Full Title: Methanol as a Marine Fuel Report
Author(s): Professor Karin Andersson and Carlos Márquez Salazar
Publisher(s): FCBI Energy
Publication Date: October 1, 2015
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Description (excerpt):
Methanol is plentiful, available globally and could be 100% renewable Methanol is readily available worldwide and every year over 70 million tons are produced globally. The main feed-stock in methanol production is natural gas. However, methanol could be 100% renewable, as it can be produced from a variety of renewable feed-stocks or as an electro-fuel. This makes it an ideal pathway fuel to a sustainable future in which shipping is powered by 100% renewable fuels.
Methanol is compliant with increasingly stringent emissions reduction regulations Marine methanol fuel produces no sulfur emissions and very low levels of nitrogen oxide emissions. It is therefore compliant with current emissions reduction measures such as emission control areas (ECAs) and California’s Ocean-going Vessels Fuel Regulation. Over the past decade there has been a trend towards implementing progressively more stringent regulations aimed at reducing emissions that are harmful to human health and contribute to global warming. From the regulatory standpoint, marine methanol is a future-proof fuel that could comply with the most tightly specified emissions reduction legislation currently being considered.