MAN Cryo, part of MAN Energy Solutions, has signed a contract with Yantai CIMC Raffles Shipyard for the delivery of fuel-gas supply systems (FGSSs) configured so that boil-off gas can be sent to the MAN’s ME-GI engine via a high-pressure, boil off gas compressor.
The FGSS will be installed on a new series of two dual-fuel, 6,500 pure car carriers for Wallenius Marine on charter to Volkswagen. Henrik Malm, Managing Director at MAN Energy Solutions, Sweden and Finland, claimed that the use of the high-pressure, boil-off-gas compressor to supply boil-off gas tothe ME-GI high-pressure engine represented a world first.
An installed shaft generator will further reduce the running hours of the auxiliary engines.
“Graphical rendering of the new pure car carrier” “/ /
Source: Wallenius
Graphical rendering of the new pure car carrier
The FGSSs for the vessels will be delivered during 2023. The scope of delivery includes the following:
MAN Cryo offers systems for the storage, distribution and handling of liquefied gases and supplied the world’s first LNG fuel-gas system for the Glutra ferry in Norway in 1999, a vessel that is still operational. More recently, in 2013, MAN Cryo supplied the world’s first bunker vessel, the SeaGas.