Dual Fuel Engine
Dual Fuel or DF Engines are the kind of engines that could run on a mixture of diesel fuel and gas fuel or it can work on diesel fuel alone. Duel Fuel engines are not able to work on gas alone since they do not have an ignition system, nor do they have any spark plugs.
As diesel is not a pure gas, and it is not a pure diesel designed engine, it has some disadvantages in the department of Methane slippage as well as fuel efficiency.. Like for instance, the fuel efficiency could be 5% to 8% less than in a comparable lean-burn, spark-ignited engine at 100 percent load. It could even be greater on lower loads.
Lift Truck Classification and Fuel Sources
There are certain recycling materials handling applications which could prove very difficult for lift trucks. For instance, scrap metal is among these issues. To be able to successfully handle items like this requires using the correct type of equipment for the task.
There are 7 major lift truck classes, including power sources like liquid propane gas, hydrogen fuel cell, gasoline, diesel and electric. The power source is linked to some of these specific classes. The main power sources for forklifts comprise Gasoline, Battery, Diesel, Fuel Cell and Propane.
The most popular overall are electric powered trucks, mostly in Class I, II and class III forklifts. In Classes IV and V, internal combustion trucks are more common. The most popular electric power source is the lead-acid battery. Amongst internal combustion trucks, around more than 90 percent are propane powered.
The most common power source for lift trucks is battery. Battery powered models make up roughly 60 percent of the new forklifts sold within the USA. Their benefits comprise: quiet operation, less maintenance requirements, the ability to be utilized indoors and outside with no harmful emissions.