Quadrise Fuels International Plc (AIM:QFI), the supplier of innovative energy solutions for a cleaner planet, provides the following update further to the Company’s announcement of 16 January 2023, on the testing of its bioMSAR™ fuel carried out by Wärtsilä Services Switzerland (“Wärtsilä”) in December 2022.

As part of Quadrise’s ongoing Framework Agreement with MSC Shipmanagement, optical combustion and engine wear tests of bioMSAR™ were carried out as a necessary precursor to commercial-scale vessel trials.

The optical combustion test, against MSAR® and diesel fuels, has confirmed bioMSAR™ to have similar injection and combustion properties as MSAR® and that bioMSAR™ is therefore expected to behave similarly to MSAR® when utilised in medium and slow-speed diesel engines.

Extended wear tests over a 250 hour period were also completed successfully.

The Company is pleased to confirm that, as a result of these test results, bioMSAR™ can proceed to the next phase of assessment, with hazard identification and operability studies now scheduled ahead of commercial vessel testing on the MSC Leandra and further announcements will be made, as appropriate, in due course.

Jason Miles, Chief Executive of Quadrise, commented:

“The extensive tests undertaken by Wärtsilä clearly demonstrate the suitability of bioMSAR™ for use in both marine and power plant applications. This is an important step in clearing the fuel for commercial supply and we look forward to progressing our final round of tests ahead of planned vessel trials with MSC for both MSAR® and bioMSAR™ later this year.”
Source: Quadrise Fuels International