Fate, Behaviour, Potential Damage & Liabilities Arising from a Spill of Biofuels in the Marine Environment

This report focuses on biofuels as a non-traditional marine fuel. Biofuel is a generic term used to describe fuels produced directly or indirectly from organic material, including vegetable oils, other plant materials and animal waste (but not from fossilised organic material, as with traditional fuel oils). Biofuels are seen as viable ‘transition fuels’ as, although not being zero-carbon, their upstream life cycle emission levels (also know as ‘well to tank’ emissions for fossil-derived fuels) are significantly lower than conventional hydrocarbon fuels because they are typically produced from renewable feedstocks.

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