Waste Heat Measurements from the Exhaust of a Ship Diesel Internal Combustion Engine

The maritime propulsion is highly based on combustion of lower quality fuels in internal combustion engines (ICE). The European Environmental Agency reports that the international maritime sector in the EU emitted 135 Mio. tons of CO2 in 2015, corresponding to 12.8 % of the total CO2 emissions in the transportation sector [1]. Even though several efforts have been made to increase the efficiency of maritime ICEs, around 50 % of the fuel energy is still released to the environment as waste heat. To quantify the available waste heat and the potential for waste heat recovery, a measurement device has been developed at the Institute for Energy Systems of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in cooperation with the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore (NTU).     «

The maritime propulsion is highly based on combustion of lower quality fuels in internal combustion engines (ICE). The European Environmental Agency reports that the international maritime sector in the EU emitted 135 Mio. tons of CO2 in 2015, corresponding to 12.8 % of the total CO2 emissions in the transportation sector [1]. Even though several efforts have been made to increase the efficiency of maritime ICEs, around 50 % of the fuel energy is still released to the environment as waste...     »