Greenhouse Gas Reduction Characteristics of Marine Heavy Fuel Boilers with Alternative Use of MGO
The IMO’S 72nd MEPC meeting proposed the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by up to 50% by 2050. Thus, various eco-friendly fuels are proposed as alternatives, but there are also various issues that need to be tackled, such as storage stability and supply system issues in a special environment a ship has. Therefore, in this study, the possibility of reducing greenhouse gases was analyzed by applying MGO as an alternative to boilers operated with HFO, a Bunker-C series. As a result, the exhaust gas temperature decreased by about 11.54% from 316.9℃ to 280.3℃, and the amount of oxygen content increased by about 0.38% from 6.27% to 6.65%. It can be seen that carbon monoxide can be reduced by about 45.28% by simply converting fuel from 45.29 ppm to 24.78 ppm, and carbon dioxide, which is a typical greenhouse gas, can be reduced by about 0.49% from HFO by 11.08% to MGO by 10.59%. This means that some greenhouse gas reduction is possible only by shifting between ship fuels that satisfy ISO-8217, but since there are limitations to achieving strong carbon neutrality proposed by IMO, it will be necessary to actively utilize the use of various alternative fuels in the future.