{"id":280407,"date":"2019-07-05T06:27:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T06:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=280407"},"modified":"2019-07-05T06:27:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T06:27:55","slug":"one-up-on-cng-delhi-readies-for-hydrogen-mix-in-50-buses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/one-up-on-cng-delhi-readies-for-hydrogen-mix-in-50-buses\/","title":{"rendered":"One up on CNG? Delhi readies for hydrogen mix in 50 buses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Nearly two decades ago, public buses, autos and taxis in Delhi had to switch to a cleaner fuel \u2014 from diesel to CNG \u2014 following a Supreme Court order. Once again, it is a direction by the apex court that is going to introduce a better fuel \u2014 Hydrogen-enriched CNG (HCNG) \u2014 in the capital.<br \/>\nStarting November this year, 50 buses under the cluster scheme will start using HCNG as part of a pilot project. On Thursday, Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), which has developed the technology to produce HCNG, and Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL) laid the foundation stone of a four-tonne-per-day, compact reformer-based production plant at the Rajghat-1 bus depot of Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC).<br \/>\nFollowing the apex court directive last July, IOCL and IGL have collaborated to put up this first semi-commercial plant for conducting a study on the use of HCNG in 50 BS-IV-compliant CNG-run buses of Anthony Road Transport Ltd, a cluster scheme concessionaire. The plant, which will be ready by October, will be commissioned in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Nearly two decades ago, public buses, autos and taxis in Delhi had to switch to a cleaner fuel \u2014 from diesel to CNG \u2014 following a Supreme Court order. Once again, it is a direction by the apex court that is going to introduce a better fuel \u2014 Hydrogen-enriched CNG (HCNG) \u2014 in the capital. Starting November this year, 50 buses under the cluster scheme will start using HCNG as part of a pilot project. On Thursday, Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), which has developed the technology to produce HCNG, and Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL) laid the foundation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}