Workplan, WP 1.2: Safety – Operations with methanol
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The maritime sector is facing a major challenge. While a globally growing economy leads to more demand for transport of goods, the goals from the Paris climate agreement and the subsequent agreement in IMO requires a 70% reduction of CO2-emissions from maritime transport by 2050 compared to 2008. Several parties are working on the development of new fuel types for shipping, such as methanol, hydrogen, various biofuels and battery-electric. There is great uncertainty about the best option for the short and longer term, and what the best options are for different ship segments. Within the Green Maritime Methanol 1 and 2 projects, sector wide consortia of respectively 30 and 37 partners have investigated the feasibility of application of methanol as a marine fuel. The main goal of the Green Maritime Methanol projects is to identify and remove barriers that
stand in the way of methanol implementation. For Green Maritime Methanol 3.0 the following objectives have been defined:
- Develop solutions for current safety issues when applying methanol. - Broaden the knowledge on single methanol fuel solutions for powertrains on-board of ships. - Understand the design barriers for different ship types by developing new ship design pilots. - Understand the most important barriers (technology, economics and policy) towards investment decisions aimed at large scale adoption of methanol in shipping.
stand in the way of methanol implementation. For Green Maritime Methanol 3.0 the following objectives have been defined:
- Develop solutions for current safety issues when applying methanol. - Broaden the knowledge on single methanol fuel solutions for powertrains on-board of ships. - Understand the design barriers for different ship types by developing new ship design pilots. - Understand the most important barriers (technology, economics and policy) towards investment decisions aimed at large scale adoption of methanol in shipping.
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TNO Identifier
995670
Publisher
TNO
Collation
13 p.
Place of publication
Delft