18.04.2010
PELMAG COOPERATES IN THE NATIONAL ENERGY PLAN OF THE GOVERNMENT OF BOLIVIA
In the town of Tarija, the first two modern vehicles with gasoline engines converted to computerized use og NGV have made their appearence.
This allows vehicles to keep anyway their original power.
The companies which run this project are PELMAG s.a. from Argentina, and Comec Sur from Tarija: the Director of the former, Mr Ernesto Pellarolo, reported about the introduction of this system, so called 5th generation kits, in several countries.
The main features of this system is to keep the power of the engine, while normally gasoline engines converted to CNG may lose up to 10% of their power, something which is not happening at all with 5th generation kits.
One more and important fact is the saving in fuel.
The Argentinean company carried on these first installations and furthermore trained local technicians to run this modern conversion, in which the traditional mixer is no longer used, and the system directly applies on the engine admission multiple.
The engine runs on NGV like on gasoline, and furthermore is managed by a computerized control unit, of the Italian company AEB, which are working for 20 years on this kind of conversions.
Remarking that this 5th generation system is only for gasoline engines, Mr Pellarolo pointed out that any vehicle converted to NGV can start or stop as quickly as when it runs on gasoline.
The cost of the system is around USD 1250, which makes it accessible to the most, in consideration also of the fact that the vehicle does not to come back to the workshop since the system is managed by a computer.
Pelmag s.a. also carried out some installations in the capital city of La Paz, under the control of YPFB and the Bolivian Transport Federation, and they were tested along a steep hill, out of the highway, in the area of El Alto, showing no loss of power.
The Argentinean company will be one of the suppliers of YPFB for these systems in the government plan to change the energy system in Bolivia.
