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Clean Truck News at WasteCon Enter Questar Fueling Outfit with deep experience in Utah makes WasteCon debut, wants to build natural gas fueling stations across America. —Page 4
Biomethane Lives! Clean Energy and customers including Republic Services and Waste Management soldier on. —Pages 4 & 14
Autocar-Parker Hydraulic Hybrid Dick Wilde, director of public works for Seymour, Ind. at far left with Seymour sanitation supervisor John Edwards – and The Men Who Haul with the Hybrid: Tim Peacock, Rick Ketcham, Daniel Croquart, Wayne Stradley, Chad Dixon, and Joe Wilson. Their new Autocar E3 with RunWise brand series hydraulic hybrid drivetrain by Parker Hannifin is being shown by Autocar at Booth 817. —See Pages 8-9
Republic Services CNG ‘It’s the right thing to do,’ company says of CNG. And the fuel is far cheaper than diesel. —Page 6
Mansfield Energy North Carolina’s Waste Industries is a client. Mansfield promotes ‘CNG Express’ for fleets not quite ready to invest in natural gas fueling infrastructure. —Page 7
Bauer Repositions Itself Compressor specialist offers enhanced CNG fueling packages, including a new, water-cooled, unit dubbed C52. —Page 12
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Crane Carrier’s BAE Hybrid Electric Crane Carrier (Booth 1517) is conducting working trials around the country of an LET2 truck with a heavy-duty parallel hybrid electric drivetrain from BAE Systems. The truck first was tested with Los Angeles-area carters, before going to Seattle this summer and elsewhere in the U.S. The real-world refuse collectors are “working with us to validate the fuel efficiency claims,” says Crane’s Glenn Pochocki. According to BAE, fuel economy improvements could amount to 30%. The truck has a new parallel version of BAE’s HybriDrive system. The series version powers more than 3,800 transit buses worldwide. BAE uses power-dense Remy motors and an off-the-shelf Caterpillar CX transmission that allows the drive to be installed in a wide range of heavy duty vehicles.
Glenn Pochocki of Crane Carrier’s is in the driver’s seat with Larry Fuehrer and John Hroncich of drive supplier BAE Systems.
The partners are targeting commercial launch in mid-2013 with production commencing in the fall for the 2014 model year.
Natural Gas Trash Trucks Are on a Roll Just how important to the waste industry is natural gas fueling? After a recent informal poll of trash truck manufacturers, “The lowest number we heard was 50% of
2012 production would be natural gas,” says Rich Kolodziej, president of NGVAmerica. “One manufacturer said 70%,” Kolodziej told ShowTimes.
Kolodziej is speaking at the plenary session here this afternoon. See Page 10 for further detail about NGVAmerica’s natural gas vehicles outreach activities.
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Clean Truck-Relevant Collection Technology Innovation Sessions If you want to learn more about compressed natural gas – CNG – as a fuel for collection trucks and other vehicles, you might want to check out these Collection Technology Innovations sessions here at WasteCon 2012.
Tuesday Plenary Session 2:00pm - 3:30pm Collection Technology Innovations (CTI) Showcase Plenary Session US DOE’s Vehicle Technologies Program What Refuse Fleet Managers Should Know Dennis Smith, technology deployment manager and Clean Cities director, U.S. Deptartment of Energy Converting to CNG in Light of New Natural Gas Supplies in the U.S. and Canada Richard Kolodziej, president, NGVAmerica
Thursday 12:00pm - 1:30pm CTI Showcase Technical Session Using CNG in Refuse Vehicles - Real World Experience Robin Ennis, chief, collection section, Montgomery County, Md. Dekalb County LFG to CNG Project Billy Malone, assistant director, Dekalb County, Ga. BioCNG as a Fuel for Refuse Fleets Christopher Voell, Cornerstone Environmental 2:00pm - 3:00pm Energy Conservation Innovations for Collection Vehicles Waterless Engine Coolants Mike Tourville, Marketing Manager, Evans Cooling Systems, Inc. Field Testing of HRB Systems by NYC Department of Sanitation Rocco DiRico, NYC Department of Sanitation, New York City
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Questar Fueling Looks Beyond Utah Target markets include the refuse sector as the Salt Lake City-based Questar utility has established Questar Fueling as a non-regulated entity that’s looking to help establish a natural gas vehicle fueling infrastructure across America. The firm is making its first WasteCon showing at Booth 1513. “We’ve been in the corporate offices of several large waste companies,” says business development director Judd Cook. “We’ve been offering to buy up stations and to put up stations as well,” he told ShowTimes. “We have no boundaries,” says Carl Galbraith, general manager of the new business unit. He says that the new Questar Fueling has ample resources from its parent utility to establish itself
Ace Disposal is a Questar Gas customer in Salt Lake City.
