Lloyd's Register has witnessed a new method of turning conventional bunkers into IMO 2020-compliant low-sulphur fuel oil (LSFO).
US technology company Genoil has developed a hydro-conversion upgrader (GHU) that cuts the sulphur content from 1.72% to 0.38%.
It uses fixed-bed reactor technology and can be built alongside existing refinery infrastructure in major bunkering hubs.
Muhammad Usman, Lloyd’s Register product manager for its fuel oil bunker analysis and advisory service, said: "Although LR did not have full visibility of the technical approach used by Genoil’s process or demonstration and was not present throughout, the sample analysed from the output sample of the demonstration was 0.38%
