAF Technologies NGV conversion business, bought for $8.3 in autumn 2009, to Westport Innovations (Booth 616) for $30 million this past June.
Wayne CNG Dispensers Italy-based GE Energy’s Wayne unit (the former Dresser) is promoting CNG dispensers here, noting that its products “offer sleek styling, ease-of-use, durability, and high throughput rates to meet the growing demand for environmentally friendly fueling systems.” A Wayne “Global Vista” unit is pictured here. Booth 538.
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High Times for Hexagon Lincoln Hexagon Lincoln is celebrating 50 years in business and 20 years of supplying lightweight all-composite Type IV CNG fuel cylinders – the Tuffshell. For nearly ten years the Nebraska company has been a unit of Norway’s Hexagon Composites, and it is riding the wave of NGV expansion in North America. Hexagon Lincoln is doubling the size of its plant in Lincoln – again. Parent Hexagon Composites cited the advent of the 11.9-liter, up-to-400-horsepower ISX12 G engine from Cummins Westport in its latest earnings report and stated, “Most of the end customers in North America are reported to
The large-diameter tanks allow for more gas on a truck, configured for better aerodynamics by assembly specialists like Agility Fuel Systems (Booth 231). A back-of-cab array unveiled by Agility this past summer uses three 26-by-80-inch Hexagon Lincoln tanks and can hold 120 diesel gallon equivalents.
Hexagon Lincoln is again doubling its production capability at Lincoln, Neb., with a new manufacturing line slated to become operational at the end of next year.
of exchange, to double Lincoln’s production capability for Type IV all-composite compressed natural gas fuel cylinders – again. “During the second half of 2013, Lincoln’s
“After trying CNG and LNG trucks in pilot fleets, we chose CNG and cylinders from Hexagon Lincoln for our own systems,” —Swift equipment purchasing and shop operations VP Russ Thompson
Hexagon Lincoln showed this Titan tube trailer at the recent HHP Summit meeting in Chicago.
be choosing CNG rather than LNG systems. Hexagon Composites is the market leader in CNG tanks.” Hexagon Lincoln (Booth 122) late last month reported a $5 million order for its Tuffshell brand CNG cylinders for 200 Freightliner Cascadia tractors for Phoenix-based Swift Transportation – powered by the ISX12 G. “After trying CNG and LNG trucks in pilot fleets, we chose CNG and cylinders from Hexagon Lincoln for our own systems,” Swift equipment purchasing and shop operations VP Russ Thompson says in Hexagon Lincoln’s announcement. The Tuffshell tanks, the manufacturer says, “allow fleet owners the flexibility of increased range with less compromise of payload capacity and wheelbase. The company’s 26-inch tank family, officially launched in January this year, are the largest Type 4 NGV fuel tanks in the marketplace.” 6
Hexagon Lincoln claims “the best combination of weight savings, stored volume, robustness and cost in the industry.” “This is why industry leaders like Swift Transportation choose our CNG cylinders over the competition,” said Hexagon Lincoln business development manager Dave Myers. And it’s part of the reason why parent Hexagon composites said late this past spring that it would invest an estimated 150 Norwegian krone, upwards of $25.2 million at current rates
capacity will have doubled in relation to its capacity in 2012,” the company said. “The planned production line is expected to once again double the production capacity for CNG cylinders for the bus and truck market (Tuffshell) compared with the second half of 2013. “This corresponds to four times the capacity in 2012. The new production line is expected to be operational towards the end of 2014.” “This investment will give Hexagon Lincoln an automated and dedicated production line aimed specifically at the production of pressure cylinders for larger vehicles,” the company says. “Because of the great market potential for pressure cylinders for larger vehicles in the USA, we wish to take the lead with essential investments so that we can meet customer needs,” Hexagon Composites CEO Tore Fjell says in the company announcement. “We wish to establish an automated and cost-effective production line, so as to achieve the greatest possible competitive effect,” Fjell said. Hexagon Lincoln is known too for its huge Titan cylinders – Type IV tanks measuring 42 inches in diameter and 38 feet in length. Titan tube trailers, generally with four cylinders each, are used for mother-and-daughter CNG fueling arrangements, and for supplying off-pipeline industrial facilities and energy EW&P – exploration and production customers. Cummins Westport is at Booth 715. Freightliner Trucks is at Booth 613.
