Fuels & Lubricants

Oil producer Shell explains how the company’s knowledge of oil stress and ongoing interactions with the OEMs shape the development of its products to meet present and future needs of its customers.

Castrol Marine believes that the way forward for cylinder oils is to match the base number to the individual ship, the fuel, the engine and the operating profile rather than using the…

ExxonMobil’s Mobilgard 560 VS was found to have minimised wear and deposits in a container ship’s main engine, despite operating under conditions that included running at very low cylinder oil feed rates.

At the recent Motorship Propulsion and Emissions Conference in Copenhagen, Total Lubmarine’s Serge Dal Farra described the thinking behind the company’s Talusia Universal cylinder oil.

Researchers from the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering have been collaborating with Hong Kong shipowner Tai Chong Cheang Steamship Co (TCC) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by marine…

Ship operators need to rationalise their energy use in the face of current and anticipated legislation, increasing customer environmental awareness among cargo owners and passengers plus fuel cost rises, says Stuart Melling,…

The role of air emissions monitoring sensors is only just being clarified as SOx and NOx regulations loom. Wendy Laursen looks at the present situation.

Norwegian company Clean Marine has developed an exhaust gas cleaning system (EGCS) to remove sulphur and particulate matter from the exhaust gas by mixing sodium hydroxide aqueous solution and water with the…

Chris Marine is marketing a device to continuously monitor cat fines levels in fuel treatment systems, which can transmit results to the superintendent’s office on shore. The company describes the problem, and…