Everllence has confirmed the running on ethanol, at all load points, of its 21/31 dual-fuel engine at test facilities in Frederikshavn, Denmark.

Everllence pioneered the two-stroke methanol-burning engine platform over a decade ago, with the first commercial engine entering service in 2016.

Rasmus Frimann Nielsen, senior manager of Head of Four-Stroke Small-Bore Engineering at Everllence, said: “This engine platform has shown great promise when burning alternative fuels and, during testing, we even managed to expand the ethanol fuel-share compared with methanol.”

“In general, the past few years have seen steadily growing interest in ethanol from the market. We always do our utmost to listen to these signals and had accordingly been carrying out the necessary design considerations, which

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