Projected gas adoption in two-stroke dual-fuel engines. Today, LNG-fueled engines make up the overwhelming majority of dual-fuel engine contracting as represented in crimson within the bar graph above. Interest in methanol is growing and a gradual uptake to round 30% of all dual-fuel engines contracted is predicted by MAN Energy Solutions just some years from now, as indicated in dark-blue. Towards the top of the last decade, ammonia (inexperienced) is predicted to choose up as a marine gas
Methanol is gaining floor as a gas selection for newbuild ships and one beneficiary of the development is MAN Energy Solutions. Hyundai’s shipbuilding division (HHI-SBD) has now ordered six MAN B&W G95ME-C10.5-LGIM dual-fuel major engines for the six 17,000 TEU methanol dual-fueled containerships ordered earlier this month by Maersk. Hyundai’s engine equipment division (HHI-EMD) will construct the engines, which might be able to operating on inexperienced methanol, in Korea.
“The adoption of methanol propulsion is gaining pace, behind which there are several drivers,” mentioned Bjarne Foldager, senior vice chairman and head of two-stroke enterprise at MAN Energy Solutions. “Crucially, MAN B&W methanol engines are available and proven with the first engines having already entered service back in 2016. Additionally, as a fuel, methanol can be carbon-neutral when produced from renewable energy sources and biogenic CO2. The production capacity for this green methanol is currently increasing significantly; it is also liquid at ambient conditions, which simplifies tank design and minimizes costs. Finally, our methanol engine only require a fuel-supply pressure of just 13 bar and a number of manufacturers already offer such fuel-supply systems today.”
“We currently have a total order book for 78 ME-LGIM engines, of which 24 are firm orders for G95-variants,” mentioned Thomas S. Hansen, head of promotion and buyer help at MAN Energy Solutions. “In addition, 19 of our 50-bore variants are already on the water and have accumulated more than 140,000 running hours on methanol alone. As a fuel, the future looks promising for methanol and we fully expect its uptake to encompass around 30% of all dual-fuel engine orders in just a few years from now.”
THE MAN B&W ME-LGIM ENGINE
Developed for operation on methanol in addition to standard gas the ME-LGIM dual-fuel engine is predicated on the corporate’s confirmed ME-series, with its roughly 5,000 engines in service, and works in response to the Diesel precept. When working on inexperienced methanol, the engine gives carbon-neutral operatiom of enormous service provider vessels.
MAN developed the ME-LGI engine in response to curiosity from the delivery world in working on options to gas oil with the intention to attain decarbonization targets. Methanol carriers have already operated at sea for a few years utilizing the engine, and, consequently, the ME-LGIM has a confirmed observe file providing confirmed reliability and excessive fuel-efficiency.