in the natural gas vehicle fueling business. “We really aren’t constrained by capital for projects that make economic sense,” Galbraith says. “The board has said, ‘Go out and get the business.’” As a start, “We would like to put in ten to 12 significant stations over the next 12 months.” ANGI Energy has been tapped as a key equipment supplier. Questar Fueling’s initial emphasis is on compressed natural gas for medium to heavy duty vehicles, with liquefied natural gas an option as well. The firm wants to provide fleets or partners like convenience stores or existing gasoline stations with turnkey CNG (and/or LNG) installations, which it would operate and maintain. Questar will buy and sell the gas at these new stations, or let the station owners handle that aspect. The new stations may be public or private. “We offer both public fueling and terminal fueling,” Galbraith says. Questar Gas currently has 29 public-access fueling stations in Utah, most of them colocated with such companies as
Questar Fueling has already begun its beyond-Utah expansion, with CNG outlets in Evanston and in Rock Springs, Wyoming.
Chevron, Phillips 66, and 7-Eleven. As for history, it almost couldn’t be longer. Parent Questar converted 25 vehicles to CNG in 1981 and during the ’80s helped Ford and GM test NGVs. By 1989 Questar had converted 100 vehicles of its own to CNG, and was involved in the establishment of FuelMaker. “We felt very strongly,” Galbraith says now, “that this market was here to stay.”
Sauk Trail Hills Biomethane This Month Watch for Clean Energy Fuels (Booth 1002 and page 13) to step up the promotion of CERF, its Clean Energy Renewable Fuels unit, when its project with Republic Services at the Sauk Trail Hills landfill in Canton, Mich. starts producing pipelinequality natural gas – biomethane – later this month. CERF is already marketing various blends of biomethane as RNG10 (10%) and RBG20, all the way up to RNG100, which is 100% renewable. The price premium is about 10¢ per diesel gallon equivalent for each 10% of biomethane, reckons Clean Energy business development manager Shaunt Hartounian. The molecules from Michigan will offset pipeline gas fueling Republic Services (Booth 835 and page 6) trucks in California – a process known as “wheeling.” The Clean EnergyRepublic Services project was supported by Cornerstone Environmental (Booth 1526) , which provided site design and permitting services to Canton Renewables, a CERF subsidiary. Cornerstone’s Christopher Voell, eastern 4
sales manager, will discuss BioCNG as a Fuel for Refuse Fleets at a WasteCon 2012 Collection Technology Innovations session beginning noon Thursday. Waste Management (Booth 1201) continues to produce enough fuel for some 300 natural gas garbage trucks at the Altamont Landfill in Livermore, Calif., east of San Francisco. The facility was dedicated in November 2009. More Waste Management on page 14.
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Biomethane Progress Continues Better methods of processing – such as presorting organics or compostables making for a cheaper-to-process feed – can considerably improve the economics of biomethane. That’s especially true for operators with limited landfill access, says Ken Beaver, director of innovation for the Environmental Solutions Group, with affiliates including Heil (CNG-integrated refuse truck bodies) and Marathon, which is supplying hardware to Zero Waste Energy (Booth 1451) for anaerobic digestion using organic waste. If the cost of trucking waste hundreds of miles can be eliminated, he says, biomethane makes more sense.
