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John Dennehy |
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V.P. of Marketing and Communications
Espar Heater Systems
(800) 387-4800
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Mr. Dennehy has been V.P. of Marketing and Communications with Espar for 9 years. He has played an integral part in working with several levels of government agencies in both the U.S. and Canada to bring awareness to the challenges of idling, anti-idling technologies and the reduction of green house gases. Mr. Dennehy will entertain questions on anti-idling technologies, state regulations and state/province initiatives regarding rebates/incentives and also idling laws and fines within each state.
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I run a Chemical operation that moves low flash point solvents. I am looking for a solution that eliminates the potential of an ignition source coming from an onboard heater that could get to residual fumes from the tank unit. We are concerned about the potential to have the ignition source be a heater such as Espar. Is anyone in our industry running these units in this application….are they employing special safeguards?
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Two solutions:
Shut off the heater when filling the solvent tanks. If you fear the operator could forget you could put a relay / outside switch that would kick the heater off if a number of parameters were applied. i.e. opening the gas tank cap.
Additionally you could put a spark arrestor on the exhaust, this eliminates the already very slim chance of an ash. Of course you would have to periodically clean this. One last thought; if the heater was serviced regularly you would reduce chances even further.
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Hi Mr. Dennehy, I write a trucking blog appearing on several sites, soon my own. I am hoping I can ask you a few questions for an upcoming blog and podcast. I am also working on distr. for a radio prog. I very much believe in alternative power sources instaed of truck idling and I feel on board generators are the way to go, not pull in hook-ups. Would you be interested in a future interview with me for my blog “On the Road” with the original florida kid. I appear on truck.net and truckertotrucker.com as well as truckerreport.com, afew other blog sites too. I am setting up my own site and networking this week and next week and, in an on-going situation I plan to include this aspect, an everyday cost effective aspect of the drivers life, in my weekly blog. I am also a huge proponent of mobile internet for laptops for drivers too. My blog content varies from week to week although I do have regular segemnts, I am adding more each week. this is one issue I intend to push weekly because I really believe in it. Campers have had them for years. Thanks.
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Daniel, I would be interested in helping you out with your blog. You can write to me directly at jdennehy@espar.com and we can work out the details.
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Hi
I am a GRAD student at UNH working on research in reducing freight CO2 emissions (truck & rail) in New England. We have estimated the CO2 emissions per ton-mile?
We have estimated the CO2 per ton-mile but need a reference to validate and to back up. Any suggestion? Thank you
Elizabeth Mello
emello@unh.edu
WE are using the US Census Commodity Flow Survey with the latest data 2002. We cannot find state data after that for truck & rail and may need to wait until Dec 08 for the next survey.
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Hi Elizabeth, please see the underlying links that may be able to assist you in securing stats and refs.
http://www.epa.gov/smartway/idling.htm
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/
http://oee.nrcan.gc.ca/transportation/personal/idling.cfm
http://oee.nrcan.gc.ca/transportation/fleetsmart.cfm
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Where are the Espar dealers in Central MN? What is cost of system, I’m planning to use deep cycle batteries instead of a diesel apu. Does California’s proposed 2010 rules with the exhaust filters out date most apu’s with diesel engines?
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We have 6 dealers in the state of MN. Please follow this link to our dealer web site.
http://www.espar.com/html/service/dealers/dealers_us_veh.html
Interstate Power Systems and Themro King are two of your choices.
Average cost is in around $1,400-1,500, contact your dealer for firm pricing.
Deep cycle batteries will work.
APU's are going to have to comply to CARB standards, starting in Jan 01/2008, there are a number of ways they will do that, one of them is the addtion of a Particulate filter.
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