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Along a gas pipe
What will the fuel of the future be like? This question puzzles the minds of car manufacturers more and more every day. Analysts pour oil on the flames by predicting shortages of oil. Nevertheless, there is no humankind without the car, and that's why people simply have to experiment with alternative fuel types: hydrogen, fuel elements, ethanol, bio-fuel.
It should be mentioned that the production of alternative fuel is a costly process and it is impossible without governmental support. Moreover, at the moment not a single country can cover all the demand of population in cars by alternative fuel only. Taking this into consideration, more and more manufacturers create car modifications that use methane as fuel. It is especially good as the reserve of this fuel is huge in comparison to that of oil and thus the prices are considerably lower. At the same time this kind of fuel can be generated from, for instance, manure or food processing wastes. The major methane exporter into Europe is Russia.
In the depths of this country there are huge reserves of gas. It is no wonder that through the territory of Russia there has been laid a gas pipeline 20 000 km long. Two desperate adventurers (Rainer Zietlow and Franz Janusiewicz) decided to dive along this pipeline in a VW Caddy which works on methane. By the way, last year Zietlow and Janusiewicz made a trip round the world, the trip lasted for 6 months and it was included into the Guinness book of records.
The current Asian tour had been organized in order to promote cars using clean, cheap and perspective fuel. At the same time the adventurers wanted to test a new technology of gas storage in the real road conditions. It is a common knowledge that in order to feed the engine by methane there must be a number of tanks on board the car (the gas is stored under high pressure). Thus you have to sacrifice the space inside the car and, of course, the carrying capacity of the vehicle decreases. This is the major reason why the transition to alternative fuel is so slow. In order to increase the amount of gas in tanks people used to apply higher pressure which lead to the increasing costs of equipment.
But the progress is not static and the latest inventions in the nano-technology sector enabled BASF engineers to create a unique material that is able to increase the capacity of gas inside a tank by 30%. It goes without saying that gas manufacturers, equipment manufacturers and car engineers follow the “Asian experiment” with great interest and hope. One of the most peculiar moments of the rally is crossing Tibet where the adventurers will have to cross passes higher than 5000 m.
How will the equipment work in the conditions of highlands? The answer to this question will be given in a matter of weeks. It is peculiar that VW Caddy EcoFuel is the first European vehicle that works on CNG that will come to China under own power. After a 10-day trip by land the adventurers will come back to Germany on a boat. VW Caddy EcoFuel has undergone a serious make-ready for the trip. The clearance has been increased by 3 cm. In order to enable the car travel for long distances Caddy was equipped with 9 tanks. It goes without saying that there is a petrol tank in the car, but it will be used only for driving through Tibet (because there are no gas stations in the region). All in all the distance that the car will cross on petrol won’t exceed 800 km.
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