Yanmar’s 6EY26DF double gas engine
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018– Diesel engine maker Yanmar just recently provided 2 6EY26DF dual-fuel industrial aquatic engines for a brand-new yank unfinished at Japan’s Kanagawa Dockyard Co., Ltd.
Equipped with double gas engines, the yank will certainly have the capability to make use of both hefty gas oil (HFO) and also melted gas (LNG) as gas.
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines,Ltd (MOL) will certainly take distribution of the yank when it is finished in February 2019 with the tugboat anticipated to begin procedure in April 2019.
Yanmar has actually additionally obtained orders for the LNG gas storage tanks, barrier storage tanks, and also gas burning gadgets that compose the LNG gas feed systems for the engines.
The yank will certainly be run by Nihon Tug-Boat Co, Ltd. with Osaka Gas Co., Ltd. supplying the LNG gas. This is the very first time that a LNG-fueled watercraft has actually been built in Japan, based upon the IGF Code.
Yanmar remains to exert to lower ecological worries, establish eco-friendly tidy aquatic engines, and also offer maximum remedies to consumer requirements.
