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On 27 August 2012, on Indian National Highway 17 (now NH 66), at Chala in the Kannur District of India's Kerala State, an accident occurred when an Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) LPG tank truck hit a road lane divider, overturned and exploded in a BLEVE, which resulted in several building fires between 9:30 pm and 11 pm. The accident ...
LPG cylinders in India Liquefied petroleum gas tank on a rural farm. Predominantly in Europe and rural parts of many countries, LPG can provide an alternative to electric heating, heating oil, or kerosene. LPG is most often used in areas that do not have direct access to piped natural gas. In the UK about 200,000 households use LPG for heating.
The Chala LPG tanker disaster was a road transport accident that occurred on August 27, 2012, on Indian National Highway 17 (now NH 66) at Chala in the Kannur District of India's Kerala State. The accident occurred when an Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) LPG road tanker hit a road lane divider, overturned and exploded, starting several ...
BharatBenz HDT 3128 C (heavy-duty truck) Fuso FJ rigid truck at the International Motor Show 2014 in Hanover, Germany. Daimler unveiled a new brand of trucks – BharatBenz [10] – for the Indian market on 17 February 2011. The brand was intended to offer a range of trucks in the 6–49 ton range, with vehicles for applications such as haulage ...
All BharatBenz (17 models) trucks are slated to be up to 9% more expensive but be 10% more fuel efficient than the competition. [12] The Fuso medium and heavy-duty trucks produced in Chennai are also being exported to markets of Africa and Asia, under Daimler's Asia Business Model. BharatBenz crossed 30,000 units sale mark in January 2016.
The first Indane LPG connection was released on 22 October 1965 at Kolkata. Indane serves more than 130 million families through a network of 12,500 distributors. 27% of its customers reside in semi-urban or rural markets and every second LPG cooking gas connection in India is that of Indane. The sales network is backed by 47 Indane area offices.
Oct. 27—COURTDALE — Alexander Nicholas, chief operations officer for Nicholas Trucking, this week said the company's goal is to transition away from diesel and continually add more near-zero ...
The smallest of these trucks usually carry about 3,800 litres (1,000 US gal; 830 imp gal) of LPG under pressure. Typically, LPG tank trucks carry up to 3,499 US gallons (13,250 L; 2,914 imp gal) of product (usually liquid propane), on a 2-axle bobtail truck. 3,500 US gallons and greater requires a 3-axle truck (tank wagon).