Caterpillar natural gas engines are known for their fuel efficiency, lower emissions, and low operating costs. Caterpillar engines provide you with the performance and reliability of diesel engines with the cost savings of natural gas engines.
Caterpillar natural gas engines are used in a variety of applications and consumers are also using caterpillar engines for retrofitting their equipment. Caterpillar natural gas engines feature spark ignition and dynamic gas blending technology for ultimate performance and efficiency.
Dynamic Gas Building: This is a proprietary caterpillar technology that uses gas engine hardware to allow the caterpillar diesel engines to use gas as a fuel instead of diesel. There are several benefits of this technology.
- Fuel costs are reduced because of using 70% gas as fuel instead of diesel.
- The engine is able to continuously able to adjust according to the changes in fuel quality and pressure. It ensures the maximum performance possible.
- The caterpillar gas engines are available today for the oil and gas market.
High Pressure Direct Ignition (HPDI): HPDI ensures that the gas is directly introduced into the combustion chamber of the engine and uses only small amount of diesel as the ignition source.
- This technology has replaced usage of most of the diesel fuel with low-cost natural gas while maintaining the performance of a good-old diesel engine.
- It is mostly used in mining trucks and other mining locomotives.
- It meets the ‘Tier-4 off-highway and rail standards with the use of less after-treatment emission technology.
Benefits of a caterpillar natural gas engine are described here:
- Caterpillar natural gas engines lower the overall cost of operating heavy machinery in any job.
- Natural gas is a clean source of energy and its emissions are relatively much lower than its counterparts like petrol and diesel.
- With natural gas, the engine life increases by a large margin as it causes almost no wear and tear on the internal parts of the engine. Regardless of the high build quality of these engines power sources like diesel cause a certain amount of wear and tear to the engine and that can be reduced to almost nothing with the natural gas engines.
- Natural gas engines are more affordable than the conventional engines and require less maintenance. Using this can cut down the fuel expenses to one-third and that is a significant factor that cannot be ignored.
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