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28May 2010Gas Vehicles ReportClean Power ProjectProject for the conversion of the heavy goods transport by truck to LNG for the abatementof polluting emissions and of the costsAlbertoCastagnaroPresident of theConsortiumCryotrucksThe serious crisis caused by theirrepressible cost of fuel, madeworse by the atmospheric andacoustic pollution, has deeplyaffected the field of forwardingcompanies, who have decided toresolve directly these problems.Italian forwarders, sensitive to thesolution of these problems, havesetup the consortium Cryotrucks(European Cryogenic Gas FuelTransporters Association), whosemembers are: ConfartigianatoTrasporti e Servizi; Fox Energy andCramaro Italia, tarpaulin systems forthe transport and logistic industries;VRV cryogenic tanks ; ResearchCentre for Thermo Machines in Lyon(France)ffor transformation of gasmotors; Cryogas Distribution; Ing.Giovanni Merli Test Centre for thehomologation of cryogenic tooling.The goal of the consortium is tospread all over Europe the use ofmotors and tools necessary for theliquefied cryogenic natural gas forthe Industrial Transport and PublicTransport, with the following tangibleresults:® Save up 50% respect to the costof fuel,® Reduced dangerous emissionsand noise that allow to deliver thegoods directly to towns and drivethrough Countries next to Italywithout polluting and withoutdisturbing.® Feed the Industrial Trucks thatuntil now could not use the naturalgas, due to the weigh tare of thehigh pressure tanks;® Eliminate the weight of the gastanks normally placed on the roofs ofurban buses;® Allow driveability and efficiency asoffered by Diesel powered vehicles® Offer a good autonomy, better fuelquality and great safety, reducingalso costs and refueling time.To achieve this goal, the CryogasConsortium, together with CramaroItalia and the other membercompanies from the ItalianRegionVeneto, have created theproject CLEAN POWER.Scope of the project is to encouragethe conversion of the heavy goodstransport trucks from diesel oil toliquefied natural gas, makingavailable for the transportcompanies, municipal enterprises ofthe metadistric of Veneto, acompletely innovative alternative interms of technology andcombustible, with the goal to:® Dramatically abate the emissionsdangerous for the health andacoustic pollution® Decrease the operating expensesfor fuel and maintenance, withpositive results on the occupancylevel of the operators;® Comply the existing fleets to thefuture anti-polluting standards,extending the lifecycle.The activity we carry out has thespecific objective to prove the utilityof the liquefied natural gas LNG asclean innovative fuel for truck fleetsand public means of transport,through the following work-packageand pilot projects:® Installation, test and performancerating of a series of LNG bi-fuelconversion kit on the existing HGVs(LNG + diesel oil)® Engineering and manufacturing of2 innovative pilot fuel servicestations located within the region,enabled to the distribution of bothtraditional fuels and the newcryogenic natural gas (including theanalysis related to omologations)