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El Toro Export Orders 15 Heavy-Duty Kenworth T800 LNG Trucks
6 October 2008
El Toro Export, LLC of El Centro, California, a processor, marketer, and exporter of various agricultural commodities, has ordered 15 heavy-duty Kenworth T800 liquefied natural gas (LNG) trucks, featuring Westport’s ISX G engine with High Pressure Direct Injection (HPDI) technology. (Earlier post.) The trucks will be deployed in the Imperial Valley area of Southern California.
The seed, grain, and hay processing company will use the trucks as part of their 30-truck fleet, hauling the commodities for distribution in the US and for export to Asia and elsewhere.
Our export business can benefit from cost saving opportunities by running LNG trucks. Combining solid product performance in the Kenworth T800 trucks with a lower fuel cost in comparison to diesel provides a unique advantage to El Toro. In addition to fuel savings, we are able to access the San Pedro Ports without added drayage fees.
—Bill Plourd, President of El Toro Export
El Toro is the third export business in Southern California to purchase heavy-duty LNG trucks with the Westport LNG engine and system.
The Westport LNG system is 2007 EPA and CARB certified to 0.8 g/bhp-hr NOx and 0.01 g/bhp-hr PM.
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I will presume that these vehicles can also run on diesel alone. Many years ago I decided that the Philips NV Stirling refrigerators would be very good to make LNG out of stranded natural gas where there were no gas pipelines and keep it cool, and I visited Eindhoven to investigate. Philips no longer is in the stirling business but their technology is available from a small split off company.
It is not clear that making LNG is more cost effective than CNG for these vehicles, but it is actually clear that Methane, the actual major part of LNG, can be made much more efficiently from Corn, sugar or other crops if there was none available frome pipes. If these vehicles and tanks and engines were also designed to handle propane, they would be slightly more useful. A cheap way of igniting LNG upon injection without diesel would not be hard to invent, and it would save even more on diesel costs. ..HG..
Posted by: Henry Gibson | Oct 6, 2008 7:36:50 PM
