Coal India has initiated a process to convert all its 2500 diesel dumpers, which consume over four lakh kiloliters of diesel per annum with Liquified Natural Gas kit at a cost of around INR 3,500 crore to reduce its carbon footprint. The company in association with GAIL (India) Limited and BEML Limited has already taken up a pilot project for retrofitting LNG kits in its two 100 tonne dumpers operating at the subsidiary Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd. It has signed an MoU with GAIL and BEML to get this pilot project executed.Once the LNG kit is successfully retrofitted and tested, these dumpers will be able to run on dual fuel systems–both on LNG and Diesel and their operations will be significantly cheaper and cleaner with use of LNG.The main goal of the pilot project is to monitor the replacement rate of diesel with LNG in different load and operating conditions and also to capture the details of any change in characteristics of the dumper including cycle time and engine performance parameters, the executive added.
Coal India has initiated a process to convert all its 2500 diesel dumpers, which consume over four lakh kiloliters of diesel per annum with Liquified Natural Gas kit at a cost of around INR 3,500 crore to reduce its carbon footprint. The company in association with GAIL (India) Limited and BEML Limited has already taken up a pilot project for retrofitting LNG kits in its two 100 tonne dumpers operating at the subsidiary Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd. It has signed an MoU with GAIL and BEML to get this pilot project executed.Once the LNG kit is successfully retrofitted and tested, these dumpers will be able to run on dual fuel systems–both on LNG and Diesel and their operations will be significantly cheaper and cleaner with use of LNG.The main goal of the pilot project is to monitor the replacement rate of diesel with LNG in different load and operating conditions and also to capture the details of any change in characteristics of the dumper including cycle time and engine performance parameters, the executive added.
