Obiettivo
The result of this RTD project is a Vapour Recovery system for petrol and diesel dispensers, which can be used on most types of fuel hoses at filling stations all over the world. With this simple device it will be possible to improve the environment at filling stations at a low cost.
The innovative with this new device in comparison to the state of the art is that:
- New Vapour Recovery system (NVRS) vs the State of the Art (SoA);
- NVRS: Tightens vapour up to at least 95% between the nozzle pip and the inlet pipe of the car when filling in petrol or diesel in a car. It is possible to increase it to about 97-98;
- SoA: About 80%. The leak of this 15-20% corresponds to about 1,000 litres of vapour per 24h per dispenser;
- NVRS: No leakage from the breather pipes of the under ground tank;
- SoA: Leakage from the under ground tank;
- NVRS: No splash when filling the petrol;
- SoA: Splashes on the car and the ground;
- NVRS: Fits both petrol and diesel;
- SoA: Does not fit diesel;
- NVRS: Simple design and easy to install;
- SoA: Complex systems with a high percentage of failure;
- NVRS: Fits all normal filling systems;
- SoA: As today's systems are working inside the metering pump there are many different systems.
- NVRS: Is made of materials that have a lifetime - boot up to 3 years - other components up to 5 years.
- SoA: Lifetime is about 1 year.
- NVRS: The cost of installing a vapour recovery system at a filling station with 10 dispensers at 5 metering pumps is about 6,000 Euro. The installation is easy and fast.
- SoA: About the same installation cost but is far more complicated and time consuming to install.
- NVRS: Reduced lifetime cost with about 20-30%.
- SoA : High maintenance costs.
When you fill up petrol or other liquid fuel at a filling station into the tank of a car or another vehicle, the added fuel in fluid form presses the same volume in aerosol form out of the tank. The fuel compound which is pressed out contains about 1.6 per mil hydrocarbons, i.e. one m3 vapour contains 1.6 litre s petrol. This means that at a filling station with a yearly volume of about I 000 m3 there will be pollutions corresponding to about 1 600 litres petrol, if there is not vapour recovery system on the dispenser. Despite that there is legislation in several European countries CEN 221 standard in progress regu lating the requirements to equip filling stations with vapour recovery system, only about 20 % of the fuel dispensers in Europe are equipped with vapour recov ery systems. In other parts of the world the use is even less. Today the vapour recovery systems consist of an extra pipe in the dispenser system nozzle, ho se and dispenser that recovers the vapour from the tank. This is a complex sy stem with high costs and often malfunctions resulting in that the oil companies are unwilling to equip their dispensers with vapour recovery systems. The need for improved simplified vapour recovery technique is very large all over the w orld. The SME proposers co operate to develop a Stage II of vapour recovery device with the following main objectives: environmental close to 100 % of hydrocarbons in the vapour will be recycled to the car tank. industrial it will be applicable on most types of dispensers and in accordance with the CEN 2 21. economic the cost price incl. Iife time cost will be about 20 30 % com pared to the State of the Art. But in this developing project we have not be en able to achieve acceptable solutions as the problems are too complex. Theref ore we as SMEs with limited know how must engage external experts, who will by RTD try to solve the problem in co operation with us. The overall objective of the RTD is to increase the knowledge in this field and solve the technical prob lems, which impede this on going developing project. The main problems are: to develop a function device that tighten between the nozzle pipe and the inl et pipe of the car tank when filling up. to develop a filtration/separation method which can filtrate close to 100 % of the hydrocarbons Timetable: RTD project 24 months. Exploitation of the results and developing of the product 6 + 3 months. The potential market is immense only in Western Europe there are approx. 1 600 000 fuel hoses. The core group of Proposers will produce abo ut 60 000 units as from 2002. The device will be patented and licences will be sold. The results of the RTDs will have a great number of application possi bilities for SMEs in many sectors. In the short run the project will create abo ut 30 new employment in the core group. In the long run the new vapour recover device will improve the environment and create a great number of new employment s at SMEs in the EC. Dissemination will be done to other SMEs through articles, IRCs, branch organisations, Focal Points and Internet.
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