2. Current and future applications
The variety of technological solutions on offer opens up a vast array of possible applications. A survey of existing markets, based on an analysis of international technical literature and manufacturers' catalogs, has identified six areas of growth.
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Fuel tanks for vehicles
A distinction must be made here:
on the one hand, cylindrical-spherical tanks mounted on the roof or underneath natural gas vehicles (commonly called Compressed Natural Gas: CNG; Natural Gas Vehicle: NGV; Gaz Naturel pour Vehicules: GNV), widely used on buses, cabs, utility vehicles (vans, pick-ups, trucks) at operating pressures of 200 bar
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