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Ship&Offshore | Issue GreenTech/2021

Biofuels comparison initiative

July 2021 | Editor

The d’Amico Group is leading a joint industry project (JIP) to test the performance of B30 biofuel blends derived from advanced second-generation feedstock on board its 74,999dwt product tankers, Cielo Bianco and Cielo di Rotterdam . The aim of the JIP is to use well-to-wheel analysis – from raw material acquisition to combustion aboard the tankers – to compare the performance of the biofuel with traditional fossil fuels. D’Amico’s partners in the project are ABS, Liberian Registry, Lloyd’s Register’s Fuel Oil Bunker Analysis Advisory Service (FOBAS), MAN Energy Solutions, RINA and Trafigura....