The development and certification of a single fuel high speed marine CI engine on methanol
Svensson, Magnus LU
; Molander, Patrik
; Ramne, Bengt
; Tuner, Martin
LU
and Verhelst, Sebastian
LU
(2023)
30th CIMAC Congress 2023 in Busan
- Abstract
Reducing emissions is a priority for all vessels, as global warming is accelerating, and emissionregulations are becoming ever stricter. Still, waterborne transport is the most energy efficientalternative in many cases, and in some cases the only alternative. Vessels in the maritime sectoroperate far from electric charging infrastructure, and have large demands in terms of autonomy, so tobe able to carry an energy dense fuel onboard is required. With most of the maritime sector using fossil diesel to fuel compression ignition engines, significantamounts of greenhouse gases and harmful emissions are produced. Methanol is a clean burning fuel,meaning that no or very few harmful emissions are formed in the combustion. It also has... (More)
Reducing emissions is a priority for all vessels, as global warming is accelerating, and emissionregulations are becoming ever stricter. Still, waterborne transport is the most energy efficientalternative in many cases, and in some cases the only alternative. Vessels in the maritime sectoroperate far from electric charging infrastructure, and have large demands in terms of autonomy, so tobe able to carry an energy dense fuel onboard is required. With most of the maritime sector using fossil diesel to fuel compression ignition engines, significantamounts of greenhouse gases and harmful emissions are produced. Methanol is a clean burning fuel,meaning that no or very few harmful emissions are formed in the combustion. It also has attractiveproperties for onboard storage and can be produced from a renewable feedstock, which means a netzero CO2 fuel. FASTWATER is a European Horizon 2020 project that is looking to demonstrate and developmethanol as a fuel for medium and high-speed engines, with retrofit solutions and next generationsystems. One of the developments is that of a high speed, heavy duty single fuel compression ignitionengine. The compression ignited methanol engine allows the high efficiency from a diesel engine, incombination with the low emissions from a clean burning fuel. This paper presents the development of a demo single fuel compression ignition engine, using asingle fuel consisting primarily of methanol, with 3% ignition enhancer and lubricity additive. Theresults from emission tests are reported, with the engine having been certified according to IMO Tier 3legislation, the strictest marine emission standard today, without the need for emission aftertreatmentsystems. The engine is currently running in real world conditions in the pilot boat Pilot 120SEoperating at the east coast of Sweden.
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- Svensson, Magnus
LU
; Molander, Patrik
; Ramne, Bengt
; Tuner, Martin
LU
and Verhelst, Sebastian
LU
- organization
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- 2023-06-16
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- 30th CIMAC Congress 2023 in Busan
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- Busan, Korea, Republic of
- conference dates
- 2023-06-12 - 2023-06-16
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- English
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abstract = {{<p>Reducing emissions is a priority for all vessels, as global warming is accelerating, and emissionregulations are becoming ever stricter. Still, waterborne transport is the most energy efficientalternative in many cases, and in some cases the only alternative. Vessels in the maritime sectoroperate far from electric charging infrastructure, and have large demands in terms of autonomy, so tobe able to carry an energy dense fuel onboard is required. With most of the maritime sector using fossil diesel to fuel compression ignition engines, significantamounts of greenhouse gases and harmful emissions are produced. Methanol is a clean burning fuel,meaning that no or very few harmful emissions are formed in the combustion. It also has attractiveproperties for onboard storage and can be produced from a renewable feedstock, which means a netzero CO2 fuel. FASTWATER is a European Horizon 2020 project that is looking to demonstrate and developmethanol as a fuel for medium and high-speed engines, with retrofit solutions and next generationsystems. One of the developments is that of a high speed, heavy duty single fuel compression ignitionengine. The compression ignited methanol engine allows the high efficiency from a diesel engine, incombination with the low emissions from a clean burning fuel. This paper presents the development of a demo single fuel compression ignition engine, using asingle fuel consisting primarily of methanol, with 3% ignition enhancer and lubricity additive. Theresults from emission tests are reported, with the engine having been certified according to IMO Tier 3legislation, the strictest marine emission standard today, without the need for emission aftertreatmentsystems. The engine is currently running in real world conditions in the pilot boat Pilot 120SEoperating at the east coast of Sweden.</p>}},
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