Currently, a major focus point for us is renewable, carbon dioxide (CO2) neutral fuels like treated and untreated plant oils, animal fats, waste oils – fuels which cause considerable problems in high speed engines with their more sensitive injection systems.
Far from being a distant prospect for future generations, bio-fuel power and cogeneration plants are an established, economically viable technology with a proven track record of greenhouse gas savings. The company has won several trendsetting contracts for cogeneration plants which are both CO2 neutral and achieve excellent energy utilization levels.
Renewable in, renewable out
In a number of prominent, very successful high energy utilization projects MAN Diesel & Turbo and its customers have compounded the benefits of carbon neutral biofuels and high efficiency cogeneration by utilising heat recovered from engines to produce further carbon neutral fuels. For example, heat recovered from our engines operating on renewable fuels is used to produce vehicle grade bio-diesel, wood pellets for domestic heating and sewage sludge pellets for cement furnaces. In several cases, our biofuel engines have substituted imported fossil fuels with fuels of local origin, further reducing the plant’s carbon footprint.