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4th Annual European Bunker Fuel Conference,
May 23 – 24, 2013
OBATE™ -
Enriched methanol as a bunker fuel
Agenda
Facts & Figures about Haldor Topsøe A/S
Introduction to the OBATETM fuel solution for enriched
methanol
- Flexible set-up
- Current status Stena Scanrail
Methanol market, supply and potential
Summary & questions
Established 1940 Ownership: Family owned by Haldor
Topsøe Holding A/S (100%) Annual turnover (2012): 700 MM EUR Number of employees 2300
Group management – Business units: Chemical,
Environmental, Refinery and New Business
– Engineering Production – Catalyst Production – R&D
Topsøe Group’s headquarters in Lyngby, Denmark
Topsøe - A global supplier of catalysts and technologies
Copenhagen Moscow
Beijing
Bahrain New Delhi
Buenos Aires
Alberta
Kuala Lumpur
Los Angeles Houston
Headquarters Topsøe offices Research Production Engineering Sale & Marketing
Subsidiaries Haldor Topsoe, Inc.
Haldor Topsøe International A/S, Denmark
Haldor Topsoe India Pvt. Ltd. India
ZAO Haldor Topsøe, Russia
Subcontinent Ammonia Investment Company ApS (SAICA)
Topsoe Fuel Cell A/S, Denmark
Rio
Cape Town
Tokyo
Part of the marine industry since 1989
Introduction to the OBATE™ fuel solution
for enriched methanol fuel
Michael Teusch, [email protected]
Background for OBATE™ - Regulations drive the market
The shipping industry will over the coming years have to apply to new regulations
that will force them to reduce emission of SOx, NOx and particles.
Some areas have stricter regulations than others. The areas with the strictest
regulations are the SECA areas (Sulphur Emission Controlled Areas).
As of October 29, 2012 all EU ports are considered SECA area.
From 2020/2025 the regulation applies globally
What do these new regulations mean?
Basically it means that all existing and new ships have to comply to the SOx
emission restrictions by 1/1-2015 and all new ships ordered after 1/1-2016 have to
comply to the NOx emission requirements – this might be postponed 5 years!
ECA- SOx/NOx emission control area
ECA- SOx/NOx emission control area
IMO fuel sulphur content regulation
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0,5
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1,5
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3,5
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2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025
Year
Su
lph
ur
co
nte
nt
(%)
GLOBAL
SECA
IMO fuel NOx regulation
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RPM
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g/k
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Tier I -2000
Tier II -2011
Tier III -2016
Background for OBATE™ - Regulations drive the market
Majority of all ships are sailing on Heavy Fuel Oil (3.5% S)
and therefore cannot be used in SECA from 1-Jan-2015
The following options have to be considered:
– Install scrubbers in order to continue sailing on HFO
– Switch to Marine Gas Oil (0,1% S)
– Retrofit ship to sail on LNG
– Switch to enriched methanol fuel = Zero SOx emission
• Crude or regular methanol is feed into
the OBATE™ fuel solution, and through
a catalytic process transformed into
enriched methanol, which is a mixture
of:
• DME (dimethyl ether)
• methanol and
• water.
What is Enriched Methanol?
Overview of investment requirements
Fuel data:
Enriched methanol has similar values as DME
Property Diesel FT-
diesel
Bio-
diesel
Gaso-
line CNG MeOH EtOH DME DEE
Boiling point, °C 171-343 177-355 182-338 27-225 -160 65 78 -25 34
Cetane Number 40-55 > 74 > 48 13-17 Low Low < 5 > 55 > 125
Auto ignition temperature, °C ~250 ~250 ~250 ~ 400 532 464 422 230 160
Stoichimetric Air/fuel ratio, Wt/Wt 15,0 15,2 13,8 14,5 16,4 6,5 9,0 8,9 11,1
Flash point, °C >62 - >130 -43 -187 12 17 -41 -45
Flameability limits, Vol% Rich 7,6 - - 6,0 13,9 36,9 19,0 27,0 9,5-36
Flameability limits, Vol% Lean 1,4 - - 1,0 5,0 7,3 4,3 3,4 1,9
Lower heating value, kJ/kg 41348 41571 36878 41348 46376 19556 25703 27088 32566
Viscosity, Centipoises @ ( ) °C 40 (20) 2,1 (38) 3,2 (38) 3,4 (20) - 3,5 (38) 1,19 (20) 0,12 (20) 0,23 (20)
Density, kg/liter (Bosch
automotive handbook)
0,82
To
0,85
0,75
To
0,80
0,80
to
0,85
0,72
To
0,78
- 0,65 0,78 0,66 0,71
Methanol can be stored in ordinary tanks
for petroleum products.
• Methanol can be stored in inerted integral tanks surrounded by
cofferdams above water line and with single skin below water
line.
• Methanol can be stored in double bottom tank. Single skin is
acceptable.
• Methanol is totally
dilutable in water.
OBATE™ - The On-Board Solution
OBATE™ - The Stationary Solution
Current status - OBATE™ on Stena Scanrail
Engines located next to OBATETM unit
Day tank
Auxiliary engines OBATETM
reactor
Methanol production
Global methanol production approx. 60M MTPY
Today only around 11% of the volume is used for fuel
Primary feedstock comes from natural gas and coal
Regional possibilities for alternative green feedstock
www.statoil.com
Abundant feedstock for methanol
Courtesy of B. Ramne, Scandinaos
Potential in the European SECA area
Fuel consumption in European SECA area is estimated to
33,000,000 metric tons, which can be split into:
Heavy fuel Oil (HFO) Marine Gas Oil (MGO)
27,000,000 tons 6,000,000 tons
- If all HFO was converted to MeOH = 54,000,000 tons of MeOH
- A conversion of 10% (5,400,000 tons) = 9% of todays global
MeOH production.
What is needed:
- Infrastructure in terms of bunker ships and methanol storage
terminals must be in place
Stena’s global methanol project Initial timeframe for converting Stena’s SECA fleet
Number of
ships
converted
(estimate) 25
2018
1
2014
3
2015
10
2016
20
2017
800
400
125
25
1,000 Thousand tonnes of methanol
Data presented at EffShip seminar in Gothenburg 2013
Summary
Methanol, LNG and Enriched Methanol fuel
Methanol LNG OBATE™ Enriched Methanol
low cetane number low cetane number high cetane number
low heating value high heating value medium heating value
liquid storage storage at -166C storage at 4-6 bars
diesel like storage daily boil-off
simple infrastructure complex infrastructure flexible infrastructure
minor investments large investments minor investments
bio and fossil feedstock fossil feedstock bio and fossil feedstock
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Technical summary
We know:
– OBATETM fuel behavior – good fuel for existing diesel engines!
– How to keep engine emissions down with OBATETM fuel
– It has fuel flexibility: works with Crude and industrial grade methanol
OBATETM secure:
– High fuel efficiency
– Low NOx and low or no soot
– No SOx
Critical next steps & challenges
– Supply chain and infrastructure must be readily available
Thank you.
Contact details:
Michael Teusch
Phone: +45 22 754 759
