According to a Matson investor presentation, the price of the improve of the Daniel Ok. Inouye to twin gas operation on LNG might be about $35 million
The massive information from Honolulu-headquartered Matson, Inc.(NYSE: MATX) firstly of this month was that it had positioned a $1 billion order for 3 LNG-fueled Aloha-class containerships at Philly Shipyard. Those ships won’t be delivered till 2026 and, meantime, Matson is upgrading its first two “LNG-ready” Aloha-class ships for twin gas operation on LNG. According to a Matson investor presentation, the price of the conversion of the primary of those, the three,600 TEU Daniel Ok. Inouye, might be about $35 million
A crucial a part of the upgrades is the gas gasoline provide system (FGSS) and earlier this 12 months Matson contracted Singapore-based C-LNG Solutions to produce the FGSS for the Inouye improve, which is being carried out in a Shanghai shipyard.
Under its contract, C-LNG will provide three 1,350 cubic meter kind C LNG gas tanks with in-tank pumps and tank gauging system, low-pressure vaporizer and buffer tank, glycol-water system, and N2 system.
C-LNG has contracted Norway’s TMC Compressors to ship the boil-off gasoline compressors for the gas gasoline provide system. According to TMC, its boil-off gasoline compressors can be utilized on each dual-fuel vessels, for instance LNG together with bunker oil, and single-fuel LNG vessels.
Onboard a vessel that makes use of LNG as gas, warmth from the environment will increase the temperature contained in the cooled down LNG gas tanks, inflicting liquid to evaporate. The gasoline generated from this is called boil-off gasoline. The system captures the boil-off gasoline from the LNG gas tanks onboard, compresses it with a TMC compressor and injects it into the principle engine as gas.
“By compressing the boil-off gas to the required pressure in order to supply it as fuel directly into the ship’s engine, you have an optimal system with regards to energy efficiency,” says Hans Petter Tanum, TMC’s director of gross sales and enterprise improvement.
