Demo Projects Introduce New Class of Natural Gas Vehicles (Fact Sheet)

Natural gas vehicles (NGV) have attracted more and more attention from policy makers since natural gas is a clean substitute for traditional fossil fuel that is also readily accessible. In some areas such as the state of Texas, vehicles that do not use traditional fossil fuel (e.g., NGVs) are exempt from paying fuel taxes. Government financial incentives have motivated substantial adoption of NGVs. This paper studies NGV adoption behavior in both U.S. and Texas markets to estimate the dynamics of NGV diffusion. This research employs well-known Bass diffusion models applied to NGV adoption, using data from both the U.S. and Texas. Among several interesting results, we find that NGV adoption through an imitation effect appears to be significant for the U.S. NGV market.

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The Innovative Technology of Hydraulic Compression and Boosting for Filling the Vehicles and Storage Systems with Natural Gas and Biomethane

Environmental and Climate Technologies ◽

10.2478/rtuect-2020-0087 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 24 (3) ◽

pp. 80-93

Author(s):

Aleksey Safronov ◽

Julia Guzeyeva ◽

Jevgeniy Begens ◽

Ansis Mezulis

Keyword(s):

Natural Gas ◽

Storage Systems ◽

Ghg Emissions ◽

Transport Sector ◽

Innovative Technology ◽

Emissions Reduction ◽

Gas Network ◽

Natural Gas Network ◽

Natural Gas Vehicles ◽

And Storage

AbstractThe article describes the technology of the “hydraulic piston”, as well as the studies that confirm the viability of this technology, implemented in various devices, designed to compress natural gas (CNG) and biomethane (bio-CNG), to accumulate CNG and bio-CNG, to deliver bio-CNG from the production site to the point of its injection into the natural gas network or to the vehicle fuelling stations to fill the Natural Gas Vehicles (NGV). The article presents prototypes of personal fuelling devices and mobile fuelling systems developed by Hygen Ltd. (Hygen), thereby showing the potential of the technology to contribute in the deployment of alternative fuel infrastructure and into the global GHG emissions reduction, mainly in the transport sector.

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