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Priyanka Vyas

New Delhi, June 16 The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, with the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) and Indian Oil Corporation, is likely to come out with the technical guidelines to run vehicles with a blend of hydrogen and CNG in the coming two months. This would be based on tests carried out on the existing category of CNG vehicles.

According to the officials involved, the Ministry, which is funding partially the project with Indian Oil dispensing the fuel, has already finished phase I of trial in the research labs. The project which started in September last year is now set to enter the next phase of field trials with the common blend of hydrogen- CNG for three-wheelers, commercial vehicles and cars.

Ministry sources said, “The Government was in discussions with the Petroleum Safety and Explosive Organisation and Ministry of Road Transport to make the running of such vehicles feasible. These organisations have given their guidelines also.”

The project is being carried out using LCV of Ashok Leyland, Tata Motors and Eicher, Bajaj’s three-wheeler, a pick-up vehicle of M&M and a car of Tata Motors.

An official from SIAM said, “Tests have been conducted in the research labs for blending hydrogen with CNG (in) different vehicles. We are expecting that in the next two months we should be able to decide the uniform norms for the H-CNG fuel that would be viable for all vehicles under trial.”

The official said that the target was to blend hydrogen up to 30 per cent in the vehicles. But since the engine compatibility of the vehicles of different companies would vary, the project stakeholders were hoping to finalise the technical feasibility norms in the coming two months.

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