Unmasking Bunker Fuel Adulteration: Strategies For Detection and Prevention

The bunker (marine) fuel industry is truly enormous with 320 million tons of fuel consumed at a cost of over $250 billion annually. This book addresses the problems of contaminated and adulterated fuels, estimated to cause losses of $30-50 billion, and provides multiple solutions.Buyers and users of marine fuels have almost fatalistically accepted the presence of poor-quality adulterated fuels as inevitable and assume they must live with this problem indefinitely. This book provides clear and well-researched solutions that can effectively eliminate this issue and liberate the maritime shipping industry from its long-lasting suffering.Dr. Ram Vis, a world's leading authority on bunker fuels, will show you that there are multiple solutions to handle problems on an ad hoc basis and long-term silver bullet solutions which can eliminate this problem completely. This book challenges stakeholders in the industry to take the strong actions necessary to bring the non-conforming players in the industry under control. In addition, it offers interim solutions which call for more detailed analyses of the fuels and looks for contaminants not covered by industry standard tests prescribed by the International Shipping Organization.Dr. Ram Vis, the Bunker Guru is a well-known name in the bunker fuel industry since 1975. Starting as a marine engineer, he later earned a Master's degree in Heat Power Engineering and a PhD in Metallurgical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Madras.Dr. Vis worked at NASA for seven years before starting his own business, Viswa Lab, headquartered in Houston, Texas. Since 1991, Viswa Lab now named as The Viswa Group, has grown into eight testing labs situated around the globe. He says, “Believe me, we CAN solve the bunker fuel problem!” Read more