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Alternative marine fuel trials to be launched
Cespa has signed an agreement with fuel supplier Quadrise and shipping firm Maersk to trial an alternative marine fuel known as Marine MSARR, which is claimed to offer lower costs and be potentially environmentally safer compared to traditional heavy fuel oil.
The trials are due to begin in 1H2016 and will see the fuel supplied from the Gibraltar-San Roque refinery to Maersk ships following the installation of a manufacturing unit for the alternative fuel at the site. The programme is expected to run until the end of 2016, or early 2016 when engine tests on the fuel will be completed. Regulatory and commercial approvals would then be sought prior to commercialisation.
‘The oil-in-water emulsion fuel technology makes heavy hydrocarbon residues easier to use by producing a lower viscosity oil mixed with water,’ explains Quadrise. ‘Alternative fuel emulsions, which are water in oil, are produced from heavy fuel oil. By emulsifying refinery residues, as opposed to heavy fuel oil, the refinery is able to create more value, and also lower priced fuels, by selling the distillates that would traditionally be blended into its heavy fuel oil.’
Cespa is a leading supplier of bunker fuel worldwide. Last year it launched DMB 0.1%, a low sulphur marine fuel to meet new sulphur emission control area (SECA) standards, a topic that will be addressed in more detail in the December issue of Petroleum Review.