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Republic Services: The Case for CNG Arizona-based Republic Services (Booth 835) now operates some 1,200 collection trucks on compressed natural gas, citing the compelling case of cheaper fuel and the more philosophical, “It’s the right thing to do.” CNG is cleaner than diesel, and it comes from domestic sources. Republic has successfully operated natural gas vehicles since 1995, says Todd Bruck, senior director of procurement. “We have experienced steady growth in the installed base,” he says. “Conversion to NGVs has been driven primarily by the West region” (see table). High daily fuel consumption making for large savings potential, fleets that return to base each evening, and overnight idle times allowing slow fueling, and hence lower cost for infrastructure are among the factors that make garbage collection trucks standout candidates for CNG. Emissions of nitrous oxides are reduced by 85% and greenhouse gases by 23%, Bruck says, citing figures from Southern California’s South Coast Air Quality Management District, and there are operational advantages: “Drivers love it. It’s quiet and it does not smell,” he says. There are caveats, too. A switch to CNG requires a suitable fueling site – “Location, location, location,” says Bruck – with access to adequate gas and power. Shops will likely need upgrading, and there could be permitting and zoning challenges. CNG trucks cost more than diesel trucks, and while the fuel is cheaper, the CNG trucks may prove less fuel efficient. “The best case scenario for CNG station development is six to nine months,” Bruck says. Due
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“The best case scenario for CNG station development is six to nine months.” diligence, selecting a site, securing permits and zoning approvals, engineering and contracting, building a fueling station, upgrading the maintenance shop buying the trucks and taking delivery – all must be planned and timed and executed. “CNG conversion is not a one size fits all
solution,” Bruck cautions. “Depending on site characteristics, CNG may not be a practical solution. Republic added more than 220 CNG vehicles during the first half of 2012, president and CEO Donald Slager told analysts on July 26. “At our current rate of conversion, we plan to have more than 3,100 trucks nationwide running on natural gas and other alternative fuels by the end of 2015,” the company says. Republic Services is going ahead with partner and supplier Clean Energy Fuels (Booth 1002) with a biomethane project at the Sauk Hills landfill in Michigan, from which fuel injected into the pipeline grid will be “wheeled” to California to fuel Republic trucks at Clean Energy CNG stations (see page 4). Slow-fill CNG fueling.
Most of Republic’s CNG vehicles are in the West.
This is why! Natural gas is increasingly cheaper than diesel.
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Mansfield Energy’s for Waste Industries USA “Blue Flame, Blue Skies,” said Raleigh, N.C.based Waste Industries USA as it announced the opening of the largest, privately held compressed natural gas station in Durham this past May. The Durham Branch station supports North Carolina’s largest fleet of CNG refuse trucks, Waste Industries said. It was built by the Mansfield Gas Equipment Systems unit of Mansfield Energy (Booth 915). The facility has 31 CNG filling points for an initial 19 trucks and one service vehicle. “As part of our annual review of our carbon footprint and sustainability in 2011, we concluded that CNG had become a viable longterm, low-cost alternative to diesel fuel,” said Waste Industries CEO Ven Poole. “We committed to begin conversion to CNG and decided to start with one of our largest branches. “This will be one of several conversions we will complete in the coming years,” Poole said. The Durham Branch CNG station is fruit of “a partnership of services” provided by Mansfield Energy and the Gastonia, N.C.-based PSNC Energy utility. Mansfield provided construction design, engineering and project management services for the station. PSNC will provide “reliable natural gas service as well as the related infrastructure necessary to operate the Durham CNG fleet,” says Waste Industries.
Republic Revs Up Recycling Efforts Republic Services (Booth 835) last month opened “the largest recycling operation in the world… setting a new standard for the recycling industry” in Milpitas, Calif. Multi-stream material processing equipment at the Newby Island Resource Recovery Park can handle up to 110 tons of variegated material per hour. “The facility will process all of the commercial waste generated by businesses in San Jose,” Republic says. Republic celebrated its modernized single-stream recycling facility in Southern California in February, and in April it opened a single-stream processing facility in Jacksonville, Fla., increasing capacity by 90,000 tons per year. In May, Republic said it was investing $19 million to upgrade two recycling centers in St. Louis.