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Bauer Expands Compressor Line Virginia-based Bauer Compressor has expanded its product line, offering integrated packages that can turn out CNG at rates of just 6.3 cubic feet per minute up to 710 cfm. “We now have CNG compressors that will fit the smaller applications to the large high volume users,” says business development manager Paula Hebert.
Inside a Bauer Micro
The range includes: • Micro series – 6.3 to 9 cfm; • Compact series – 16 to 40 cfm; • Medium series – 50 to 145 cfm; and • Large series 75 to 710 cfm. Among the larger units, Bauer earlier this year repackaged its C28 as the C28.0 – or C28.0S with optional three-pack ASMR storage tanks. Hebert notes too that the versatile Bauer units can handle inlet pressures ranging from 5 psi to 550 psi. “We can offer comprehensive options to fit most customers’ needs,” she told ShowTimes. “This guarantees the perfect CNG fueling experience.” Bauer’s CNG compressor packages, she
Bauer offers Micro, Compact, Medium and Large series compressors.
adds, “are designed for longevity, a 30-year life, and the lowest cost of ownership.” Bauer uses compressor blocks from its parent in Germany and manufactures its compressor packages in Norfolk, Va. New customers in the Southeast include Alagasco and Cullman-Jefferson Gas in Ala., and Snapping Shoals EMC in Covington, Ga. All Bauer units come with a two-year, all-inclusive parts and labor warranty. Bauer offers 24/7 technical support, Hebert notes, as well as ongoing product support through Bauer University. Bauer is showing a Micro series compressor at Booth 530.
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Questar Opens in Texas A new Questar station in Houston is said to be the nation’s largest CNG station, with 120 timefill lanes for anchor truck customers and a fivelane public access fast-fill area. A Grand Opening is slated for tomorrow, November 20. Waco, Texas-based Central added 100 CNG-fueled M2 112 Questar Fueling opens CNG fueling facility in Houston, Texas. trucks to its fleet of more than 1,600 vehiQuestar (Booth 829), an affiliate of Salt Lake City’s cles, manufacturer Freightliner reported in Questar Gas, decided last year to follow up on September. The firm also operates natural gasits long experience in Utah – starting with 25 fueled Peterbilt day cab tractors. vehicle conversions in 1981 and by 2012 operatSwift is deploying 200 CNG-fueled Class ing a network of 28 public access CNG stations 8 Freightliner Cascadia trucks – they’ll have around the state – and has since successfully $5 million worth of Type IV fuel cylinders from taken its expertise national. Hexagon Lincoln (Booth 122) – a platinum sponIn January Questar said it would build the sor here this week. station in Houston in support of Class 8 trucks In mid-2013, Questar won a competitive operated by Central Freight Lines and Swift bid with PepsiCo/Frito-Lay as the food giant Transportation. Questar tapped ANGI Energy said it would be the primary customer for a new Systems (Booth 430) for new station equipment, network of public access CNG fueling stations. and said, “These trucks are projected to use Frito-Lay made the pioneering point it would about 5 million gallons of natural gas per year.” purchase a base volume of gas from the new
stations, giving vendors the support they needed to justify building natural gas infrastructure, and that by year-end it will have more than 200 CNG tractors. Questar secured the contact for FritoLay stations in Killingly, Conn., and Topeka, Kan. Topeka is up and running, with Killingly to follow. Both, like Houston, are using ANGI equipment. Judd Cook 801-201-1529
