Green Innovations: Sustainability at Work
Rampmaster's zero plug-in, zero emissions hydrant fueling solutions
Rampmaster has always had a socially conscious philosophy, continually leveraging technical innovations in energy efficiency to help airport operations reduce their environmental footprint. With the growing need in recent years to achieve new levels of sustainability, Rampmaster saw the economic and environmental promise in refueling solutions that could combat a number of industry challenges, including:
- Excessive EPA emissions
- Aging equipment and growing potential safety issues
- Airline capital directed to core business
- Agents with short term contracts serving cost-driven airlines
- No industry incentives for agents to modernize
With these issues in mind, Rampmaster set out to create a new hydrant fueling solution that could take the challenges of sustainable development head-on, and answer the call for cleaner airport operations by our industry's green organizations.
Regenerator & RampCart:
Hydrant Refuelers of a Different Color
It fuels large airliners, but does not carry fuel. It drives like a car, but does not burn fuel. It is 100% electric, but never plugs in. These are contradictions that make Rampmaster Regenerator technology a breakthrough for airports and a truly disruptive solution for hydrant refueling.
The Regenerator technology utilizes the pressure in airport hydrant systems to charge an electric battery located on the cart. The more fuel it delivers, the more energy it generates, enabling it to operate with zero downtime. Plus, Rampmaster green hydrant solutions eliminate the fuel costs, maintenance requirements and fire safety hazards of conventional hydrant cart solutions.
Through the development of our patented Regenerator – our self-sustaining, zero-plug wide-body hydrant fueling solution – Rampmaster is bringing revolutionary changes to airport operations by:
- Eliminating fuel costs and combustion engine maintenance
- Saving 22lbs of CO2 for every gallon of fuel not burned
- Eliminating fire safety hazards from hot engine manifolds and mufflers
- Allowing airports to need less units with zero re-charge downtime
- Eliminating electric utility costs and fossil fuel chain dependency
Compared to the 5 year economics of purchasing a new truck cart, the Regenerator is 67% less expensive. This, combined with the above benefits, yield a NPV savings of 79%!
Rampmaster has also developed this same Regenerator technology in a smaller size still capable of meeting the needs of a busy concourse - the RampCart. It’s nimble, agile and 100% green – and it’s just one more example of Rampmaster innovation at work.
Bring the Benefits of Green Hydrant Technology to Your Airport
There are two ways to bring Regenerator technology to your airport: the Regenerator hydrant cart for wide body jets and the RampCart for narrow body jets.
