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# Truck services for fuel tests
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/truck-services-for-fuel-tests/
- Published: 2006-06-13T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T18:19:36.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Government & Politics, Santa Monica, #archive-import

City Hall intends to spend $30,000 in in-kind services from the fleet management division to support a project regarding fuel alternatives.

A project with the South Coast Air Quality Management District will test alternative fuels whose emissions may be capable of meeting 2010 federal standards.

On its own, biodiesel is not a fuel alternative because it creates too much emission in oxides of nitrogen (NOx); however, catalytic reduction devices have been used in the past to control NOx emissions, according to city staff. The project would test the possibility of biodiesel working alongside catalytic reduction to create an effective alternative fuel source.

To demonstrate the viability of biodiesel in tandem with selective catalytic reduction, two of City Hall’s garbage trucks operating on a 20 percent blend of biodiesel with petroleum diesel fuel will be tested with the new technology.

The cost includes vehicle downtime and time spent tracking and recording data by city employees.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 13, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/061306.pdf?ref=smdp.com)