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Demystifying the lifecycle environmental benefits and harms of LNG as marine fuel

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APPLIED ENERGY
卷 292, 期 -, 页码 -

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ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.116869

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Environmental impact; Liquefied natural gas; Duel fuel engines; Life cycle assessment; Parametric trend life cycle assessment; Cleaner shipping; Marine fuels

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  1. Korean Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries [20200249133-00]

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This study examined the relationship between LNG and environmental impacts in shipping activities and introduced a parametric trend lifecycle assessment method. Results showed that different types of LNG engines have varying environmental strengths and limitations, with the first engine type proving more effective compared to diesel fuel. Additionally, it was found that the operational phase contributes significantly more to global warming effects and local pollutants compared to the production phase.
This paper was to answer a fundamental question on whether LNG truly contribute to reducing environmental impacts from shipping activities. Given this, it was intent to determine the holistic association between LNG and environmental impacts. An enhanced method, known as the parametric trend lifecycle assessment, was introduced. To obtain a general observation, the analysis was coupled with the extensive dataset of over 7,000 ships consisting of bulk carriers, container ships, LNG carriers and Ro-Ro ships under various scenarios. Results demystified the environmental strengths and limitations of LNG engines that fell into three representative types: low-speed high-pressure dual-fuel engines, low-speed low-pressure dual-fuel engines, and medium-speed lowpressure dual-fuel engines. The first engine type was confirmed effective compared to diesel fuel, whereas the other two types required further optimization. Research findings also revealed that the operational phase generally contributed twice the global warming effect and about ten times more local pollutants than the production phase. A substantial contribution to the industry could be made by the environmental indicators developed in this paper. They are highly expected to help stakeholders to break through the discrepancy problem raised in previous studies that were so different from case to case that the scope, boundary of analysis, data, and assumptions they used were far away from contributing to standardization. In addition, the proposed approaches taken to develop those indicators are also strongly believed to offer a meaningful insight into future regulatory and decision-making frameworks.

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