Swiss marine energy firm WinGD and South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) have agreed to cooperate on future gas vessel functions with ammonia-fueled engines. The memorandum of understanding, signed through the Gastech convention in Singapore this week, signifies a powerful intention on the a part of SHI to put in WinGD’s X-DF-A dual-fuel ammonia engines on forthcoming newbuild vessels.
The cooperation will embrace getting ready X-DF-A for integration with wider ammonia gas techniques and auxiliary equipment throughout a variety of vessel designs, together with oil tankers, containerships and ammonia carriers. The mission is in keeping with WinGD’s beforehand introduced timeframe of bringing X-DF-A ammonia engines into service from Q1 2025.
Haeki Jang, CTO, Samsung Heavy Industries, stated, “Working with WinGD to prepare its ammonia engines for integration with newbuild projects in key vessel segments will ensure that SHI can offer customers the future fuel vessel solutions they need to meet their decarbonization targets.”
Volkmar Galke, Director Sales, WinGD, stated, “This collaboration offers WinGD the opportunity to participate in the future fuel preparations of one of the world’s biggest and most respected builders of high-quality vessels. The aim is to prepare engine and vessel designs as well as fuel system integration specifications that will lead to X-DF-A engines being deployed on a wide range of SHI-built, ammonia-fuelled vessels.”
WinGD is because of start validation of its ammonia-fuelled engine idea on single and multi-cylinder check engines, in Winterthur and Shanghai, later this yr. The validation assessments comply with combustion idea testing that started in 2021, in live performance with simulation and rig assessments to grasp the emissions traits and injection necessities of ammonia gas.
The X-DF-A, like its methanol-fuelled counterpart X-DF-M, will function on a high-pressure Diesel-cycle combustion course of, with liquid ammonia gas injection supported with a low portion of pilot gas.
