Associate Professor Patrick Kirchen has been named the inaugural holder of the Rosenblatt Professorship in Marine Engineering at UBC. This new Professorship was made possible by Bruce S. Rosenblatt & Associates LLC, and provides five years of support for research and educational programming that accelerates the implementation of sustainable, low carbon intensity fuels in the marine industry.
The International Maritime Organization has identified the adoption of low carbon intensity fuels as an important tool to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from marine industries, however, it is not clear which of the many candidate fuels and new technologies are suitable for a given marine application. The options facing industry are many – fuels like renewable natural gas, biofuels, renewable diesel, methanol, hydrogen, ammonia, or electricity – but each may have different impacts on GHG emissions or pose different barriers to short term implementation.