With environmental concerns and limited natural resources, there is a need for cleaner sources of energy in the transportation sector. Renewable natural gas (RNG) is being considered as a potential fuel for heavy-duty applications due to its…
Concerns about environmental degradation and finite natural resources necessitate cleaner sources of energy for use in the transportation sector. In Canada, natural gas is currently being appraised as a potential alternative fuel for use in vehicles…
1 Scope This document provides requirements for operation of vehicles that use compressed natural gas (CNG) as a fuel for propulsion, covering various aspects of NGV workshops including activities, risk management, planning, personnel, layout,…
Existing technological trends in using of various types of gas motor fuel (GMF) on transport require more thorough control of the technical condition of motor vehicles running on GMF (compressed natural gas and compressed hydrogen) and infrastructure…
An analysis of the literature on the use of natural gas shows a significant increase in the number of natural gas-powered vehicles, both in road and sea transport, and diesel-fueled vehicles adapted to run on natural gas. Due to its combustion…
With environmental concerns and limited natural resources, there is a need for cleaner sources of energy in the transportation sector. Renewable natural gas (RNG) is being considered as a potential fuel for heavy-duty applications due to its…
We assessed freshwater consumption, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and air emissions of using compressed and liquefied natural gas (NG) as transportation fuels by three heavy-duty NG vehicles (NGV) types from a wells-to-wheels (WTW) perspective. We…
Abstract Increasing urbanization and industrialization have led to a phenomenal growth in transportation demand worldwide, coupled with a concentration of vehicles in metropolitan cities. With regard to increasingly stringent emission legislation…
Concerns about environmental degradation and finite natural resources necessitate cleaner sources of energy for use in the transportation sector. In Canada, natural gas (NG) is currently being appraised as a potential alternative fuel for use in…
Biogas consisting primarily of methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) can be upgraded to a transportation fuel referred to as renewable natural gas (RNG) by removing CO2 and other impurities. RNG has energy content comparable to fossil compressed…
Areas located at or near natural gas (NG) well or storage sites can use NG to partially or totally replace the diesel fuel used to power equipment or for local transportation. This study investigated a dual-fuel diesel-NG engine operating at low load…
Abundant supply, low prices, and low carbon content may result in an increased use of natural gas (NG) as an alternative transportation fuel. Assessments of the associated climate benefits are sensitive to the climate metric and time horizon selected…
In the last decade, significant advances have facilitated the deployment of sensors. This paper defines the utility of a sensor as the ability of the system to provide intelligence. This comes from collecting data, extracting information (e.g. from…
Compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) are included in the group of promoted transport fuel alternatives for traditional fossil fuels in Europe. Both CNG and LPG fueled vehicles are believed to have low particle number and…
The objectives of this study were the following: (1) to investigate the correlations between data collected through Internet of Thing (IOT) and unintentional behavior of drivers (2) to create the models based on machine learning techniques to…
The increasing penetration of electric vehicles (EVs) and natural gas-fueled vehicles (NGVs) has introduced higher potentials for strengthening the coordination of transportation, natural gas, and electric networks. This article proposes the concept…
Within the context of the energy transition, there are several alternatives under study for the gradual replacement of diesel fuel based urban transport vehicles. This paper proposes an answer to the following question: Which bus technology and…
We evaluate the NOx and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions trends of the Heavy-Duty (HD) transportation sector in California’s South Coast region, under four future scenarios with varying deployment trends of near-zero-emission vehicles and zero-emission…
Following the tendency of sustainable development, compressed natural gas as an alternative fuel has been expanded applied in the transportation sector these years. Although several studies on the life cycle are quite comprehensive for passenger…
Development of natural gas as a fuel for light-duty vehicles will require innovative methods of onboard storage. Gas storage within adsorbents can permit operation at moderate pressures, which allows for more flexibility in tank design and reduces…
Adsorbed natural gas is a recent and viable fuel source to replace gasoline or diesel in cars, trucks and other passenger vehicles. Previously, 5 types of tanks have been developed that can be used for storage and transportation of compressed natural…
With a number of pathways presented for the decarbonization of the transportation sector, alternative types of technologies such as hydrogen and natural gas vehicles may be beneficial to different categories of vehicle for reducing transportation"s…
The LNG Blue Corridors FP7 project's focus is to demonstrate the use of LNG as truck fuel and to define a roadmap for future large-scale development of the transportation market. This report is written with the objective of defining a recommended…
This paper presents an approach to optimise the liquefied natural gas (LNG) transportation network. As the Chinese government put forward the coal to gas heating convention project in its Jing-Jin-Yi area, demands of LNG increased dramatically in…
Given its abundance and clean combustion, natural gas (NG) is one of the leading sources of energy to meet present demands. However, the storage and transportation of NG remain challenging. Besides the commonly used NG storage methods such as…
