Advances in air pollution control for vessels in China


Yongxin Zhang , Yanping Yang , Yue Gong , Ying Wang , Xuecheng Wu , Zhiying Zhou , Weiguo Weng

DOI:10.1016/j.jes.2022.03.026

Received November 22, 2021,Revised , Accepted March 17, 2022, Available online March 28, 2022

Volume 35,2023,Pages 212-221

Vessel emissions have contributed a great deal to air quality deterioration in China. Hence, the Chinese government has promulgated a series of stringent emission regulations. It is in this context that vessel emission control technology research is in full swing. In particular, during the 13th Five-Year Plan, the air pollution control technology of vessels has greatly improved. Vessel emission control has followed two main governance routes: source emission reduction and aftertreatment technology. Source control focuses on alternative fuels, with two main directions, the development of new fuels and the modification of existing fuels. Moreover, after-treatment technologies have also been developed, including wet desulfurization technology using seawater or alkaline liquids as wet washing liquids and selective catalytic reduction (SCR) for the control of NOx emission. Due to China's increasingly stringent emissions standards and regulations, work on the development of clean alternative fuels and further upgrading the collaborative application of after-treatment technologies to meet the near-zero-emissions requirements of vessels is still necessary.

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