KleenAir Applies for London Taxicab Cleaner Vehicle Program
25 July 2000
KleenAir Applies for London Taxicab Cleaner Vehicle Program
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - KleenAir Systems Inc., with the encouragement of the U.K. Department of the Environment, Transportation and Regions, has applied to participate in the Cleaner Vehicle Programme supervised by the Energy Saving Trust.This program has been set up to help improve emissions levels from older, inner city vehicles, such as buses, taxis, waste disposal and delivery trucks, focusing on the installation of exhaust after-treatment systems such as oxidation catalysts or particulate traps. The specific focus of the initial program is to clean up the famous London taxicab fleet.
The Cleaner Vehicle Programme is a new initiative by the U.K. government and administered by EST. It receives a budget from DETR to carry out an agreed program to help improve inner city vehicle emissions.
For the 2000/2001 financial year $10 million has been budgeted for discretionary funding of vehicle investigations, which have the potential for full commercialization in the short to medium-term. There are approximately 40,000 taxicabs concentrated in London, Leeds/Bradford and the West Midlands.
KleenAir has a unique computer controlled ammonia system, the NOxMaster(TM), which, when injected into the exhaust stream, interacts with NOx produced during combustion. The result converts environmentally hazardous NOx into harmless nitrogen and water.
In addition, the company is testing its system in combination with advanced technologies that dramatically reduce particulates, HC and CO.
The company has a proprietary catalytic converter that it believes meets the requirements of the Cleaner Vehicle Programme at a price competitive with oxidation catalysts, and well below the price of particulate traps. In addition, the company is not aware of any cost-effective combination system that effectively reduces NOx, as well as the other targeted emissions.