EcoDual – Beyond the Dual Fuel Truck? South Carolina’s EcoDual, which is promoting updated equipment for converting heavy duty trucks to
CNG-diesel dual fuel operation. IHB specified Cummins QSKseries engines with EcoDual
“A breakthrough in natural gas substitution rates,”... promising to save operators 25% on their overall fuel costs. dual fuel natural gas-diesel operation, is in line to provide its equipment for an historic Chicago-area CNG locomotive project too. Under a just-approved CMAQ award, the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad is negotiating contracts to convert 31 locomotives to
A GP-40 locomotive operated by the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad
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conversion gear in its CMAQ application. The locomotive conversions would be carried out by MP&ES – Motive Power & Equipment Solutions, of Greenville, S.C. For trucks here in Atlanta, EcoDual (Booth 743) is promoting an improved dual fuel conversion system for Class 8 tractors called Max/SR 2.0 – and is emphasizing that the new upfit product includes a two-year unlimited mileage warranty, said to be an industry first. Max/SR 2.0 features “a breakthrough in natural gas
Joe Stenger of Barnesville, Ohio-based JW Stenger Trucking, EcoDual CEO Mike Donoughe, Chuck Diehl of Ohio’s Smith Dairy, Sam Spofforth of Clean Fuels Ohio, and John Reale of EcoDual with EcoDual-converted Smith Dairy 2004 Kenworth T800.
substitution rates,” the company says, promising to save operators 25% on their overall fuel costs. Further, Max/SR 2.0 is said
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to be “more reliable, durable and lighter, while also decreasing installation time, emissions and maintenance expenses.”
G.A.S. Takes Its Business National “We’re the largest converter of transit and fleet vehicles in the United States,” says Sean Connolly, GM of Chino, Calif.-based Green Alternative Systems. “We’ve done over 5,000 conversions.” Fleet customers include UPS and the uniform providers AmeriPride and Aramark. For transit operators, GAS offerings include Altoona-certified Ford E-450 chassis shuttle buses. GAS now boasts a nearly a dozen locations nationwide, with the latest in Brooklyn, N.Y., where the company perceived a market need. Customers there include Neapolitan Express, which operates CNG-fueled pizza trucks – and
which garnered national attention early this year when Mayor Michael Bloomberg and T. Boone Pickens grabbed some pie outside City Hall in Lower Manhattan. GAS uses equipment from Westport (Booth 616) for Ford conversions and from Landi Renzo USA-Baytech for GM vehicles. The firm also does propane autogas upfits. GAS was formed in 2006 by Chino-based
Creative Bus Sales, which had been doing CNG conversions since 1997. In 2009, GAS set up shop in Elkhart, Ind. to take advantage of shuttle bus activity there. Today, in addition to Chino, Elkhart and Brooklyn, GAS performs vehicle conversions in Hayward and Sacramento, Calif., in Irving, Texas; in Las Vegas and Phoenix, and in Orlando and Jacksonville, Fla. Here at Booth 213, GAS is emphasizing not only aftermarket conversions, but after-sales service: “Second to none,” says Connolly. Even billionaires eat pizza! New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg and T. Boone Pickens chow down on CNG-powered pie from Neapolitan Express.