Liquefied natural gas is emerging as viable and potentially sustainable transportation fuel with intrinsic economic and environmental benefits. Liquefied natural gas possesses thermomechanical exergy amounting to 1 MJ kg-1 which is currently wasted…
Natural gas has been promoted rapidly recent years to substitute traditional vehicle fuels. However, methane leakages in the natural gas supply chains make it difficult to ascertain whether it can reduce greenhouse gas emissions when used as a…
Technical, economic, social and environmental conditions are turning natural gas into a feasible solution for sustainable transportation systems in the State of São Paulo (Brazil). Blue Corridors are routes that aim to enable the use of liquefied…
Consumers and organizations worldwide are searching for low-carbon alternatives to conventional gasoline and diesel vehicles to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and their impact on the environment. Natural gas as an alternative transportation…
In much of the world, compressed natural gas (CNG) has been a long recognized alternative transportation fuel due to the fact that it is domestic, one of the cleanest burning and most affordable alternative transportation fuel available – directly…
Natural gas has been proposed as a possible “bridge” fuel to eventual use of hydrogen in zero emission fuel cell vehicles. This literature review explores whether the natural gas system might help enable a transition to longer-term use of hydrogen in…
Overgeneration of wind energy conversion systems represents a grid issue, limiting the growth of renewable energy utilization. Alternative fuels utilization such as liquefied natural gas is emerging as a new market with a big potential in freight…
In comparison to legacy engine technology, natural gas vehicles have become cleaner and more efficient. Improved fueling infrastructure has supported the growth of natural gas vehicles in the heavy-duty sector. The heavy-duty transportation industry…
Fugitive methane emissions from the liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply chain have revealed uncertainty in the overall greenhouse gas emissions reduction associated with the use of LNG in heavy-duty vehicles and marine shipping. Methane is the main…
Vehicle emissions are affected by factors such as vehicle type, fuel quality, and engine repair. Therefore, mobile source profiles should be established based on a characteristic fleet for a specific region. This study characterised the chemical…
In vehicles fueled with compressed natural gas, a variation in the fuel composition can have non-negligible effects on their performance, as well as on their emissions. The present work aimed to provide more insight on this crucial aspect by…
Engines fuelled with Liquefied natural gas (LNG) have been widely used in the heavy-duty vehicles. However, they suffer from poor combustion performance and flame instability under fuel-lean condition. In this work, experiments were performed on a…
Areas located at or near natural gas (NG) well or storage sites can use NG to partially or totally replace the diesel fuel used to power equipment or for local transportation. This study investigated a dual-fuel diesel-NG engine operating at low load…
An improved current-modulated cavity ring-down spectroscopy(CRDS) approach is proposed and the experimental results reported in this article. The step-wise fine current modulation is imposed on the laser driving direct current (DC) component and…
This paper presents an approach to optimise the liquefied natural gas (LNG) transportation network. As the Chinese government put forward the coal to gas heating convention project in its Jing-Jin-Yi area, demands of LNG increased dramatically in…
Natural gas has been proposed as a possible “bridge” fuel to eventual use of hydrogen in zero emission fuel cell vehicles. This literature review explores whether the natural gas system might help enable a transition to longer-term use of hydrogen in…
Existing technological trends in using of various types of gas motor fuel (GMF) on transport require more thorough control of the technical condition of motor vehicles running on GMF (compressed natural gas and compressed hydrogen) and infrastructure…
The increasing penetration of electric vehicles (EVs) and natural gas-fueled vehicles (NGVs) has introduced higher potentials for strengthening the coordination of transportation, natural gas, and electric networks. This article proposes the concept…
The objectives of this study were the following: (1) to investigate the correlations between data collected through Internet of Thing (IOT) and unintentional behavior of drivers (2) to create the models based on machine learning techniques to…
The increasing penetration of electric vehicles (EVs) and natural gas-fueled vehicles (NGVs) has introduced higher potentials for strengthening the coordination of transportation, natural gas, and electric networks. This article proposes the concept…
Within the context of the energy transition, there are several alternatives under study for the gradual replacement of diesel fuel based urban transport vehicles. This paper proposes an answer to the following question: Which bus technology and…
The present work investigates the economic feasibility of ecological vehicles. The comparison has been developed between traditional vehicles, gasoline and diesel fueled, and green vehicles powered by electric, hybrid or natural gas motors. Nowadays,…
In this paper, different low-carbon pathways of power-to-gas for sustainable transportation are compared from technical, economical, and environmental point of view. Surplus power in Ontario can be converted into hydrogen or synthetic methane for…
With a number of pathways presented for the decarbonization of the transportation sector, alternative types of technologies such as hydrogen and natural gas vehicles may be beneficial to different categories of vehicle for reducing transportation"s…
In this paper, different low-carbon pathways of power-to-gas for sustainable transportation are compared from technical, economical, and environmental point of view. Surplus power in Ontario can be converted into hydrogen or synthetic methane for…