Vehicle Spray Suppression - Making driving in the wet Safer and Easier
About Us
Spraydown is poised to make a big impact towards improving road safety by reducing the spray produced by Commercial Vehicles in wet weather.
At the core of our company is a concept and design developed by John Downes.
His design separates the component parts of the spray (the water and the air), allowing the air to pass through and channeling the water onto the road surface. This design significantly reduces the spray generated when compared to existing mudflap technology.
John's design had been developed, modelled and refined over many years until it was finally independently tested at the Transport Research Laboratories Research test facility in the UK in February 2007. This testing showed that our design delivered a step change in spray suppression, you can see some of the video footage on our website.
At the same time we had asked the University of Strathclyde to do some computational modelling of our mudflap. We knew that in principle the aerodynamic profile of our mudflap is more efficient than existing "solid" mudflaps, we needed to try and quantify this. The answer came back in April, quantifying an estimated 2.3% fuel saving.
Our next milestone was certification by the VCA to the EC standard 91/226, which sets out the minimum requirements for performance and conformity of production. As we expected the design set a new performance standard for the EC testing protocol and we received our certificate in August 07 (e11*91/226*0007*00). Spraydown's technology is the first Air -Water Separator mudflap to gain certification under the European Standard
We are now working with truck manufacturers, fleet operators, trailer manufacturers and parts distributors to launching the Spraydown mudflap at the CV show in April 2008.
If you would like to know more about the Spraydown please feel free to contact us.
Steve Nesbitt
Managing Director