In recent years, Uzbekistan has adopted a policy of sustainable development and, accordingly, a number of government decisions, as well as state and sectoral programs.
The analysis of world experience shows that integration of education, science and production will boost innovative potential of any country’s economy and now is one of key components of Uzbekistan’s Action Strategy for further development.
This, in turn, requires implementation of a number of large-scale reforms, structural transformations, modernization and diversification of the economy sectors, such as improving participation and initiative of higher educational institutions in the ongoing systemic transformations in the country, which results in transformation of higher educational institutions into centers for sharing opinions on innovative and technological ideas that will reduce energy and resource consumption of economy, widespread introduction of energy-saving technologies into production, expand the use of renewable energy sources, master production of fundamentally new types of products and technologies, and thus, ensure competitiveness of domestic goods in foreign and domestic markets, etc.
In this regard, in accordance with the instructions of Mehriddin Abdullayev, the Chairman of the Management Board of Uzbekneftegaz JSC, in order to expand integration of science, education and production, Uzbekistan GTL LLC and the self-financed research sector of Tashkent State Transport University (TSTU) signed an agreement on implementation of "Energy and environmental assessment of UzGTL synthetic diesel fuel" research project.
This research project will be implemented by the team of the Department of Transport and Power Plants of the TSTU, headed by B.I. Bazarov, Professor and Doctor of Technical Sciences. It should be noted that the project will also involve a number of third-party organizations and local vehicle manufacturers, which will enhance reliability and veracity of experimental findings, and serve to wide dissemination of information about new types of alternative sources of energy for transport.
The purpose of this research project is to determine comparative energy-environmental performance of a truck when using UZGTL synthetic diesel fuel (SDF) against a standard crude based diesel fuel.
Uzbekistan GTL will allocate its own vehicles, including low-tonnage trucks and other special equipment for this project
The scope of the research project includes: study and analysis of the matters of production, transportation, storage, refueling and use of the GTL fuel as a substitute for a conventional diesel, analysis of physicochemical, thermophysical properties of the GTL fuel received from various sources and scientific and technical data; development of a methodology and program for field research of vehicles to compare performance of an engine running on two types of fuel; conducting a field research, consisting of studies of a vehicle operation on two types of fuel (standard diesel fuel and GTL diesel) at various vehicle speeds. The field research will determine a maximum speed, vehicle acceleration time, fuel consumption, emissions of harmful substances with exhaust gases.
Upon completion of the research, the team will issue a Technical Report on the use of GTL fuel, and based on comparison results, will develop respective recommendations to let the broad public and future users of GTL fuel know about all benefits of this fuel.
Uzbekistan GTL LLC plans to further expand and strengthen cooperation in the field of science and education with other higher educational institutions and external stakeholders.