May 20, 2021 09:57 PM EDT
(Photo : Kim Kenny) Biofuels turned out to be very good choices because they have zero or very, very low sulfur relative to fossil fuels, said Eric Tan, NREL s senior research engineer and lead author of a recent paper published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology.
Ling Tao, also from NREL, and scientists from Argonne National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and the US Department of Transportation s Maritime Administration are co-authors of Biofuel Options for Marine Applications: Techno-Economic and Life-Cycle Analyses.
Reduced Volumes of Sulfur Oxide
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After 2005, the International Marine Organization (IMO) has gradually reduced the volume of sulfur oxides that ships are permitted to emit. The sulfur content of ships fuel oil was lowered to 0.5 percent from 3.5 percent under the most recent upper cap, which went into operation at the start of 2020. According to the IMO, the reduction w
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The Waorani tribe from the Amazon of Ecuador filed a lawsuit against the Chinese Oil Company PetroOriental on Thursday, accusing the company of contaminating their ancestral lands by flaring, the burning of natural gas from oil wells.
The indigenous community is objecting to the practice of flaring where millions of cubic meters produced from wells are deliberately burned by oil producers.
The leaders of the Waorani village of Miwaguno filed a lawsuit in the court of Francisco de Orellana as victims of the environmental contamination.
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Coal-tasting rainwater
According to Menare Omene, a 52-year-old Waorani woman, The rainfall tastes like coal. We still use it because we don t have drinking water. Omene s community of about 150 people filed the complaint against the oil company.