ANSWER: Kerala
Explanation:
India’s first Liquified Natural Gas driven bus was launched on 8th Nov 2016 in Kerala.
- Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan flagged off the bus.
- The LNG driven bus was rolled out of Union Government plans to use LNG.
- Liquified Natural Gas is a natural gas with methane and ethane and it has been converted to liquid form for easy storage or transport.
- It takes up 1/600th the volume of the natural gas in the gaseous state.
- It is odourless, colourless, toxic and non corrosive.
- LNG achieves a higher reduction in volume as against CNG so volumetric energy density of KNG is 2.4 times that of CNG or 60 percent of the diesel fuel.
- This ensures that LNG is cost efficient to transport over long distances where pipelines are not prevalent.
- Natural gas has the lowest CO2 emissions per unit of energy.
- Burning natural gas produces 30 percent less CO2 than burning petroleum and about 45 percent less than burning coal.