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Agility Likes ’em Thick Agility Fuel Systems is taking advantage of larger-diameter CNG fuel cylinders to craft onboard fuel system storage assemblies with greater capacity – hence affording greater vehicle range. CNG Freightliner operator Saddle Creek is a lead customer. Freightliner and Saddle Creek Transportation DelBovo calls the Generation IV have unveiled Cascadia 113 tractors with an Agil- design should allow range of 700 ity (Booth 231) CNG fuel tank assembly that’s miles with just three back-of-cab expected to yield true 700-mile range and, with cylinders. They’ll hold 120 DGE – Saddle Creek president Mike DelBovo explains how the dual inlets on the Agility Fuel Systems CNG tank assembly allow lower costs because of fewer tanks, an ROI as diesel gallon equivalents. fueling from both time-fill and fast-fill dispensers. low as three years. And, “We’re projecting that The key, says Saddle Creek president Mike it’ll save as much as 500 pounds,” 430 tractors. Last month Ryder System (816) DelBovo, is “shorter, fatter” CNG cylinders DelBovo said. announced that Saddle Creek would be adding allowing the back-of-cab tank array from Agility Saddle Creek disclosed an order for ten Cas- 30 Freightliner Cascadia trucks in Texas, and to fit without any horizontal protrusion, signifi- cadia 113s with new Agility tank package at ACT one leased vehicle in Louisiana. cantly improving tractor aerodynamics. Expo 2013 in Washington, D.C. Saddle Creek has a Clean Energy Fuels (631) “When complete, this will mark the first time The assembly shown in Washington used CNG installation at its Lakeland, Fla. headquara natural gas system will be fully enclosed behind new 26-inch diameter Tuffshell brand Type IV ters, fuels with Clean Energy here in Atlanta too, the side and back of cab aerodynamic fairings,” tanks from Hexagon Lincoln (122). and is a lead customer at the new Atlanta Gas says Freightliner (Booth 613). As of this past July, Saddle Creek had more Light-Langdale station in Valdosta, Ga., near NGV The CC improved 1/3 Page_NGV aerodynamics CC 1/3 Page 10/17/13 of what 10:08 than AM100 Page CNG 1 Freightliners out of a fleet of the Florida line.
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3M Expands CNG Cylinder Line “We’re continuing to certify the tanks and expand the portfolio,” says Rick Maveus of 3M (Booth 725). The company launched a new breed of all-composite Type IV CNG cylinder with a proprietary, nanoparticulate composite matrix material last year, and this year reported American National Standards Institute (ANSI NGV2-2007) certification of its first product, a cylinder measuring 21-by60 inches. 3M’s silica-filled resin is said to better translate the strength properties of carbon fiber, allowing less to be used, thereby reducing cost. At ACT Expo in Washington this past June, 3M showed a 26-by-80-inch tank, now likewise certified for use. Also new are 18.5-inch diameter tanks. Diesel/gasoline gallon equivalent capacities range from 11.4 DGE/12.8 GGE to 42.4 DGE/47.5 GGE per cylinder.
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GM Touts New NGVs General Motors (Booth 221) has publicized several new NGVs, including an Impala sedan for 2015 with direct-injection 3.6-liter engine to be upfitted for CNG by Roush (better known for propane upfits) using a fuel system from Quantum. Existing GM NGVs and the new ones for 2014 are modified for either dedicated-CNG or CNG-gasoline bi-fuel operation by Impco Automotive (Booth 306) in Union City, Ind. New for next year is a bi-fuel Chevy Cruze sedan by Impco. “We are thrilled to obtain the first EPA certification for a MY2014 bi-fuel sedan that provides both fleets and consumers an option,” said Mariano Costamagna, CEO of Impco parent Fuel Systems Solutions, Inc.
“The after-market kits we have developed for the MY2014 Chevrolet Cruze offer a robust solution that eliminates ‘range anxiety’ by including an 8.4 gasoline gallon equivalent (GGE) tank as standard equipment,” he said. The Type III carbon fiber-on-aluminum GM chairman and CEO Dan Akerson with new CNGCNG fuel cylinder for the Cruze is by gasoline bi-fuel vehicle in Washington last month. Worthington-SCI (Booth 531). with both two- and four-wheel-drive options. GM offers dedicated-CNG Chevrolet “With these new vehicles, General Motors Express and GMC Savana vehicles as passenger offers the most comprehensive lineup of vans for 2014, joining the current cargo versions manufacturer-engineered, validated and warranted Questar Rebuild3 Final.pdf 1 7/30/12 7:00 PM of the vehicles. CNG vehicles; helping fleet managers manage GM has also promised new bi-fuel versions of their budget and reduce their carbon footprint,” its bi-fuel Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra said US. fleet and commercial sales VP Ed Peper. pickups for 2015, expanding the range to include The vehicles are fully warranted and validated 2500HD and 3500HD models in all cab styles by GM.
