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Biofuels
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: December 20, 2022, 11:45 am
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December 19, 2022 Bloomberg
[center]Wind Power Giant Will Make Green Shipping Fuel at Big
Plant in Sweden[/center]
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FlagshipONE combines a series of technologies that will all play
a growing role in the coming years if the EU is to achieve its
ambition to reach net-zero emissions by the middle of the
century.
In one part, the site will use 70 megawatts of electrolyzers
supplied by Siemens Energy AG to produce hydrogen from Sweden’s
electric grid that’s more than 90% supplied by renewable
sources. At the same time, machines made by startup Carbon Clean
will trap CO2 that’s released from a nearby combined heat and
power plant that burns biomass. That CO2 will be combined with
the hydrogen using synthesis equipment from Topsoe to form
methanol, which can be used to fuel ships.
The 50,000 tons of the fuel will be roughly enough to power a
single vessel to make a transatlantic voyage, Breese said. It
could also be used locally to power ferries within Europe,
rather than using 🦖 fossil fuels.
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Compared to convention marine fuel, methanol significantly
reduces emissions of sulphur oxides (SOx), nitrogen oxides (N
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 2, 2023, 11:18 am
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March 1, 2023 By Mike Schuler
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Waterfront Shipping's Cajun Sun at
[glow=red,2,300]Meth[/glow][glow=green,2,300]anex's[/glow]
facility in Geismar, Louisiana. Photo courtesy
[glow=red,2,300]Meth[/glow][glow=green,2,300]anex[/glow]
[center][glow=red,2,300]Meth[/glow][glow=green,2,300]anex[/glow]
Claims World’s First [glow=green,2,300]Net Zero[/glow]
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/>Voyage Fueled by Bio-Methanol[/center]
[glow=red,2,300]Meth[/glow][glow=green,2,300]anex[/glow]
Corporation and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines this week announced that the
dual-fuel vessel Cajun Sun successfully completed the first-ever
net-zero
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/>voyage fueled by bio-methanol.
The Cajun Sun is operated by Methanex’s subsidiary Waterfront
Shipping and chartered from MOL. The net-zero voyage departed
from Geismar, Louisiana in the United States on January 17,
arriving in Antwerp, Belgium about two and a half weeks later.
By blending ISCC-certified bio-methanol
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/>that has [glow=green,2,300]negative carbon intensity[/glow]
with
🦕 natural gas-based methanol
🤦‍♂️, net-zero greenhouse gas
emissions on a lifecycle basis were achieved for the 18-day
trans-Atlantic voyage, Methanex said in a press release.
The voyage is an example of how Methanex and MOL are
collaborating to demonstrate the viability of methanol as a
marine fuel with a pathway
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/>to net-zero emissions in support of shipping’s energy
transition.
Waterfront Shipping became early adopter of methanol as an
alternative marine fuel in 2016 when it jointly built the
world’s first ocean-going methanol dual-fuel tanker named
Taranaki Sun with Methanex and MOL. Today, Waterfront shipping
operates a fleet of 19 deep-sea tankers equipped with methanol
dual-fuel technology.
[glow=green,2,300]Methanol[/glow] is emerging as a promising
alternative fuel that can help shipping meet its increasingly
strict emissions targets. Not only is
[glow=green,2,300]it[/glow] one of the world’s
[glow=green,2,300]most widely traded chemicals[/glow], but it is
also readily available at most of the world’s top ports and its
use can be incorporated into existing bunkering infrastructure,
making it a popular alternative fuel choice for shipowners.
According to classification society DNV, in 2022 there were 35
newbuild ships ordered with the[glow=green,2,300] fue[/glow]l,
primarily in containership sector but also in others such as
heavy lift, ranking it as the second most popular alternative
fuel behind liquefied 🦕 natural gas.
Compared to convention marine fuel,
[glow=green,2,300]methanol[/glow] significantly reduces
emissions of sulphur oxides (SOx), nitrogen oxides (NOx) and
particulate matter, in addition to reducing CO2 emissions.
[glow=green,2,300]Methanol[/glow] produced from renewable
sources
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/>can further reduce CO2 emissions by up to 95 percent compared
to
conventional marine fuels, providing a pathway to meet the
International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) decarbonization
goals. Bio-methanol is a type of renewable methanol that is
produced from biomass feedstocks rather than fossil fuels, and
can be blended with traditional methanol or other fuels to
improve to reduce their carbon footprint.
“We’re proud to bring the marine industry a tangible solution to
transition towards net-zero emissions through our blended
methanol product using bio-methanol produced from renewable
natural gas at our facility in Geismar,” said Mark Allard,
Methanex’s Senior Vice President, Low Carbon Solutions. “As the
world’s largest methanol producer, we are establishing a network
of relationships with leading renewable natural gas suppliers
and assessing other pathways, including carbon capture and
storage and e-methanol, to provide solutions for the marine
industry and other customers.”
MOL acquired a 40% stake in Waterfront Shipping in early 2022
for $145 million, forming a strategic partnership to help
develop the market for methanol as a lower emission marine fuel.
“We’re pleased to complete the net-zero voyage by utilizing
bio-methanol. This is another example of what we can
collectively accomplish in our long-term partnership with
Methanex and Waterfront Shipping that was solidified in early
2022 when we purchased a 40 percent interest in Waterfront
Shipping,” said Kazuhiro Takahashi, MOL’s Executive Officer
responsible for Bunker Business Division. “MOL, as a pioneering
shipping company, is committed to reducing the environmental
impact of the shipping sector. The use of methanol, which can be
readily adopted today, is one of the very promising alternative
fuels. We are also contributing to various stages of supply
chain through the development and usage of alternative fuels in
the global shipping industry.”
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/>AGelbert COMMENT: Conspicuously absent from this "bio-fuel"
use
is the PROPORTION of 🦕 [glow=brown,2,300] "natural" gas
derived methanol[/glow] to the [glow=green,2,300]carbohydrate
derived methanol[/glow]. If MOSt of it is from the "natural"
gas, then this is a "net zero" 😇 GREENWASHING
🦕😈 SCAM. That said, I admit it is a better fuel
than conventional 🦖 marine fuel. IF this
[glow=red,2,300]meth[/glow][glow=green,2,300]anol[/glow]
eventually becomes 100% Renewable Energy Sources derived
[glow=green,2,300]methano[/glow]l, it will help. If not, it will
hurt.
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