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Discovering the<br />
benefits of fossil<br />
fuel alternatives<br />
toll Liquids by its very nature is focussed<br />
on fuel, both as a cartage operator and as a<br />
significant consumer. Consequently we are<br />
often approached to participate in projects<br />
targeting either the use of alternate fuels or<br />
different ways to minimise our carbon footprint.<br />
it was in this capacity that Peter Pace, national Fleet manager<br />
at <strong>Toll</strong> liquids was approached by Richard Baxter, managing<br />
Director of GasTech; an r&D business based in Victoria.<br />
GasTech has been developing a natural gas fuelled engine that<br />
boasted some very impressive performance figures.<br />
GasTech has completed a significant amount of r&D in lpG,<br />
dual fuel engines, and inducted gas before finally arriving at the<br />
design for an engine that can run solely on either Compressed<br />
or liquefied natural Gas (CnG or lnG).<br />
GasTech and its engineering staff has also spent considerable<br />
time setting up the only privately owned engine dynamometer<br />
testing facility for heavy engines in australia. since then,<br />
GasTech has been busy monitoring and evaluating on-road<br />
versions of the CnG engines as well as running the lnG version<br />
on the test bed where they have further refined their solution<br />
to produce excellent returns.<br />
it was on the back of these performance figures that <strong>Toll</strong><br />
liquids agreed to be part of a trial using a prime mover that<br />
operated solely on lnG. ><br />
<strong>TOLL</strong> SpECIALISED AnD DOMESTIC FREIGHT<br />
Another initiAtive<br />
by SmArter Green<br />
June–auGusT 2011<br />
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