<VV> GDI NG Applications Re: methanol vs. ethanol (Humour)

[FrankCB at aol.com]

Scotty,
    The smell is added on purpose by the NG suppliers  so homeowners (and 
others) can detect leaks and evacuate the house before  disaster occurs.  Our 
plant that we built to treat the landfill gas  produced at the Fresh Kills 
Landfill in Staten Island, NY (at that time the  largest landfill in the 
world) purified the gas (natural gas + carbon  dioxide+contaminants) so well 
that the NG company had to ADD BACK an  odorant into it before they could 
incorporate the gas into their NG supply  that went to homeowners.
    Natural gas is an excellent fuel for internal  combustion engines.  The 
problem is that it has to be stored at aroung 2000  psig to be able to get 
a reasonable amount to carry in a vehicle.  But now  that GDI is becoming 
popular, engines are being designed to use gasoline fuel at  2000+ psig, so 
using a natural gas storage tank at 2000 psig could eliminate the  need for an 
expensive high pressure fuel pump that now has to take gasoline at  
atmospheric pressure and pump it up to 2000 psig to feed to the GDI  injectors.
    A number of municipal garbage trucks  have ALREADY been converted from 
diesel fuel to run on natural gas which  costs around HALF of what 
equivalent diesel fuel costs (and we don't have to  import it).   At the end of the 
day the trucks all return to a central  location where the can be refueled 
with fresh NG.  The cost of conversion  doesn't take long to pay for itself 
with the cheaper fuel.
    Frank "likes NG" Burkhard
    Boonton, NJ
 
 
In a message dated 10/19/2012 10:56:18 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
ScottyGrover at aol.com writes:

In a  containers behind the driver's seat--if you can stand the smell.

Scotty  from Hollyweird


In a message dated 10/18/2012 10:23:19 P.M. Pacific  Daylight Time,  
ronh at owt.com writes:

So where  do we put  the natural gas in our  Corvairs?
RonH