Report: Pilot projects, training important for maritime decarbonization - SAFETY4SEA - Safety4Sea

The Maritime Technologies Forum (MTF) has released a broad appraisal to comparison the feasibility and readiness of alternate marine fuels.

The heatmap study from MTF assesses the level of existent readiness of fossil LNG, bio-methanol and greenish ammonia compared to fossil MGO. The appraisal applied MTF’s Framework for Assessing Decarbonization Technologies and Alternative Energy Carriers to fossil MGO, fossil LNG, bio-methanol and greenish ammonia.

It besides covers 8 categories of evaluation, including sustainability and environmental, safety, security, economical feasibility, regulatory, people, exertion presumption and engineering.

In summation to assessing each substance based connected the applicable criteria, the valuation besides takes into information the level of availability of information to enactment the assessment.

The study recovered that erstwhile bio-methanol and greenish ammonia are compared to fossil MGO and LNG they execute amended successful the sustainability and biology class but people little successful different cardinal categories, chiefly owed to the deficiency of a comparable substance worth chain.

As regulations and probe for bio-methanol and greenish ammonia expand, it is expected they volition go progressively competitory substance solutions.

The appraisal besides recovered that due to the fact that bio-methanol and greenish ammonia deficiency capable data, much grooming and aviator projects volition beryllium needed to amended recognize the economical feasibility of some substance solutions and to summation applicable acquisition to physique a scalable and planetary workforce.

Commenting connected the report, Knut Arild Hareide, Director General of Shipping and Navigation astatine the Norwegian Maritime Authority said:

The anticipated and overmuch needed scaling of handling much hazardous fuels specified arsenic liquefied methane, methanol, ammonia but besides hydrogen, successful liquid oregon gaseous state, requires competence gathering and certified grooming to guarantee the harmless decarbonisation of shipping

Further comments connected the study were provided by the publication’s superior author, Georgios Plevrakis, ABS Vice President for Sustainability, who said:

Applying MTF’s model to alternate substance options provides a captious snapshot connected readiness and identifies the gaps wherever we request to refine our absorption and summation our probe efforts if we are to make economical and technologically feasible substance options

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