NATIONAL rental specialist L Lynch Plant Hire is equipping all of its new articulated dump trucks and dozers with the FuelActive clean fuel delivery system, following on-site trials.
The company predicts it will remove 970 tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere and cut £370,000 in fuel costs from its ADT fleet alone, in a full operating year.
Having been convinced of the uptime benefits on previous installations, L Lynch Plant Hire was keen to verify FuelActive’s fuel economy and sustainability claims, conducting a controlled trial on one of its own earthmoving projects, where five machines were fitted with the FuelActive system and five were not.
“We had 10 identical ADTs, all doing the same route, being loaded by the same machine, at the same weight. That enabled us to be completely fair,” said James Bardon, head of major projects and innovation at L Lynch Plant Hire. “We used OEM telemetry to compare 960 data points over 5,000 operating hours. The machines with the FuelActive system averaged a 3.6% fuel saving. That’s equal to a £9,000 reduction in fuel over a year across the 10 trucks, taking 20 tonnes of CO2 out of the atmosphere.”
Following the trial, Lynch has decided to fit FuelActive across a growing number of machines in the fleet. 50 units have already been installed, with more to follow.
“All new ADTs and dozers will have FuelActive installed before they are sent to site,” said Mr Bardon. “We are also reviewing the installation for excavators and other equipment and expect to install these later this year.”
FuelActive is described as a unique fuel pick-up pipe that can be installed in any fuel tank, across all types of on and off-highway machinery. Whereas a conventional OEM pick-up will take fuel from the bottom of the tank, the FuelActive system uses a floating pick-up, which is said to ensure only the cleanest possible fuel is delivered to the fuel injection system.
