ITT focuses on alternative fuels
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President Barack Obama’s goal to reduce U.S. dependance on foreign oil by developing alternative fuels and environmentally friendly technologies has gotten the attention of executives at ITT Corp.
The White Plains-based industrial company said that it has renewed its emphasis on developing advanced fuel technologies in response to projections of steadily rising petrouelm prices in the future.
“The need for greater energy efficiency is one that’s only going to grow more acute in the years to come,” said Jim Dauw, president of ITT’s control technologies business. “The current uncertainty of the global economy has resulted in wildly fluctuating energy prices, but long-term trends indicate these costs are definitely going to rise.”
ITT said one example of the company’s innovation in the fuel technologies field is a busines known as ITT Conoflow. The St. George, S.C.-based unit supplies bus, truck and auto manufacturers with compressed natural gas regulators. Vehicles can use the technology to operate exclusively on natural gas. Or the vehicles can use natural gas in combination with petroleum-based fuels.
An Australian company recently installed ITT’s compressed natural gas systems in fleets of refuse trucks and Mack concrete trucks, lowering energy costs and emissions of the greenhouse gases widely blamed for global warming. In addition, an Alabama company has used the technoology in redcuing the carbon footprint of mass transit buses.
“Long before energy efficiency was the issue it is today, we were leading the way in this field,” said Steve Piluk, product manager for alternative fuels at ITT Conoflow.
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