Cutting edge fuel vessel supply

MAN Cryo signed the contract with Yantai CIMC Raffles Shipyard for the delivery of systems that will be fitted to the Wallenius Marine 6,500 pure car carriers going on charter to Volkswagen.

“This represents yet another world-first for MAN Cryo, where the boil-off gas will be sent to the low methane-slip ME-GI via a high-pressure, boil-off-gas compressor. Due to the installed shaft generator, this further reduces the running hours on the auxiliary engines,” said Henrik Malm, managing director at MAN Energy Solutions, Sweden and Finland.

Ground-breaking

The MAN FGSS will send boil-off gas to the ME-GI main engine via a BOG compressor, which minimises methane slip.

Scope of delivery includes port and starboard-side bunkering stations, a 2,300 m3 LNG storage tank, tank connection space with low-pressure vaporiser, BOG heater and two LNG pumps and high-pressure gas-handling equipment.

MAN Cryo willl also supply a boil-off gas management system, including one high-pressure compressor, on-board nitrogen-generation system and the control system as well as gas-detection system.

The FGSSs for the vessels will be delivered during 2023. 

MAN Cryo supplied the world’s first LNG fuel-gas system for the Glutra ferry in Norway in 1999, a vessel that is still operational to this day.

More recently in 2013, MAN Cryo supplied the world’s first bunker vessel, the SeaGas, with operations in Stockholm, Sweden.