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Mansfield Energy’s CNG Express For fleets less decided about CNG, or for any number of reasons not ready to make a wholesale switch, Mansfield is offering its new CNG Express portable fueler, which can fuel four trucks at a time with 15 diesel gallon equivalents per hour. “The issue is that as a fleet is renewed on a normal schedule, there may only be a few new trucks deployed annually to each location,” says Mansfield sales and marketing VP Mario Pirraglia. “With only a few new CNG trucks, implementing a large fixed investment in a CNG fueling system can be difficult to justify. “Also, without the local option of a retail CNG station in most areas, fleet operators are often stuck in the dilemma of wanting to get started with their first CNG trucks but having no way to fuel them.” CNG Express is a portable unit that can be deployed with almost no set-up costs. It is available for rent, lease or purchase. CC 1/3 Page Day 3_CC 1/3 Page Day 3 7/13/12 1:13 PM Page 1
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More Parker Autocar RunWise E3s Watch for more sales of Autocar E3 hydraulic hybrid refuse trucks as Parker Hannifin, supplier of the vehicle’s RunWise hydraulic hybrid drivetrain, reports average fuel savings of more 43% – with 99% uptime – validated behind more than a year of testing in south Florida. “We have six that have been running for more than 15 months,” Danny Diaz of Miami-Dade County said earlier this year. “They’ve exceeded our expectations.” Miami-Dade has a U.S. EPA Emerging Technology grant which it expects to offset the incremental cost of further vehicles.
“Importantly, maintenance has been reduced on the brakes which have yet to require replacement and are anticipated to last up to eight times longer than on the conventional fleet...” How many is the county buying? “A conservative number would be about 15 trucks,” Diaz says. According to Parker, the Miami-Dade E3s burn some 36 gallons of fuel per day compared with other vehicles in the fleet which use 63 gallons. Brake energy recovery for the RunWise
hydraulic system is 71%, as compared with just 21% for a hybrid electric, Parker’s Tom DeCoster said at the Green Truck Summit in Indianapolis. Municipalities in Texas, North Carolina, Florida and Indiana have placed orders, Parker says. Austin, for example, has ordered four of the hydraulic hybrids. Trucks are being prepared for Manteca, Calif. too. Also operating pre-production RunWise E3s in Florida are the cities of Hialeah and Miami. According to Parker, Miami has purchased five additional Autocar E3s “after operating one truck on city routes during the past year and witnessing close to 50% fuel savings.” The City of Seymour, Ind. has taken delivery of a single RunWise E3 truck, applying a grant through DoE Clean Cities to offset the incremental cost of about $120,000, according to Seymour public works director Dick Wilde. The total cost of the vehicle, with Labrie sideloader body, is about $445,000, Wilde says. A test vehicle in Seymour showed a fuel savings of about 50%, he says. The Seymour vehicle is being shown by Autocar at Booth 817 here. The Town of Cary, N.C. took delivery of a Parker RunWise-Autocar E3 earlier this year too.
Operators have reported positive driving experiences and increased route productivity too, Parker says. “The hybrid is faster, more dependable, experiences less noise in the cab and has not encountered any problems,” Miami operator Scotty Rodgers said in a Parker’s announcement. “The truck moves very smoothly from stop to stop allowing me to get through my route more quickly.” Parker says it is expanding its Miami-based service network as well. “The service team has helped the fleets answer any questions they might have about the system while recording and validating the performance of the trucks,” the company says. “Key measures include reduced fuel consumption, improved route efficiency, and reduced carbon emissions. “Importantly, maintenance has been reduced on the brakes which have yet to require replacement and are anticipated to last up to eight times longer than on the conventional fleet also reducing airborne brake dust particulates.”
Montgomery County Embraces CNG Just outside Washington’s famous Beltway, Montgomery County has completed a transition to all natural gas vehicles for garbage collection, having begun in 2010 to require its contractors to use CNG trucks. Carters were given free reign on their equipment buys with one major caveat: “The only thing we told them was that they had to be powered by compressed natural gas,” says country collection 8
section chief Robin Ennis. The result is that approximately 125 CNG trucks are now in operation by three Maryland haulers: Unity Disposal and Recy- Columbia, Md.-based Ecology Services is one of three contractors operating CNG vehicles for Montgomery County, cling of Laurel, Ecology Services of Colum- north of Washington. bia, and Potomac Disposal, of Gaithersburg. Each is building its own CNG fueling facility, with its transition to CNG in a WasteCon 2012 Ennis says. Collection Technology Innovations session here She’ll detail Montgomery County’s experience starting noon Thursday.
