Navigate changes in the marine industry with Innospec
Today’s market depends more than ever on the reliability and efficiency of marine engines. Environmental legislation is putting pressure on ship owners, managers and operators to reduce emissions and move to much lower sulphur fuels – whether this is the traditional residual heavy fuel oil, or marine distillate.
New legislation from the International Maritime Organisation on Emission Control Areas is changing the fuels used by the shipping industry. The drive to introduce marine fuels with increasingly lower sulfur content – both HFO and distillate grades – is presenting a challenge for ship owners and marine engineers.
Whether you are staying with HFO, or changing to marine diesel fuels – We have the answer.
We understand these challenges facing the industry and can provide you with the next generation of fuel additives.
Our knowledge of the marine fuels industry is unrivalled. Innospec has a long history in heavy fuel oils and we understand the industry is changing. As the world’s only fuel additive manufacturer focused solely on fuel additives, we understand the complexities of handling heavy fuel oil and marine diesel/gasoil at sea.
We are the world’s largest supplier of heavy fuel oil additives , marine fuel additives and marine diesel treatments. Whatever the fuel quality, our portfolio of additives is guaranteed to optimize engine reliability, boost performance, improve fuel economy and reduce maintenance requirements.
All Innospec fuel additives are fully tested in marine conditions and offer an unrivalled array of benefits, helping you enhance fleet performance.
Pre-Combustion Additives
Better fuel stability in pre-combustion
Our high performance pre-combustion additives enhance the properties of any type of oil, including bunker fuel oil. Our wide range of dispersants and stabilizers offer proven results:
- Increase fuel stability when mixing fuels
- Improve fuel quality
- Blend heavy and light components
- Detergent effect to clean bunker tanks, filters, strainers and fuel heaters
- Boost compatibility and create completely homogenous fuels to improve fuel injection, atomization and combustion efficiency
Our dispersants and stabilizers are available as pure ashless additives or in combination with a combustion catalyst. This combined treatment will keep the fuel and exhaust systems clean, and reduce unburned carbon emissions.
Combustion Additives
Clever combustion
During fuel combustion, damaging deposits can build up and hinder engine performance. For a cleaner engine, you need the very best fuel additives.
Our marine combustion additives can be used for all types of marine fuels. Whether you choose a highly concentrated additive, a diluted liquid combustion additive or a solid combustion catalyst, our specialty solutions will enhance fuel stability and quality, while protecting a ship’s valuable systems:
- Ensure a more complete burnout of carbon and hydrocarbon
- Reduce unburned carbon deposits
- Maintain cleaner lube oil to prevent engine wear
- Discover cleaner engines, turbochargers and exhaust gas boilers
- Cut down on engine maintenance
- Increase the time between overhauls
- Significantly reduce the risk of gas boiler soot fires
- Reduce unburned carbon, known as “black carbon”, and its impact on environment.
Ash Modifiers
Eliminating ash
Ash deposits can impact engine efficiency in ships and hamper fleet performance. As the leading expert in fuel additives for the shipping industry, Innospec has developed unmatched ash modification solutions to give you the edge in an increasingly competitive market.
Our ash modifiers are a combination of an ash inhibitor and a combustion catalyst. They deliver a unique blend of fuel, providing faster, more efficient fuel combustion through the rapid oxidation of fuel.
Our ash inhibitors will also help you put an end to hard ash deposits in exhaust valves and super heater tubes. They are specially designed to raise ash compounds’ melting point – making it higher than exhaust valves and superheaters’ surface temperatures. Plus, the combustion catalysts improve combustion in both boilers and combustion engines. This also helps improve combustion in diesel and non-diesel engines.
Marine Distillate Additives
The next generation of marine fuel additives
Emission Control Areas and global sulphur limits are changing the fuels used by the shipping industry.
We have anticipated these developments by creating the next generation of multipurpose marine distillate fuel treatments. Our additives provide ship owners and engineers with effective solutions for treating new types of fuel, ensuring fleet integrity, reliability and performance are maintained.
Our range of marine distillate additives will
- Improve Fuel Lubricity
- Reduce injector fouling
- Decrease cold flow temperatures (CFPP and Pour Point)
- Improve fuel stability and reduce filter blocking
- Boost combustion efficiency
- Provide corrosion resistance
Most products within our range have been independently verified by Lloyds Register, assuring the best quality and performance available.
