Methanol as fuel for marine diesel engines
Methanol is one of the most promising fossil free fuels available for future shipping. Methanol is abundant, clean burning and enables the lowest greenhouse impact of any liquid fuel. Currently methanol can only be used with dual fuel technology. Installation of dual fuel technology is costly and requires two separate tank systems, one for fuel oil and one for methanol. A shortcut to CO2-neutral shipping is to use methanol directly in standard diesel engines. This requires development of new engine software, based on engine tests and combustion modelling work. The project will move from an experimental 20 kW engine to a 220 kW engine and finally to a 1.6 MW ship engine. The consortium behind this project will develop and market a methanol fuel system which can adapt to existing engines.
Key figures
Participants
| Partner | Subsidy | Auto financing |
|---|---|---|
| Teknologisk Institut | 0,73 mio. DKK | 1,10 mio. DKK |
| Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU) | 0,98 mio. DKK | 0,13 mio. DKK |
| Alfa Laval Aalborg A/S | 0,70 mio. DKK | 1,05 mio. DKK |
| Nordic Green ApS | 0,57 mio. DKK | 0,38 mio. DKK |
| Akzo Nobel Surface Chemistry | 0,06 mio. DKK | 0,09 mio. DKK |
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