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Autocar E3 with RunWise drive for the City of Seymour
The City of Manteca, Calif. is to take delivery later this year of two new Autocar E3 refuse trucks with RunWise hydraulic hybrid drivetrains from Parker Hannifin. The Autocar ACX64-based vehicles are the first Autocar-Parker hydraulic hybrids for California. They will have Labrie Atomizer sideloader bodies, also believed to be a first for the type. Manteca is paying $409,000 each for the trucks, reflecting a price premium of about $125,000 over a straight ACX64. Manteca is getting $250,000 from the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District (Valley Air), as well as California Air Resources Board HVIP (Hybrid Vehicle Incentive Program) support. The extra money will finance in-service monitoring by El Dorado Hills, Calif.-based infoWedge to quantify the trucks’ improved fuel efficiency and hence emission reductions (a base diesel will likewise be monitored), with an eye to formal validation of the series hydraulic hybrid technology. “infoWedge will characterize the drive cycle;
monitor a 30-day demonstration of the hybrid truck; monitor and report emissions testing; and monitor long-term (6 months) demonstration to evaluate usage patterns, fuel consumptions, and maintenance needs,” Valley Air says. “Successful implementation of this project will show the ability to reduce emissions
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through drive reduced fuel use in the medium heavy-duty diesel truck off-road category. The reduced diesel fuel use also reduces greenhouse gas emissions and lowers overall, long-term operating costs for end users,” states an agency summary. Valley Air expects improvements in efficiency and commensurate emission reductions of up to 45%. Autocar is at Booth 817 and Labrie is at Booth 1629.
hydraulic hybrid drive by Parker Hannifin. “We’re going to compare the three different technologies in both emissions and fuel economy,” says Paul Soderstrom of Santa Cruz. Operations will commence next year. All three will have Automizer brand automated split sideloader bodies by Labrie (Booth 1629). The Labrie bodies are installed at the Central Valley Truck Center branch in Paso Robles, Calif. Autocar is showing an E3 with Parker Hannifin RunWise drive at Booth 817.
City of Santa Cruz to Test Autocar Trio Straight Diesel, CNG, Parker Hannifin Hydraulic Hybrid to be Compared The City of Santa Cruz, Calif. will test three different Autocar trucks to see how compressed natural gas and a hydraulic hybrid drive compare with straight diesel. Santa Cruz has ordered three Autocar trucks: the latest Xpeditor model fueled by diesel, another fueled by natural gas, and the third an E3 variant (diesel-fueled) with the RunWise heavy duty series
Trials of a Parker Hannifin RunWise series hydraulic hybrid-powered Autocar E3 in Santa Cruz, Calif. convinced city officials to buy straight diesel and a CNGfueled truck too, and compare the emissions and fuel efficiency performance of the three. All will have Automizer brand automated side loaders by Labrie.
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More Mack Hybrids For New York City Both Parallel Electric by Volvo-Mack and Bosch Rexroth Hydraulic Hybrids Following a trial of a single hybrid electric Mack refuse truck, the New York City Department of Sanitation has taken delivery of five more. They are TerraPro low-entry vehicles with parallel hybrid electric drivetrains developed in league with parent Volvo but “optimized,” according to Mack Trucks marketing VP John Walsh, “for the specific requirements of Mack customers.” The trucks have 325-horsepower Mack MP7 diesel engines – standard for the TerraPro model – and a 630-volt, liquid-cooled lithium ion battery unit Mack refers to as an ESS, for energy storage system.
“We anticipate fuel efficiency will be improved by about 30% compared with vehicles powered solely by a diesel engine.” —Mack Trucks marketing VP John Walsh
“We continue to seek technologies designed to improve the fuel efficiency of our heavy-duty refuse fleet,” says Spiro Kattan, supervisor of mechanics with the department.
