Wärtsilä 32 Methanol Engine: A Familiar Four-Stroke Takes On Future Fuel

Capt. John
Credits: Tim Mossholder/ Unsplash
  • The well-proven four-stroke engine platform, introduced in the 1980s, is reimagined as a flexible-fuel prime mover with the ability to burn green methanol.
  • Wärtsilä has also developed retrofit solutions that will allow those engines to burn methanol, leveraging its past experience with Stena Germanica. 
  • Global production of methanol stands at about 100M tonnes, of which about one-third is traded globally.

Over the next few years, shipowners will have a widening...

https://mfame.guru/wartsila-32-methanol-engine-a-familiar-four-stroke-takes-on-future-fuel/

Leave a Comment