6th Study Days Encounter CLEAN BUSES
First held in 1996, the “Clean Buses� Study Days, organised by ADEME, GART and UTP, will hold its 6th encounter on September 24th and 25th, 2007 in the northern French city of Lille.
This will be an occasion to make a complete assessment of the progress made in the various sectors for buses since 2004: NGV, LPG, diester, diesel with particulate filters and the DeNOx (SCR, EGR) system.
Particular attention will be paid to the new Euro 4 engines, the new sectors and the biofuels, in particular on our visit to the Centre for the Organic Recycling of Fermentable Household Waste which has recently been built to supply Biogas to the buses of the urban area of Lille and the bus garage where the buses refuel.
The LCA (Life Cycle Analysis) of biogas, conducted by ADEME, will be presented with a view to defining the best possible conditions in which to use it.
There will be in-depth presentations of the French and European network experiences in the use of biofuels or hydrogen, in particular with the systems in Stockholm (ethanol and biogas), Helsinki (2nd generation of biofuels: NexBTL) and Munich (hydrogen for internal combustion engines).
The European Biogas Max and Starbus projects will be discussed, in particular the European version of the SIMULIBUS calculator, which enables each system to assess its future (10 years) operating costs through estimates of equipment (PFs) or renewal of the vehicle park and to make economic, energy and environmental comparisons of sectors.
ADEME will also present the outcomes of experiments it has recently carried out with a comparison of the various sectors, enabling systems to make the right choices.
Bus makers and energy suppliers will discuss developments in what’s on offer.
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