CORN COB TANK ALLOWS AUTOMAKERS STANDARD DESIGN OPPORTUNITIES FOR NATURAL GAS VEHICLES
March 1st, 2007
BY MONICA DOBIERESEARCHERS from the University of Missouri-Columbia and the Midwest Research Institute and Kansas City have developed an alternative fuel technology that will allow for natural gas tanks in all vehicles to match standard gasoline tank storage and efficiency while paving the way for cleaner car usage throughout the US.Project leader Peter Pfeifer and colleagues have successfully shrunk the size of vehicle natural gas tanks - which are often large and unwieldy - by storing natural gas at low pressure in carbon briquettes made from corn cobs after ...
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