“We anticipate fuel efficiency will be improved by about 30% compared with vehicles powered solely by a diesel engine,” says Walsh. He also conforms that Mack will be shipMack TerraPro with HRB hydraulic hybrid drive by Bosch Rexroth. ping hydraulic hybrid vehicles to New York too – 14 trucks with the HRB driveline by report for 2011, New York City operates 2,023 Bosch Rexroth. collection trucks handling some 12,000 tons “For the past ten to 15 years, we focused on of refuse per day, 365 salt spreaders, and 435 mitigating poor air quality,” says Kattan. “Today street sweepers. we are focused on reducing our carbon footTwo WasteCon 2012 presentations will cover print.” He says that his agency has been using fuels savings at New York City Sanitation, both B5 biodiesel since 2007, and that compressed at a Collection Technology Innovations sesnatural gas remains of interest. For CNG, how- sion starting at 2pm Thursday. The Sanitation ever, “infrastructure is one of our biggest chal- Department’s Rocco DiRico will discuss field lenges,” as the department has no fewer than testing of trucks with the Bosch Rexroth HRB 59 different refuse truck yards accommodating hydraulic hybrid driveline. Mike Tourville of more than 2,000 trucks. Evans Cooling Systems (Booth 1511) will discuss “We’re a de-centralized operation,” Kattan waterless engine cooling using a proprietary told Fleets & Fuels. “We need fueling where Evans blend of glycols and soluble additives in we exist.” lieu of standard antifreeze. Tests have shown fuel According to his department’s annual savings of better than 5%.
The ‘Compelling Case’ for NGVs The Clean Vehicle Education Foundation, a close affiliate of NGVAmerica – the national natural gas vehicles trade association, will hold the next in its series of comprehensive Compelling Case for NGVs workshops in Tulsa on September 19. The gathering will be hosted by the Tulsa Area and Central Oklahoma Clean Cities organizations. The CVEF sessions cover: • Why We’re Here: Economic, environmental and national energy security market drivers prompting the move to compressed natural gas (CNG)- and liquefied natural gas (LNG)powered vehicles; • NGVs 101: Overview of natural gas properties and NGV basics; • Best Bets: Which fleets and vehicle applications are the best candidates for successful NGV programs and why; 10
• Next Steps: Tips on how you can implement a successful NGV program. If you can’t get to Tulsa, NGVAmerica president Rich Kolodziej • Wheels: Available light-, will discuss Converting medium- and heavy-duty NGVs and the sales-service to CNG in Light of New channels that support them; Natural Gas Supplies in • Fill’er Up: Fuel station the U.S. and Canada at the design, development, owner2:00pm WasteCon plenary ship and operations options for session today (Tuesday). fleets of all sizes; C V E F, Stephe • OPM (“Other People’s Yborra, 301-829-2520; Money”): Identifying and syborra@cleanvehicle.org; securing available tax incenwww.cleanvehicle.org tives and grants that further Tulsa Area Clean Cities, Meredith Webimprove NGV economics; b e r, 918-579-9434; • Been There - Done That: Rich Kolodziej, NGVAmerica m w e b b er@incog.org; NGV fleet operators share experiences and tips; tulsacleancities.com • Dollars and “Sense”: A review of NGV proCentral Oklahoma Clean Cities, Yvonne gram economics including how to calculate fuel Anderson, 405-234-2264; yanderson@acogok. costs, simple payback and life-cycle savings; and org; www.okcleancities.org
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SWANA’s Collection Technology Innovations Showcase
SWANA’s Inaugural Collection Technology Innovations (CTI) Showcase focuses on technology and service innovations - such as alternative fuels, regenerative braking systems and bi-weekly recyclables collection - that are currently transforming the solid waste industry. The Showcase features dedicated technical sessions, and various vendors throughout the Exhibit Hall. CTI Technical Session Schedule: Tuesday, August 14 2:00pm – 3:30pm | Maryland C Plenary Session: Converting to CNG in Light of New Natural Gas Supplies in the U.S. and Canada 4:00pm – 5:30pm | Maryland C Technical Session: Reducing Costs and Improving Services in Waste and Recyclables Collection Thursday, August 16 12:00pm – 1:30pm | National Harbor 12 Technical Session: CNG as a Vehicular Fuel for Refuse 2:00pm – 3:00pm | National Harbor 12 Technical Session: Energy Conservation Innovations for Collection Vehicles
