Xperion, the composite people, leading in type IV cylinders

NGVA Europe member xperion is a leading company for development & production of fibre reinforced cylinders (type 4) for storage of CNG, Hydrogen and other gases under the brand of X-STORE.

C.Melchers, which built the world’s largest CNG fueling station in Singapore last year, has begun converting 1,000 Toyota Wish cars to CNG for the taxi operator TransCab, Singapore’s second-largest CNG customer. All vehilces will use xperion Type IV fuel tanks.

Melchers is using Type IV all-composite cylinders from Germany’s xperion, and bi-fuel kits from OMVL, with Emer fueling receptacles. It is the largest-ever conversion of OEM vehicles using Type IV tanks, says Melchers oil and gas manager Gilbert von der Aue. The new Wish cars have 2.0-liter engines, compared with 1.8-liter engines in previous versions. The old CNG conversions have Type I steel tanks (from Brazil’s Cilbras) holding 100 liters of methane, the new ones have 90 and 38-liter cylinders for a total of 128. “The new tanks are a third of the weight of the old tanks, which weighed 110 kilos,” von der Aue says. Single-fill range is about 340 kilometers, or 210 miles, as compared with 270 kilometers for the older vehicles. (CNG pressure in Singapore is 200 bar, or approximately 3,000 psi.)

The xperion X-STORE distribution network includes foreign sales offices and agents in Netherlands, Italy, France, Turkey, Egypt, Canada, Iran, India, China, Thailand, Korea and Singapore.

xperion website: http://xperion.highend-composites.de/