Safety is a critical element in the design, installation and operation of any appliance. This element has been taken into serious consideration when the Bi-Fuel System was being designed.
The following safety factors have been built into the system:
Gas is supplied into the engine at atmospheric pressure thereby reducing the possibility of over supply. Gas concentration the engine combustion chamber is less than 3% by volume.
This means that the possibility of explosion in the combustion chamber is almost non-existent. The air/gas mixture is non-explosive, non-flammable until compressed in the combustion chamber.
CNG has an ignition temperature of above 600 degrees C which is approximately four times higher than diesel. This means that the danger of an explosion, deflagration or a fire is much lower than that of diesel.
CNG is lighter than air. Therefore if a leak were to occur anywhere along the system line before entering the combustion chamber, the gas will simply rise up and quickly dissipate into the atmosphere.
Furthermore, CNG gas cylinders are designed and built with special materials with the highest safety specifications to withstand even explosion by dynamite.
Automatic shut down of gas supply if fault is detected by the electronic sensors supplied with the system.
CNG/LNG on-board fuel systems have excellent safety history world-wide.