Don’t miss these CTI vendors in the Exhibit Hall: Evans Cooling Systems, Inc. Booth 1511
Parker Hannifin Corp., FNS Division Booth 1612
Questar Fueling Booth 1513
WasteRunner Booth 1610
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A Reborn Bauer for CNG Fueling Norfolk, Va.-based Bauer Compressors is placing a renewed emphasis on the burgeoning natural gas vehicles field – three months ago the firm effectively re-launched its line of CNG compressor packages at ACT Expo in Southern California. Bauer’s emphasis at WasteCon is the liquid-cooled (and hence more durable) high-capacity C52 – sometimes designated BK52, for parent Bauer Kompressoren, of Munich, Germany. The C52 can handle up to 700 cubic feet per minute of fuel. Bauer (Booth 901) is developing standardized package designs for compressed natural gas fueling stations for supporting light, medium and heavy-duty NGVs. Under new Bauer Compressors president Tony Bayat, the firm recognized that the every-job-acustom-job policy needed a re-do. Now, “Customers can purchase a compressor package to satisfy their current fueling requirements and as time goes on and their fleet grows another compressor package can be purchased and added to the existing station easily.”
A nationwide dealer network, says business development director Paula Hebert, will “offer a turnkey package to our customers.” Bauer boasts a line of compressors rated for 30,000 hours of continuous operation with lifecycle support of up to 40 years. They are manufactured in Germany, ranging in capacity from just 9 standard cubic feet per minute to the 700-cfm C52 – water-cooled line in the higher ranges most likely suitable for refuse trucks. Packages are assembled in Virginia. Bauer’s Germany and U.S. facilities are ISO9001-certfied. There are more than 1,400 Bauer compressor installations in operation worldwide, the company says. Paula Hebert is a veteran of FuelMaker.
Omnitek for CNG Refuse Trucks Southern California Firm Is Converting Mack 12-Liter Engines San Marcos, Calif.-based Omnitek Engineering this summer reported an agreement “with one of the nation’s leading refuse collection companies” to convert 21 diesel refuse trucks to compressed natural gas under an Experimental Permit issued by the California Air Resources Board. Omnitek’s natural gas upfit for 12-liter Mack engines is to be tested on 21 refuse trucks. The pilot program “is intended to provide empirical data and accelerate certification by the California Air Resources Board and the Environmental Protection Agency,” Omnitek says. “Converting diesel engines to operate on natural gas offers a significant return on investment, with much lower fuel costs and cleaner combustion. Conversions under this program have already commenced and we look forward to certification and working with this industry leader in refuse collection to ramp up conversions on a much larger scale,”
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said Omnitek president and Werner Funk. The trucks have 12-liter Mack engines, Funk says. The new conversions will apply to E7 and derivative engines, such as the AI 300, he said. They are full conversions to spark-ignition, dedicated-CNG operation, says Ed Agostinelli of Omnitek’s Seraph Energy affiliate in Pennsylvania, which is working on both Mack and Navistar International DT 466 conversions. Funk’s not naming his client, but noted in the release “this customer’s nationwide commitment to convert all of its more than 18,000 refuse collection trucks to operate on natural gas through a multi-year program comprised of diesel engine conversions and the purchase of new natural gas trucks.” “The value proposition of Omnitek’s conversion technology is particularly appealing to fleet operators since diesel engines have an estimated life span of more than 20 years, and conversions can be completed during regularly scheduled engine overhauls at a cost significantly less than the purchase of new natural gas trucks,” Funk said.
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Clean Energy Fuels Likes Waste Sector Trucks Using CNG Autocar operator Choice Environmental is a Clean Energy customer in Florida.
