Buchholz, B., Hopp, M., Niendorf, M., Hassel, E.. Shipping in Coastal Regions - State of the Art and Current Research for Emission Reduction. In: Schernewski, G., Löser, N. (eds.). BaltCoast 2004 - Managing the Baltic Sea. Coastline Reports (2), pp. 227-235. 2004.

Shipping generally is an environmentally-friendly means of transport with relatively low CO2 emissions. Due to concentration of ship traffic in coastal areas and due to the emission behaviour of ship diesel engines at low and instationary loads, a further reduction of emissions from shipping is desirable and necessary. The formation of emissions inside diesel engines is of a complex nature. Measures which reduce a certain emission component will increase another component at the same time. The EMI-MINI project at the University of Rostock investigates fuel sprays from modern common-rail diesel injectors for ship engines in order to find measures that reduce emissions and maintain the already existing advantages of modern ship diesel engines. Within the project, state-of-the-art laser measurements are applied to determine the influence of injection parameters on the properties of fuel sprays inside the cylinders of large diesel engines.