As the maritime industry searches for practical routes to lower emissions, Quadrise has taken a more direct path. Instead of betting on unproven fuels or waiting for new infrastructure, the company has engineered a way to make today’s heavy oils burn cleaner, faster and with far less waste. Its MSAR® technology offers shipowners and refiners a cost-effective bridge to decarbonisation that can be deployed immediately.
MSAR® converts heavy residual oils into a low-viscosity synthetic fuel by blending them with small amounts of specialist chemicals and water. The result is a stable emulsion containing roughly 30% water and less than 1% additives, which behaves like a light fuel oil at room temperature.
Within the emulsion, oil droplets are pre-atomised into particles up to twenty times smaller than those formed in conventional liquid fuels. When burned, these microdroplets ignite almost completely, producing a cleaner flame that emits virtually no visible black carbon.
Building on this foundation, Quadrise has introduced bioMSAR™, which replaces part of the fossil content and water with renewable biofuels derived from waste sources. This further lowers lifecycle carbon intensity while retaining the same performance profile.
Quadrise plc (LON:QED) is an energy technology provider whose solutions enable production of cheaper, cleaner, simpler and safer alternatives to fuel oil and biofuels, proven in real world applications. Quadrise technologies produce transition fuels called MSAR® and bioMSAR™, which allow clients in the shipping, utilities and industrial sectors to reduce carbon emissions whilst also saving costs.
