Ganser CRS

Contact Information

Telephone: +41/ (0) 52 235 38 87
Fax: +41/ (0) 52 235 38 81
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Website: www.ganser-crs.ch
Country: Switzerland
City: Winterthur

Company Profile

Ganser CRS has been developing the Common Rail injection technology since 1978. Their latest innovation is the Wave Dynamics and Dampening system (WDD) which allows for the modernizing of any diesel engine in the off-road market (ships, generators, locomotives, construction machines) by integrating their slim and compact injectors and pumps. The immediate benefits are fuel savings (at least 5% overall savings), thus contributing to lower operating costs and drastically reduced NOx (nitrogen oxide) HC (hydrocarbon) and smoke emissions (up to 90% reduction of smoke emissions). These benefits are due to the combustion system that is better, compared to the conventional fuel injection system.

If an existing engine (with conventional injection system) is retrofitted with Ganser's CR-components, the end user profits from all the advantages of the Common Rail injection technology compared to conventional injection.

Advantages of the Common Rail injection technology:

-electronically controlled and is thus a more efficient injection process

-pressure regulation and delivery is independent from engine load

-thanks to the flexibility of electronic Common Rail injection, the engine can be further optimized based on the specific emission requirements in a certain region or a certain field of application (e.g. trade-off between NOx- and smoke emissions according to the desired preferences).

Because of these advantages, the Common Rail injection technology is already implemented in all new diesel passenger cars and has led to a huge shift towards diesel engines in the passenger car segment. This is not yet the case for larger engines and this is where Ganser steps in with their flexible and individual solutions.

Ganser is able to fit their Common Rail System into any existing engine. No further changes on the engine are required. Many applications still rely on diesel fuel to fulfill their assignment. The large engines Ganser is targeting have a lifetime of more than 20 years. It is much more convenient to modernize these engines instead of having to replace the whole engine.

The investment for the modernization is paid back due to the reduced fuel consumption. This will be even more relevant in case of rising diesel prices in the future.

Since Ganser replaces an engine component with another one, no additional maintenance is required (compared to for example the additional installation of an exhaust after-treatment system). Further financial profits can emerge from reduced CO2-emissions which can be sold as certificates on the CO2-market.

Ganser's Common Rail systems are applied on new and existing engines in ships, construction machines, locomotives and generators in Switzerland, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Belgium, China and Brazil.

Key Areas of Sustainability

Ganser CRS's products make the engines more energy efficient and cleaner. This brings an immediate advantage for the end user.

An example is given of one diesel-electric locomotive:

-diesel fuel savings of 80 tons per year

-CO2 (greenhouse gas) savings of 250 tons per year

Worldwide, railroad companies with hundreds of locomotives are transporting freight. By applying Ganser's Common Rail injection systems broadly and with the economies of scale coming into effect, the savings of fuel and CO2 are enormous. Further benefits for the environment are drastically reduced smoke and NOx-emissions so that existing and new engines are complying with stricter emission regulations. By making diesel engines cleaner and more energy efficient, Ganser believes that they contribute substantially to the abatement of climate change and air pollution.

Standards achieved

The overall fuel savings of 5% and more and the emission reductions can be achieved with an optimal layout of the CR-components and of the engine (see CIMAC paper No. 233: Re-design of the DEUTZ diesel engine series TBD 628 applying Common Rail and variable turbine Geometry, 2004).