General (challenges for the future)

•Slow down climate change by reducing CO2- emissions.

•Kyoto protocol will affect future shipping. IMO works on CO2-index.

•Improve environment by reducing NOx and SOxemissions.

•IMO will reduce emission levels for NOX and SOx (tier2 /3)

•Find solutions for reduced availability of liquid fossil fuels

•IEA predicts restriction of markets in 2015 and serious shortfalls in 2050.

CAPT RNLN (E) Marcel Hendriks NL DMO Head Marine Engineering

REDUCING NOX EMISSIONS ON THE ROAD

FOREWORD AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Transport Ministers noted the conclusions and recommendations of this report at the meeting of the Council of the ECMT in Dublin on 17-18 May 2006, and asked the Secretariat to transmit the report to the UN/ECE with a request to expedite deliberations on improved vehicle certification tests for NOx emissions for adoption world-wide. This was duly done. The ECMT is grateful to Heinz Steven of the RWTÜV Institute for Vehicle Technology in Germany for the analysis presented in this paper. The report was prepared by the ECMT Group on Transport and the Environment in co-operation with the OECD Environment Policy Committee’s Working Group on Transport.

Technologiesymposium„Zukunftsweisende Antriebskonzepte“

Prof. Dr. Leopold Mikulic
Leiter Programm-Management und Entwicklung PKW-Motoren und
Triebstrang, Mercedes-Benz Cars Entwicklung

26.11.2008 - Saarbrücken

Automotive

grade of world’s most widely used nitrogen fertilizer used to meet new  US environmental regulations to cut air pollution  Urea tanks will be standard equipment for most new diesel trucks, buses, cars, and sport utility vehicles (SUVs) manufactured in the United States after Jan. 1, 2010. An automotive grade of urea will be injected into the vehicles’ exhaust stream to “scrub” nitrogen oxide (NOx) from the diesel exhaust. NOx, a major air pollutant, contributes to smog, which causes asthma and respiratory and heart diseases. The system, urea SCR or “urea-based selective catalytic reduction,” is the only technology available that can remove enough NOx from diesel exhaust to comply with strict new limits imposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), says Glenn Kedzie, Environmental Counsel for the American Trucking Associations.

Public release date: 10-Nov-2008
Contact: Dr. Thomas Hargrove

THE STEF–TFE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

2006 was a year rich in events which were significant for our Group’s development, and yet the steering of our operations was made complex by fluctuating business patterns, which were compounded by a lack of vehicles. 2007 was no less rich in events destined to shape STEF-TFE’s future. Our regular, sustained business growth allowed us to adjust our operations very closely, and ultimately to post an operational profit and net income in line with the increase in consolidated revenues. We can therefore quite legitimately declare 2007 to have been a good vintage. However the economic environment in France and Europe was by no means favourable, with a major financial crisis, very high fuel prices, and food consumption still lagging behind overall consumption. All this merely underlines the quality of the profitable growth which the STEF-TFE Group managed to achieve, and which is mainly the result of the daily efforts exerted in order to optimize our operations.
as of the Board Meeting held on 26 March 2008

Praktische Erfahrungen im Umgang mit AdBlue bei der Freiburger Verkehrs AG (VAG)

Vortrag beim KTBB am 01. 04. 2008 in Genf
Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Ruff Betriebsleiter der Freiburger Verkehrs AG

VW Passat BlueMotionTechnologies

Entro la prossima primavera la Volkswagen introdurrà sul mercato tre nuove versioni della Passat estremamente economiche e pulite: la seconda generazione della Passat BlueMotion, la Passat BlueTDI e la Passat TSI EcoFuel. Volkswagen presenta queste tre Passat come primi esempi concreti di una nuova filosofia caratterizzante, definita “BlueMotionTechnologies”, marchio che riguarderà tutte le tecnologie e i prodotti pronti o quasi pronti per la produzione in serie, in grado di ridurre in modo significativo il consumo di carburante e le emissioni di CO2. BlueMotionTechnologies riunisce sotto il suo “ombrello” soluzioni quali il nuovo sistema start/stop e il dispositivo per il recupero di energia, l’SCR-Kat altamente innovativo e il catalizzatore ad accumulo di NOx (già impiegato negli USA con successo) la trazione elettrica e i sistemi ibridi, nonché sistemi di alimentazione oculati, quali il nuovo TSI EcoFuel.

mercoledì 11 febbraio 2009

RTA

The new fleet of buses is fitted with Euro IV engines which are designed to be friendly to the environment and will not operate efficiently unless run by a top quality & eco-friendly fuel. They are also coupled with Selective Catalytic Reduction technology in the exhausts system, using the blue urea (AdBlue®additive); which is a non-toxic material not added to diesel (as mistakenly thought otherwise by some people) but added to a special tank in the engine. It acts as a reagent to measure and process nitrogen oxides (NOx) in the exhaust emissions to transform them into water & nitrogen (H2O + N2); which are obviously non toxic to the environment.

12 February 2009

AdBlue:

Тази сутрин в завода на “Приста ойл” в Русе в присъствието на зам. - областния управител Добрин Данев, зам. - кмета Александър Неделчев, директора на РИОСВ - Русе Дауд Ибрям, Милен Бойчев - изп. директор на “Приста ойл” ЕАД, инж. Валентин Трифонов - директор “Производство, инженеринг и инвестиции” на “Приста ойл” и др. гости Пламен Бобоков - председател на УС на “Приста ойл” АД и зам. - министърът на околната среда и водите Чавдар Георгиев прерязаха лентата и откриха първото за България съоръжение за производство на AdBlue. Марсел де Конт - изп. директор на GreenChem по традиция отвори специална бутилка шампанско и вдигна наздравица за успеха на начинанието. Отец Иван от църквата “Свето Възнесение” отслужи водосвет и благослови присъстващите.

13 Февруари 2009 10:42:46

VDI Nachrichten:

Wolfsburg (13.2.2009) : Automobil: Europas größter Autokonzern reduziert weiter den Kraftstoffverbrauch seiner Fahrzeuge. VW bündelt die umweltfreundlichsten Techniken in dem Paket “BlueMotion Technologies”, das die Marke dieser Tage international präsentiert. Als Erstes sind Passat-Modelle erhältlich, die 4,9 l bzw. 5,2 l Diesel je 100 km verbrauchen und die Abgasnorm EU5 bzw. EU6 erfüllen. Der bivalente Passat 1.4 TSI EcoFuel (110 kW) mit 7-Gang-Doppelkupplungsgetriebe unterbietet im Erdgasbetrieb mit 1 g/km sogar die CO2-Grenze von 120 g/km.