The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Caterpillar Inc. have entered into a cooperative research and development agreement, or CRADA, to investigate marine methanol-fueled four-stroke engines.
While methanol has been much in focus as a fuel for large, two-stroke powered oceangoing vessels, the availability of methanol-fueled four=strokes could see its adoption across a broad range of vessel types. ORNL, which categorizes the marine industry as a...