Can They? Should They?: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to DOE’s Biofuels in Marine Engines

The fuels market and demand for jet fuels is big, but what about the marine sector? After all, over 90% of all goods are shipped via marine vessels fueled with high sulfur (3.5 wt.%) heavy residual fuel oil (HFO).

Zia Haq, Siva Sivasubramanian, Mark Shmorhun, Mohan Gupta, all from the U.S. Department of Energy, gave this illuminating overview of ORNLs evaluation of bio-oils for use in marine engines, recent reports on the potential for biofuels in marine vessels, NREL and BETO’s results from their techno-economic analysis data, and more at ABLC 2019 in Washington, D.C.