After a tender procedure, the Dutch company LIQAL was awarded a contract to build a new LNG refueling station for the Belgian transport company Remitrans. The total concept includes design, production and realization onsite, up to the maintenance and 24/7 service. With the arrival of its own LNG station, Remitrans is continuing to build on reducing CO2 emission in the transport sector.
“By switching the fleet from diesel to LNG fuel, step-by-step, Remitrans improves the local air quality and we reduce the CO2 emission per vehicle by at least 20%. With the purchase of 9 ex-factory Euro-VI Volvo trucks, 15% of our trucks will run on liquefied natural gas this year, next year this will be 30%, with as future target to change the entire fleet,” said Frank Coppens, Logistics Manager at Remitrans. The new trucks will have the same performance, driving characteristics and fuel economy as the diesel variant.
Joost Jansen, Business Development Manager at LIQAL, added: “We are sure that LNG is the alternative for diesel in heavy duty and long haul transportation. Now that there are various truck brands available and more and more transport companies decide to switch to clean and affordable LNG, the demand for refueling stations for this alternative fuel will also increase. Remitrans has selected our recently introduced prefab station, whereby the time to market can be reduced by a few months. Great for the turnaround time of the project and for the wallet of our customers.”
The innovative refueling concept is compact but matches performance and contains all the technical high-quality elements of a fully-fledged LNG station. For example, an advanced online monitoring- and trending system, MID-certified fuel dispenser and LIQAL’s patented micro liquefaction technology which ensures unlimited holding time of LNG in the 70,000-litres storage tank and also ensures that all trucks available on the market can be supplied effectively at desired conditions without the use of liquid nitrogen.
Moreover, civil works such as excavation work can be limited to a minimum and the system arrives assembled and tested onsite, reducing the turnaround time. So, it is expected that the Remitrans LNG station near Ninove will already be in operation in the second half of this year both for its own fleet as for LNG-powered trucks of third parties.
Source: LIQAL
