Kunkel, Robert

Robert Kunkel, President of Alternative Marine Technologies, is currently serving as the technical advisor to Coastal Connect, a U.S. company actively developing LNG propulsion as a maritime component of short sea shipping He is a past Vice President of the Connecticut Maritime Association, Past Chairman of the Federal Short Sea Shipping Cooperative Program and a member of the ABS Special Committee on Ship Operations.

09 Jun 2011

LNG Gains Traction as Alternative Fuel

As Cargo, Fuel or both; LNG is emerging as the clear and clean way forward for the maritime industry. The use of LNG as a marine fuel is not new. Vessels trading cryogenic LNG have burned boil-off natural gas in steam boilers for many years as a simple solution to maintaining necessary temperatures and pressures within cargo spaces. The use of the fuel varied according to the size of the ship and a boil off rate ranging between 0.10 to 0.18 percent of the total cargo.

Kunkel, Robert

LNG Gains Traction as Alternative Fuel

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