The Association of the German Gas Industry has awarded this\nyear’s Innovation Prize in the “Mobility & Transport” category to\nthe pilot test of a passenger bus that is used at the airport and runs on\nliquid methane. The project has now been honored at a ceremony at the\n“House of Innovation” in Berlin: At Munich Airport, “Gas\nInnovations for the Energy Turnaround” were developed in cooperation with\nthe start-up company “CM Fluids” from Rohrbach. Together with other\npartner companies, the award winners have realized a particularly innovative\ndrive concept for the passenger bus and thus successfully implemented\n“Ideas for sustainable and environmentally conscious mobility of the future”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As part of the highly promising pilot project at Munich\nAirport, a passenger bus originally powered by diesel from the airport’s\nvehicle fleet was converted to a climate-friendly drive system using liquid\nmethane and thus made fit for the future. With the patented drive concept\n“CMF drive” the bus was equipped with a generator-electric drive. The\npassenger bus is powered by a combustion engine and will in future be fueled\nwith regeneratively produced biogas. The energy generated by the engine is\ntemporarily stored in a buffer battery, which in turn supplies the bus’s\nelectric drive axle with electricity. After the successful conversion, the bus\nwill be particularly energy-efficient and even climate-neutral when refueled\nwith biomethane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The advantages of the CMF drive system are particularly\nclear for passenger buses with long operating times or frequent starts and\nstops, such as those used on the apron of Munich Airport: braking energy is\nrecovered and also temporarily stored in the buffer battery. In contrast to\nconventional electric buses, a single tank of fuel can travel up to 800\nkilometers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For the jury of the German gas industry, chaired by Prof.\nDr. Frank Behrendt, head of the Department of Energy Process Engineering and\nConversion Technologies for Renewable Energies at the Technical University of\nBerlin, the joint project makes an important contribution to climate\nprotection: “With the conversion from diesel to biomethane, CM Fluids\noffers a unique solution that is both economically viable and reduces exhaust\nemissions to almost zero. Munich Airport is thus becoming a pioneer in climate\nprotection on the apron”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jost Lammers, CEO of Munich Airport: “We are delighted\nthat our commitment to sustainable airport operations has been honored with the\nGerman gas industry’s Innovation Award. Here, resourceful engineers have\ndeveloped a showcase project that could serve as a blueprint for many municipal\ntransport companies. On the one hand, the conversion of existing vehicles is\neconomical and saves expensive new purchases, and on the other hand, regionally\nproduced biomethane from our surrounding area is consumed directly at the\nairport”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The gradual conversion of the vehicle fleet to renewable\nenergies fits in perfectly with Munich Airport’s climate strategy. If the\nconcept also proves its worth in everyday operations, additional passenger\nbuses will be converted. Munich Airport is working on implementing a wide range\nof technological measures to achieve CO2-neutral operation of the airport by\n2030 at the latest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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