A total of 15 LPG carriers are now configured for ME-LGIP dual fuel conversions; number of newly built LPG vessels ordered with LPG engines ready to go. BW LPG, the world’s leading owner and operator of LPG ships, has announced that it will upgrade three more MAN engines to be able to use dual fuel, capable of running on fuel oil and LPG. In total MAN Energy Solutions modernized 15 vessels for ME-LGIP. The confirmation of the latter option follows in the footsteps of the successful MELGIP conversion in late October 2020 of the main engine on board BW LPG’s LPG carrier, ‘BW Gemini’, making it the world’s first powered commercial vessel for a two-stroke LPG. The modernization allows to minimize the carbon footprint: the process emits up to 97% less carbon dioxide compared to a new construction. In addition, ...
Aker Carbon Capture and MAN Energy Solutions signed a technology cooperation agreement to develop energy efficient compression solutions for carbon capture and storage (CCS) applications with heat recovery. The agreement supports the companies’ joint goal of reducing the cost of eliminating CO2 emissions from industrial plants around the world. With CCS, captured CO2 is compressed before liquefying and transporting to permanent storage. The two companies aim to develop carbon capture solutions that require less energy. Heat transfer is key to improving the overall energy consumption of CO2 capture plants with MAN Energy Solutions capable of recovering heat from their compression systems. Therefore, the steam generated will cover almost 50% of the energy demand for the Aker Carbon Capture plant. The technology cooperation agreement will last for seven years and constitutes the basis for the delivery of projects to the carbon ...
First boat with a MAN engine that already runs on ecological fuel using restaurant oil, reducing CO2 emissions from freighters by more than 85%. This package of measures is part of sustainable logistics within the Volkswagen group. The Volkswagen Group continues to drive the pace of climate protection: in the future, Volkswagen Group Logistics will use certified fuel made from plant waste for certain new car shipments via sea lanes. Fuel is produced from materials such as used oil from restaurants and the food industry. The first freighter was first refueled with this oil in mid-November 2020 and a second ship is to follow in early 2021. For European shipments, Volkswagen Group Logistics rents ships that transport around 250,000 cars each year making about 50 trips a year. The two ships used for the shipments of the cars are both ...
Navantia presents a program for the design of technological solutions for the shipyard of the future
The Navantia company and the Aimen Technology Center and the auxiliaries Electrorayma and Intaf presented the ‘F4ST’ initiative, which aims to identify, design, develop, implement and validate a series of technological solutions that will be integrated into the management system of Ferrol’s naval factory to work on a new concept of “modular, reconfigurable and flexible shipyard 4.0 that will focus on the manufacture of complex naval components”. Work will be carried out in two areas that cover more than 60% of the Ferrol-Fene shipyard’s productive activity: the sub-block manufacturing line and the offshore wind component manufacturing line in order to improve response capacity in these lines integrating reconfigurable manufacturing cells improving production management These lines will be transformed towards the 4.0 concept. Thus, the degree of automation of operations is maximized through the implementation of new technologies. The application of ...