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“Solid waste fleets represent one of the major markets that is benefiting significantly as the country shifts increasingly away from expensive imported oil,” says Seal Beach, 1Calif.-based 7/30/12 7:00 PMClean Energy Fuels, a company perhaps best known for its founder, T. Boone Pickens.
“Waste haulers have a wide range of CNG truck makes and models to choose from,” Clean Energy (Booth 1002) says, “any of which can be configured as roll-offs, front, side, or rear loaders.” Clean Energy says it “reliably fuels thousands of natural gas solid waste trucks every day across America, and the numbers are steadily growing.” Clean Energy’s total for natural gas gallon equivalents shipped in the first quarter was 23% higher than the first quarter of 2011. Clean Energy, which builds natural gas fueling stations too, late last year reported a contract to provide maintenance and repair services for compressed natural gas fueling stations operated by Waste Management (Booth 1201). And in April Clean Energy disclosed a partnership with Longwood, Fla.-based Waste Pro USA for strategic fueling locations to support the $100 million CNG fleet commitment announced by Waste Pro in October – starting by building, operating and maintaining a time-fill CNG fueling station on Waste Pro property in Fort Pierce. The station is to open in the third quarter, and Waste Pro will start with 150 heavy-duty waste collection and recycling trucks there. Waste Pro has more than 2,400 employees and 1,400 trucks, and 70 operating locations in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, North Carolina, Louisiana and Mississippi, Clean Energy says, “and maintains more than 140 exclusive municipal contracts and franchises.” Clean Energy is building a biomethane facility with another major customer, Republic Services (Booth 835) at the Sauk Hills Trail landfill in Canton, Mich. (see page 4). Twitter @ShowTimesAFV • www.ShowTimesDaily.com • Convention & Trade Show News • August 14, 2012
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Waste Management Coast to Coast Waste Management continues to save money and reduce pollution by operating natural gas trucks. Its initiatives range from production of its own liquefied natural gas – some 13,000 gallons per day, sufficient for 300 heavy-duty vehicles – at the Altamont Landfill east of San Francisco, to the first public-access compressed natural gas fueling station in Camden, N.J. east of Philadelphia, which is opened last year in league with PetroCard. Waste Management has found that CNG works better than LNG for its collection operations, so as LNG trucks are phased out, stations that formerly dispensed the cryogenic fuel are being converted to LCNG operation, with vaporization hardware allowing for onsite production of the compressed variant. Waste Management is at Booth 1201. The Waste ManagementLinde LNG facility at the Altamont Landfill east of San Francisco.
Jim Pryor, area fleet manager for Waste Management of New Jersey, shows how it’s done at fast-fill station in Camden.
Emterra Girds for CNG Crane Carrier Trucks ‘Largest Cold Weather CNG Refuse Fleet in the World’ Emterra is getting ready for some five dozen compressed natural gas-fueled Crane Carrier LET2 garbage trucks in Winnipeg in October. It will be Canada’s largest CNG refuse fleet and “the largest scale cold-weather CNG refuse fleet in the world,” the company says. What’s more, says Emterra business development manager Paulina Leung, it was Emterra’s idea. “The city did not mandate a green fleet,” Leung told Fleets & Fuels. “We as private industry proposed to provide a green fleet. “We’re blazing the trail because we see the 14
economic and environmental value of it, and we’re taking CNG to places it hasn’t been before.” Leung says that Emterra committed to compressed natural gas despite the lack of government incentives in Manitoba. “It’s 100% financed by us,” she says. “That’s unique in our business.” The Crane LET2s for Winnipeg will have 8.9-liter ISL G engines from Cummins Westport. They will have Heil bodies a mix of PT 1000 rear-loading mechanisms (with Crane four-seat crew cabs), and Heil Rapid Rail side-loaders.
Emterra reports a five- to seven-year contract from the City of Winnipeg to collect residential, multi-family, and small business recyclables, garbage, yard waste and bulky items, with service to commence October 1.
“It’s 100% financed by us. That’s unique in our business.” Clean Energy Fuels (Booth 1002) is to provide a pipeline-fed time-fill fueling facility for Emterra’s new CNG fleet. Crane Carrier is at Booth 1517.
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