Since this yr, Wacker Neuson has been providing prospects the choice to replenish all diesel-driven machines with the choice HVO gas.
With fuels made out of hydrotreated vegetable oils (HVO), combustion engines might be operated with an virtually impartial carbon footprint. The gas is manufactured from renewable uncooked supplies and burns with much less emissions. It due to this fact has a greater carbon footprint than fossil fuels. With HVO it’s doable to scale back CO2 emissions by 90% in comparison with diesel operation.
All Wacker Neuson building tools and compact machines with a Stage 5 diesel engine produced from September this yr are accepted to be used with HVO fuels following EN15940. This contains excavators, wheel dumpers, wheel loaders and telehandlers, in addition to vibratory plates, rammers, and rollers.
“We take our accountability to offer an environmentally-friendly and secure product vary very critically,” says Alexander Greschner, chief gross sales officer of the Wacker Neuson Group. “With the choice to make use of HVO as a substitute of fossil fuels, our prospects can enhance their carbon footprint with out nice effort and so they can work in a extra future-oriented method. With this, we’re providing our prospects extra flexibility, and as a producer we’re contributing to extra sustainable building websites.”
Nearly all Wacker Neuson compact machines might be initially fueled ex works with HVO from September this yr. Because of this, Wacker Neuson is taking a constant step in the direction of a extra sustainable future and can also be encouraging prospects to take this path.
As there are not any important variations within the chemical properties between the fuels HVO and diesel, the engine doesn’t necessitate any variations. There are additionally no further necessities by way of storage or use compared with fossil fuels. Whereas diesel solely has a shelf-life of roughly one yr, HVO fuels have a shelf-life of a number of years.
Even throughout use it’s evident that HVO gas doesn’t hurt the engine’s service life, upkeep intervals, or emission conduct. The client doesn’t need to resolve upon one gas, however can function the identical engine with both pure HVO, an HVO-diesel combination, or proceed to make use of customary diesel.
For greater than ten years, Wacker Neuson has been working with electrically powered compact machines and building tools, at all times specializing in the very best resolution for the client with these zero emission merchandise.
With the zero emission collection, together with excavators, dumpers, wheel loaders and telehandlers, vibratory plates, rammers, and an inside vibrator system for concrete consolidation, it’s doable to function a whole building website with none direct exhaust emissions.
Wacker Neuson plans to double its vary of zero emission machines inside the efficiency class as much as 40 kW or as much as 5 tons by 2025; all hand-held building tools might be on provide as battery-powered options by 2030.
