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Marine Fuels
Publikationstyp
Book Part
Date Issued
2021
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Start Page
535
End Page
540
Citation
Handbook of Fuels: Energy Sources for Transportation. - 2nd ed. - Weinheim, 2022. - Seite 535-540
Publisher DOI
Scopus ID
Publisher
Wiley-VCH
ISBN
978-3-527-81349-0
978-3-527-33385-1
Marine fuels for diesel engines cover a wide range of different grades, ranging from gas oil fractions often referred to as “distillates” - and including a grade with properties similar to automotive diesel fuel - to heavy residual fuel oils containing refinery residues remaining after crude oil distillation. For a long period, marine diesel engines were solely fueled with the distillate type of fuels. The higher fuel cost required also an improvement in the overall efficiency of the marine propulsion systems. The hydrocarbon composition of marine diesel fuels depends mainly on that of the crude oil used in the refinery but on the secondary refinery process units, e.g. aromatics content when the highly aromatic catalytic cracker cycle oil is used as a component in the residual fuels. Water content is often increased after delivery in the ships fuel tanks, either because of leakage into the tank or by tank breathing and condensation.
Subjects
crude oil distillation
hydrocarbon composition
marine diesel engines
marine diesel fuels
marine fuels
water content
DDC Class
620: Engineering