Prototype yacht & engine musings3 May 2024 10:35
Alliance News item:
Quadrise PLC - London-based clean energy technology provider - Agrees with Vertoro BV to extend the scope of its joint development agreement to include the development of its emulsion technology, bioMSAR Zero incorporating CSO, for testing at sea on-board a newly-designed prototype motor yacht. The firms, which have been collaborating since September 2022, will carry out a land based testing programme to investigate the performance of both premixed and blend-on-board bioMSAR Zero solutions. End
We’re told in the media news piece that the boat/ engine to be used for our sea trials will be a newly designed prototype.
The new Focus (prototype) 3x can be powered by several engines. Look in their social media posts. I looked for the best fit for our synthetic diesel fuel and it looks to be the entry level Mercury 3.0L 270HP diesel.
Mercury was formed out of collaboration between Cummins and Mercruiser.
The Quadrise test engine (at Aquafuel) is a 40kW Cummins marine diesel. There has been much tweaking of this engine re timing etc in order to get optimised efficiency and performance with our different formulation fuels. So masses of learning between QED/Aquafuel/Cummins I guess.
So I looked for a suitable candidate in the 3x offering that might fit that bill. Mercury looks a good fit with the Cummins input they will know/ be able to advise on the engine injection profile and timing setup that will be required.
Anyway what I’m getting at is that the boat is nearly ready for a soft launch (at Cannes in September) to tie-in with the Vertoro news statement.
The engine tweaks and set up is just that, it won’t need a redesign but is rather ‘designed for these fuels’ in what is a prototype new boat.
My assumption is that this boat and engine combination will be quickly ready for our testing. Not withstanding that we have some land based testing to go through firstly in order to get those setup parameters nailed down in this particular (smaller) engine/power train combination.
But blend on board? Wow that’s going to be miniaturised . . . Not thought much about that yet
Happy days 😊
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