{"id":302320,"date":"2018-09-06T11:26:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T11:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302320"},"modified":"2018-09-06T11:26:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T11:26:38","slug":"delhi-likely-to-get-cleaner-version-of-cng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-likely-to-get-cleaner-version-of-cng\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi likely to get cleaner version of CNG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301389 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/delhi-color-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/delhi-color-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/delhi-color-525x420.jpg 525w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/delhi-color.jpg 543w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/>The National Capital city would soon have a cleaner version of the compressed natural gas (CNG). According to reports the testing for the other alternative- H-CNG (hydrogen-CNG) will begin later this month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Supreme Court (SC) has directed Union government and the Indian Oil Corporation Ltd to opt for hydrogen-CNG as an alternative fuel option, following a report submitted by the Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The EPCA report stated that the use of hydrogen-CNG can reduce the carbon monoxide and other harmful emissions by 70%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">S S V Kumar, director, Indian Oil Corporation, R&amp;D centre, reportedly said, \u201cThere can be a 70% reduction in carbon monoxide and the icing on the cake is that this can give 3 to 4% fuel economy improvement as well. Our studies indicated that there is no reduction in NOx however, but with certain changes, that too can be achieved.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In the long run this new green fuel variant may also lead to a drop in fuel prices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The SC suggested that at as many as 50 buses have to be tested first with H-CNG and it will only be rolled out if the tests are successful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to Indian Oil Corporation officials they will \u201cwork on\u201d the fuel variant after they are allocated a bus depot this month.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Capital city would soon have a cleaner version of the compressed natural gas (CNG). According to reports the testing for the other alternative- H-CNG (hydrogen-CNG) will begin later this month. The Supreme Court (SC) has directed Union government and the Indian Oil Corporation Ltd to opt for hydrogen-CNG as an alternative fuel option, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[2397,429,4798,4799,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302321,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302320\/revisions\/302321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}