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Chart Wins Contract For 20 LNG Stations Chart Industries (Booth 713) said late last month that it’s won a contract from a major oil company to build and commission 20 retail LNG fueling stations across North America. “The 20 LNG fueling stations will be built at existing truck stop sites with the intention of adding dispensers alongside existing diesel fueling lanes,” Chart said. The work is expected to be completed by the second quarter of 2015. Fuel will be produced offsite and trucked to the fueling outlets. “After developing core technologies for vehicle fueling 20 years ago, it’s gratifying to see acceleration in fueling station deployment,” said Bill Haukoos, VP for global LNG products with Chart Distribution & Storage. That “major oil company?” Neither will confirm it, but Chart’s likeliest customer is Shell. “I can only assume it’s Shell,” says one of several sources polled. Shell provides LNG at several truck stops in Alberta, and has publicized plans with TravelCenters of America to build a nationwide U.S. network.
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Trillium Opens All Over A new public access fueling station for FritoLay in Perry, in central Georgia, is just one of many as Trillium CNG hits its stride as a unit of Integrys Energy. The Chicago-based utility parent acquired Trillium USA and affiliate Pinnacle CNG in September 2011, and folded Pinnacle’s hydraulic intensifier technology for better CNG fills into the present-day unit. In June, Trillium (Booth 335) said it would build 101 CNG fueling stations in 29 states through 2016. Among them, Trillium is building a CNG station serving the Port of Tampa from the second quarter of 2014, augmenting a facility already under construction for Dillon Transport in Tampa and opening this month. Earlier in October, Trillium partner Amp Americas (339) Trillium CNG disclosed a deal with station for Frito-Lay Dairy Farmers of in Jonesboro, Ark. America and Select
Milk Producers for CNG trucks in Texas. The Amp-Trillium joint venture will build seven public-access fueling stations by early 2014, “and lease new CNG trucks that will travel more than 13.2 million miles per year, servicing routes throughout Texas.” The Amp-Trillium CNG stations will be built in Waco, Amarillo, Harrold, Sweetwater, Weatherford, Kerrville and Midland. They will initially fuel 40 new Class 8 Kenworth and Peterbilt CNG sleeper trucks, “a number that will double over the course of the agreement.” The result will be “a network of public, fastfill CNG stations across all of the major Texas corridors that can be used by any fleet running trucks across the state,” said Amp Americas CEO Nathan Laurell. Trillium has broken into groceries too, building a station for the SuperValu chain at a distribution center in Mechanicsville, Va.. Trillium supports bus fleets as well. Recent work includes a high-volume, fast-fill CNG station project for GRTC Transit in Richmond, Va. GRTC is replacing all of its diesel bus fleet – 152 buses – with NGVs, and is switching 78 paratransit buses from gasoline to natural gas as vehicles are retired from the fleet.
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Like other Trillium installations, the Richmond station features the firm’s patented HY-C technology which dispenses CNG at a rate similar to diesel using a hydraulic compressor. A smart control system will yield power costs savings as great as 30% while maintaining fast fuel rates. “We specialize in fueling public transit bus fleets economically, quickly and efficiently,” said Trillium CNG president Mary Boettcher. The Frito-Lay station in Perry, Ga. is one of six won by Trillium, as the PepsiCo company moved last year to act as anchor tenant for a network of stations – thereby helping build a national CNG fueling infrastructure. Besides Perry, Trillium CNG will fuel Frito-Lay and other CNG vehicles in Beloit, Wisc., Jonesboro, Ark.; Orlando, Fla.; Charlotte, N.C.; and Rosenberg, Texas.
