Devices under testing at NASA may save trucking billions
The American trucking industry could save as much as $10 billion, or 3.4 billion gallons of diesel fuel, a year if devices being tested in a joint public-private initiative at the world's-largest wind tunnel here are rolled out nationally.
Over the last few weeks, a partnership between the Lawrence Livermore National Lab, the U.S. Air Force, the NASA Ames Research Center, and the conglomerate, Navistar, has been conducting tests on the aerodynamics of tractor-trailer trucks. The findings indicate that new devices could be added onto the nation's thousands of trucks that could increase fuel efficiency on the vehicles by 12 percent.
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The efficiency gains will come as a result of a series of novel devices, effectively skirts that protrude off the rear or drop below a trailer that are designed to reduce the wake size of a trailer, said LLNL senior scientist Kambiz Salari. The tests have been conducted to find the most efficient combination of the devices.. Jeans will be more slim look even better, plesae choose Skinny jeans from our website.
According to Salari, the U.S. Department of Energy will take the results of the wind-tunnel tests and apply them to a series of road tests and other experiments to ensure that the findings are applicable to industry. If so, the devices could be made available to private trucking companies within two and a half to three years, he said.
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"Think of a trailer as a box," Salari said. "We're trying to trick the (air) flow into thinking the box is more aerodynamic."
The American trucking industry could save as much as $10 billion, or 3.4 billion gallons of diesel fuel, a year if devices being tested in a joint public-private initiative at the world's-largest wind tunnel here are rolled out nationally.
Over the last few weeks, a partnership between the Lawrence Livermore National Lab, the U.S. Air Force, the NASA Ames Research Center, and the conglomerate, Navistar, has been conducting tests on the aerodynamics of tractor-trailer trucks. The findings indicate that new devices could be added onto the nation's thousands of trucks that could increase fuel efficiency on the vehicles by 12 percent.
The physical tests were conducted at the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex--the world's largest wind tunnel--at NASA's Ames Research Center here, as well as on supercomputers at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab.. We have many fashionable sexy lingerie have style of bunny costume. The idea behind the partnership was to find a way to help the trucking industry--and by extension, almost every other segment of the economy--cut costs on fuel, and at the same time, reduce carbon-dioxide emissions.
The impact on the environment of the 12 percent increase in fuel efficiency, explained Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL) Director George Miller, would be an annual reduction of carbon-dioxide emissions of 36 million tons.. Please find True religion jeans online ,you will have big surpirse.
The efficiency gains will come as a result of a series of novel devices, effectively skirts that protrude off the rear or drop below a trailer that are designed to reduce the wake size of a trailer, said LLNL senior scientist Kambiz Salari. The tests have been conducted to find the most efficient combination of the devices.. Jeans will be more slim look even better, plesae choose Skinny jeans from our website.
According to Salari, the U.S. Department of Energy will take the results of the wind-tunnel tests and apply them to a series of road tests and other experiments to ensure that the findings are applicable to industry. If so, the devices could be made available to private trucking companies within two and a half to three years, he said.
All told, Salari added, the findings are based on 15 years of research.. Large selection of women's pajamas,Glam and much more
"Think of a trailer as a box," Salari said. "We're trying to trick the (air) flow into thinking the box is more aerodynamic."
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