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To investigate the posibilities of using crude palm oil for marine diesel engines of inland waterway fleet in Vietnam

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At present time, the climate change has been effecting on the over world. There are many reasons to make the climate changed including the emissions from the diesel engines equipped on board the ships. The International Maritime Organization through the Annex VI of the MARPOL 73/78 Convention strongly requests the all Governmental Parties to take a part in the reduce the emissions from their fleet to the atmosphere. However, how to reduce the emissions from the ships is always a rather difficult question for the whole government.
To reduce the emission from the ships, there are some countermeasures to be used such as: exhaust gas treatment, modification of diesel engines and using alternative fuel as a biodiesel. Using of biodiesel as fuel for diesel engines is very well-known, however the biodiesel is rather expensive if it is used for marine diesel engines as the cost to transesterify the triglyceride to three fatty methyl esters (bio-diesel fuel) is very high. Therefore, responding to the emission reduction plan of the Vietnamese Government, the Vietnam Maritime Universty is carry out a research on using the crude palm oil for the marine diesel engines equipped on board of  inland waterway ships. The crude palm oil means the pure palm oil which is not transesterified (It is not 3 fatty acid methyl esters).  The research come to make sure:
- Whether we can use the crude palm oil for marine diesel engines?
- How many percent of  the crude palm oil should we mix with the DO then the mixed fuel do not make harm to the technical and economical features of the marine diesel engines;
- How much we can reduce the exhaust gas emissions from the ships when we use the mixture fuel for the marine diesel engines in Vietnam.
The research started since 2010 at Vietnam Maritime University facilities and a sizable number of experiment has been done. As the output of research, positive result at the considerable reduction of engines exhaust gas emissions has been obtained. The paper is discussing on the methodology and possibility of using crude palm oil for diesel engine of in-land water fleet in Vienam and the obtained result as well.
 
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