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Westport: A Year In Transition It’s a transition year for Westport Innovations, as the company stopped taking orders for its former flagship, the high pressure direct injection, LNG-only Westport 15L last week. Yet Westport remains one of the biggest names in NGVs, whether through the spark-ignition engines from the Cummins Westport joint venture or an increasingly diversified raft of products from Westport Innovations – including the former BAF Technologies for Ford vehicle upfits. Westport Innovations (Booth 616) comes to Atlanta with a new order for 900 of its iCE Pack brand LNG tanks from Houston’s Universal LNG Solutions. “The availability of iCE Pack gives ULNG the ability to offer our customers a package solution with dedicated infrastructure, LNG fuel and vehicle LNG fuel systems,” said Universal CEO Jeffrey Liu.
Freightliner (Booth 613) and Mack (114) are Westport’s dedicatedamong the companies promoting ISX12 G- natural gas 8.9-liter ISL powered trucks here. G engines had entered service. Islandbefore half page x 8.125” advent from Stephe Yborra, Natural Vehicles America Even thead—5” commercial of Worldwide, theGas firms claim afortotal of Ad produced by DRPollard & Assoc Inc 703-716-0071 — JULY 29, 2011 the ISX12 G, more than 10,000 of Cummins more than 35,000 engines in service.
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Only about 40% of the 900 units to be shipped over the next two years will be for transportation, Liu estimates. Many will go for industrial applications, he told ShowTimes, including energy exploration and production: drilling and fracking. Liu said his firm is also working with Westport on a recently disclosed project for an LNG-fueled tugboat. Elsewhere in the emerging high-horsepower sector, Westport is offering LNG tenders or tender cars for natural gas-fueled locomotives. In light duty vehicles, Westport bolstered the former Westport LD line of OMVL, Emer and other NGV equipment, and upfits of natural gas pickup trucks in Louisville, Ky., by buying BAF Technologies and Servo-Tech from Clean Energy Fuels for $30 million this past June. The Westport unit, already a Ford QVM – Qualified Vehicle Modifier – with BAFServoTech becomes a Ford QCM – Qualified Calibration Modifier – as well. Cummins Westport (Booth 715), a 50-50 joint venture with Cummins dating from 2001, is basking in the popularity of its new, up-to-400-horsepower, 11.9-liter spark-ignition dedicated-natural gas ISX12 G, an engine widely credited with opening the over-the-road truck market to natural gas.
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Ryder for Blu LNG and Saddle Creek CNG Ryder System’s efforts to provide natural gas-fueled trucks for lease is gaining momentum, as the Florida-based company last month disclosed deals for 31 compressed natural gas-fueled trucks for Saddle Creek and 55 liquefied natural gas-fueled trucks for Blu.
fleets for a first-hand opportunity to measure the results and savings that come from adopting a lower-cost fuel. Freightliner is at Booth 613. “Ryder is making investments to upgrade its existing maintenance facilities, one in Salt Lake City and one at its Fulton Industrial Center location outside of Atlanta, to meet the unique specifications required to service natural gas vehicles.” Ryder and Blu have also entered into an agreement to jointly provide LNG fueling infrastruc-
Ryder (Booth 816) started in California in spring Saddle Creek president Mike DelBovo. 2010 with approximately 200 mostly Freightliner Saddle Creek is already a customer of this trucks in a federally backed project with Sanbag, week’s conference host, Atlanta Gas Light, which the San Bernardino Associated Governments. earlier this year opened a CNG fueling station Ryder then extended its rental reach to Arizona, in Valdosta, Ga. Michigan and Louisiana. The Ryder NGVs for Saddle Creek in Texas Thirty CNGfueled Freightliner Cascadia trucks, with 11.9 Cummins Westport ISX12 G engines, for Saddle Creek in the Dallas-Fort Worth area are the first Ryder NGVs in Texas (a 31st vehicle is for Saddle Creek in Louisiana). Thirty-five LNGfueled Peterbilt 386 tractors for Blu in Salt Lake City, with the Fueling a Ryder LNG truck. Fueling a Ryder CNG truck. 