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Royal Van Twist is a family owned business with a history of more than 180 years. 80 years ago the distributorship for Perkins Engines was acquired. Based on the strong core engine Royal Van Twist started the development for gas fuelled engines 40 years ago. This resulted in the approval as Perkins official gas partner in 2014. The current gas engine range goes from 10 to 1200 kilowatt electrical.
During the 40 years of history we developed a great amount of knowledge with a large variety of gasses as Natural gas, Biogas and LPG. The last 10 years we have focused on gasses with a low methane number, mainly for thermal waste recycling processes. During these processes waste as tires, plastics, MDF and even medical waste is heated to high temperatures resulting in products like nafta (raw gasoline), carbon black, active coal and ash. As by-product a waste gas is produced. This is used as fuel for the gas generator providing electricity to the grid). As low methane gasses could cause serious engine damage we have developed our own engine control systems. The systems are tested in our state of art in-house test facility. As hydrogen could be considered as a gas with a low methane number we asked ourselves if it would be possible to use hydrogen as a fuel for our engines. After a positive conclusion from the feasibility study during the first half of 2019 we started the technical design at the end of 2019. The design includes a custom-built hydrogen injection block which is connected to the inlet manifold of the engine. The hydrogen engine was first started in October 2020. The first pre-production engines will be available for trail applications in the first quarter of 2021. Full production will start by the end of 2021.
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