Affordable Personal Refuelling Appliance (PRA) for Natural Gas Vehicles using oil-free coaxial compression

Informazioni relative al progetto

NGV - PRA

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: 698422

DOI

10.3030/698422

Progetto chiuso

Data della firma CE 18 Settembre 2015

Data di avvio 1 Ottobre 2015

Data di completamento 31 Marzo 2016

Finanziato da

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Smart, Green And Integrated Transport

Costo totale

€ 71 429,00

Contributo UE

€ 50 000,00

Coordinato da

GASFILL LIMITED
United Kingdom

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - NGV - PRA (Affordable Personal Refuelling Appliance (PRA) for Natural Gas Vehicles using oil-free coaxial compression)

Periodo di rendicontazione: 2015-10-01 al 2016-03-31

Sintesi del contesto e degli obiettivi generali del progetto

With increasing transport levels, the EU objective to cut transport GHGs to 40% of 1990 levels by 2050 (EC Climate Action) must be focussed on significant emissions reductions.

Natural Gas Vehicles (NGVs) using compressed natural gas (CNG) as a fuel are a proven way of helping to achieve this target.

However, NGV ownership in the EU is linked to CNG availability via public CNG fast fill stations, but growth in coverage is slow due to high capital costs

The overall objective of this project was to remove the barrier to NGV ownership in the EU and globally, by developing an affordable personal refuelling appliance (PRA) with an optimised fuelling capability thereby removing the constraint on market growth.
The SME Instrument feasibility study has allowed a wide range of issues to be reviewed, has confirmed the viability of the project and enabled crucial market entry decisions to be made.

Lavoro eseguito dall’inizio del progetto fino alla fine del periodo coperto dalla relazione e principali risultati finora ottenuti

Six EU countries were chosen to evaluate the initial market entry strategy and to identify the NGV market sector that provides adequate paybacks during this initial phase.

This concluded that the entry strategy should focus on the light commercial van market where adequate paybacks can be demonstrated at current cost (2.0m3/h unit). It also showed that increasing the flowrate to 3.5m3/h which is readily achievable would improve the payback period.

Regulatory requirement reviews both in terms of unit design and installation were carried out and an installation manual has been written.

Bill of materials and value engineering impact studies were conducted and projected unit costs in various manufactured batch sizes confirmed. Supply chain development identified the manufacturing route as a contract manufacturing/assembly model. Technology partnering has identified items where further cost savings can be made from engineering development.

Progressi oltre lo stato dell’arte e potenziale impatto previsto (incluso l’impatto socioeconomico e le implicazioni sociali più ampie del progetto fino ad ora)

In terms of socio economic benefits, poor air quality issues now have a much higher public profile and this project would allow NGVs contribute the benefits that they can bring to this issue. Information also shows that using renewable biomethane as the gas source has the ability to provide further socio economic benefits due to a much reduced CO2 footprint.

In conclusion, this feasibility study has provided gasfill with the confidence that an available market not only exists, but that it is penetrable and expandable with the introduction of gasfill’s enabling technology.

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