15-liter high pressure direct injection engine and LNG fuel system are being made available through Ryder’s partici- ture at key Ryder facilities. The Fulton Indusfrom Westport Innovations, are the first Ryder pation in the Texas Natural Gas Vehicle Grant trial Center location will be the first of these NGVs for Utah. Program (TNGVGP), funded by the Texas co-located stations, supporting Ryder’s contract Blu’s ten Peterbilt 384 and 15 Freightliner Emissions Reduction Plan (TERP) initiatives customers and will accept all major fleet cards. Cascadia trucks for Atlanta, all powered by the and administered by the Texas Commission on In addition to its placement of natural ISX12 G, are the first Ryder NGVs for Georgia. Environmental Quality (TCEQ). gas trucks with Saddle Creek and Blu, Ryder Saddle Creek will take delivery of its new Blu (Booth 612) began to take delivery of its recently reported a Flex-to-Green lease for ten CNG vehicles during the first quarter of 2014, Ryder trucks for Salt Lake City in September new diesel trucks with the Pennsylvania MacaRyder says. and will receive its Atlanta vehicles in January, roni Company, a Pittsburgh firm that’s been in “Because this is such a leading-edge technol- Ryder says. “Blu will make natural gas vehicles business since 1902. ogy, relationships like the one we have estab- available to companies in these markets that are The Flex-to-Green lease includes an option to lished with Ryder are critical to our success,” said interested in testing the LNG trucks in their convert the vehicles to natural gas after one year.
The Next Big Thing — World NGVs “Will North America be the world’s next big natural gas vehicle market?” asks Alicia Milner, president of the Ottawa-based Canadian NGV Alliance (Booth 425) – and of NGV Global. Her answer? An emphatic Yes. “Given the strong forward movement for natural gas for onroad, marine, rail, and offroad markets in the United States and Canada,” she told ShowTimes, “It’s timely that NGV Global’s biennial Conference & Exhibition will be held in Long Beach, California from May 5-9, 2014.” NGV Global 2014 will be co-located with ACT Expo 2014, the Alternative Clean 14
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UPS Putting $50 Million into LNG UPS has greatly elaborated on its plans for LNG trucks, as announced at ACT Expo 2013 in Washington, D.C. this past June. The Atlantabased package delivery giant is pledging an investment of some $50 million to build nine more LNG fueling stations for a total of 13, all to be operational by the end of 2014. “The enhanced LNG fueling infrastructure will support the operation of approximately 1,000 UPS LNG tractors that will displace more than 24 million gallons of diesel fuel annually,” UPS says. GP Strategies Corp (Booth 235) followed the LNG announcement with word that it would build the 13 new UPS fueling stations, stating that each will include three or more 18,000gallon LNG storage vessels and two or more dispensers, allowing them to support more than 100 trucks daily. “The natural gas industry needs companies to commit to using natural gas to help establish a reliable alternative to traditional fuel, and that is just what UPS is doing,” said UPS chief operating officer David Abney. “LNG is becoming more readily available, plus it’s more insulated from market volatilities than diesel fuel.” The UPS fueling infrastructure expansion will include onsite LNG fueling stations in Florida,
Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas. Construction is already underway at previously announced UPS facilities in Tennessee and Texas. UPS operates LNG tractors in Las Vegas, Phoenix, Beaver and Salt Lake City in Utah, and, Ontario, Calif. The designs for UPS include expansion capabilities to allow for additional LNG storage vessels and LNG dispensers to meet UPS’s demand for its growing LNG fleet, GP said. “Building these fueling stations is a solid future investment for UPS,” said Abney. “Since
vehicles represent approximately 35% of UPS’s carbon footprint, a cornerstone of the company’s environmental strategy is to support the development and use of lower-emission alternative fuels. “By 2017, our goal is to reach one billion miles driven by our alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet.” In addition to the over-the-road LNG tractors, UPS operates approximately 1,000 CNG package delivery vehicles. The company said it will begin a pilot program testing CNG tractors in early 2014. “Between 2000 and the end of 2012, the UPS alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet logged 295 million miles,” UPS says.
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