View of the first-generation male B&W ME-LGIM engine aboard the Mari Jones, the dual-fuel, methanol-powered vessel supplied to Waterfront Shipping in 2016. As can be seen, the engine space is visibly spick-and-span (photo politeness Marinvest).
Swedish ship administration business Marinvest reports that its Mari Jone and also Mari Boyle, 2 of the initial vessels powered by dual-fuel ME-LGIM (-Liquid Gas Injection Methanol) engines have actually each passed 10,000 running hrs on methanol. Additionally, Marinvest’s incorporated ME-LGI-powered fleet has actually passed an advancing total amount of 50,000 operating hrs on methanol.
The 2 49,999 dwt vessels are taken care of on timecharters for Waterfront Shipping, a subsidiary of Vancouver, Canada, headquartered Methanex, the globe’s biggest manufacturer and also distributor of methanol. They run worldwide, offering a continuous circulation of methanol in between storage space terminals and also consumer plants.
Bjarne Foldager– Senior Vice President, Head of Two-Stroke Business at MALE Energy Solutions– stated: “The successful passing of this significant milestone is testament to the ME-LGI’s strong concept, and indeed the strength of our dual-fuel portfolio as a whole. With well over 250 sales within MAN Energy Solutions’ entire portfolio of low-speed, dual-fuel engines – all running on clean fuels such as methanol, LPG or LNG – this new achievement stands testament to our leadership within a critical market segment.”
Ren é Sejer Laursen– Sales & & Promotion Manager, MALE Energy Solutions– stated: “When introducing methanol as a two-stroke marine fuel, we encountered the usual teething problems, including addressing the liner lubrication because of methanol’s potentially corrosive behavior. However, the service experience gathered after 50,000 hours of cumulative operation has ironed all such problems out and the ME-LGI engines are now running smoothly with no maintenance issues. In fact, they are even showing an improvement in fuel efficiency.”
MALE Energy Solutions created the ME-LGIM dual-fuel engine for procedure on methanol, hefty gas oil (HFO), aquatic diesel oil (MDO), or aquatic gas oil (MGO). The engine is based upon the business’s tested ME-series, with its roughly 5,000 engines in solution, and also functions according to the diesel concept as methanol is a low-flashpoint, fluid gas. When operating on methanol, the ME-LGI utilizes HFO, MDO, or MGO as a pilot gas, substantially decreasing discharges of carbon dioxide, NOx and also SOx, and also gets rid of methanol slip. Additionally, any kind of functional button in between methanol and also various other gas is smooth.
Tests on the engine, when working on methanol, have actually taped the very same or a somewhat much better performance contrasted to traditional HFO-burning engines.
