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FUTURE FUELS

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FUTURE FUELS: FUTURE FUELS:

THE STATE OF THINGS

Two years of IMO sulfur cap has highlighted certain truths. Scrubbers still “decarbonize”.

Dual-fuel engines provide carbon-intensity indicator options, or CII. Certain fuels look destined for certain vessel types, and OEMs are seeing public and private money to produce new engine types and future fuels. A survey suggests “no one really knows” which future fuels will survive, or which of ammonia, hydrogen, methanol, LNG, LPG or additives-rich biofuels might dominate. Changing rules, war and tech disruption make following along key.

BY WILLIAM STOICHEVSKI 24 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • May 2022

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