Brake specific fuel consumption (BSFC) (g/kWh) for main engines, by engine and fuel type.

data(MainBSFC)

Format

A data frame with 13 rows and 4 variables:

engineType

main engine type, SSD=Slow Speed Diesel,MSD=Medium Speed Diesel,LNG=Liquid Natural Gas,ST=Steam turbine,GT=Gas turbine,MSD-ED=Medium Speed Electric Diesel,GT-ED=Gas Turbine Electric Diesel

fuelType

fuel type used by vessel: RM/HFO=Residual Marine/Heavy Fuel Oil,MGO/MDO=Marine Gas Oil/Marine Diesel Oil,LNG=Liquid Natural Gas

BSFC

Brake specific fuel consumption rate for main engines (g/kWh)

Source

Character string describing source of each bsfc rate for each engine and fuel type

Details

This data is used in calcEF_CO2.r calcEF_PM.r calcEF_SO2.r

References

International Maritime Organization.Third IMO GHG Study 2014 - Final Report. London: International Maritime Organization, 2014. IVL, David Cooper, and Tomas Gustafsson. Methodology for Calculating Emissions from Ships. 1. Update of Emission Factors, n.d., 47. Wartsila (2014). Solutions for marine and oil and gas markets.

Examples

assign("EFBSFC",get(utils::data(MainBSFC)))