Latest Equipment News – Page 166
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NewsInflatable sail to be tested on French Ro-Ro Containership
Michelin’s WISAMO inflatable wing sail system will be tested on a Compagnie Maritime Nantaise - MN ro-ro starting from the end of 2022.
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NewsModelling suggests afterburner required for CO2 capture on carrier ship
Researchers from SINTEF Industry and Brevik Engineering have conducted an energy assessment of a carbon capture system onboard a CO2 carrier and concluded that an afterburner would be required to augment the thermal energy available from the exhaust gas.
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NewsNew hybrid electric jet system offers low-noise propulsion
Italian companies FPT Industrial and Sealence have developed a hybrid electric jet propulsion system for the leisure and workboat markets which externally resembles an aviation jet.
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NewsReports of propeller shaft bearing damage increasing
DNV reports an increase in reported propeller shaft bearing damage on older vessels, typically above 10 years of age, operating with environmentally acceptable lubricants (EALs).
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NewsNew Railship For Sicilian Link
Despite the continual waxing and waning of the plan for a bridge across the Strait of Messina, reinvestment in the train ferry connection has gained momentum. November’s delivery of the 147m newbuild Iginia, modelled closely on a vessel completed in 2013 to serve the link between the southern tip of ...
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NewsViking Debut in Expedition Cruise Sector
Norway-based VARD has delivered its largest vessel to date in the shape of the 205m, polar-going cruiseship Viking Octantis. Handed over just before Christmas at the group’s Soviknes yard near Aalesund, the diesel-electric newbuild has signalled Viking Cruises’ entry into the expedition-styled segment of the market.
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NewsPartnership will capture CO2 to produce methanol feedstock for Power-to-X fuels
California-based Vertimass and European Energy have completed a Letter of Intent to integrate technologies for capturing carbon dioxide and converting it into hydrocarbon products around the world.
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NewsChevron HDAX 9700 engine oil gains unique approval from MAN
Chevron Marine Lubricant’s low sulphated ash trunk piston engine oil Chevron HDAX 9700 has become the first lubricant to gain time-unrestricted approval for use with MAN Energy Solutions’ four-stroke engines running on either LNG or distillate fuels (with a sulphur content of up to 0.10%).
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NewsNew methane slip technology expected on MOL coal carrier by the end of 2023
Hitachi Zosen, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and Yanmar Power Technology are cooperating on engine and catalyst developments to reduce methane slip from LNG fuelled vessels.
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NewsTECO 2030 signs green hydrogen MoU with Gen2 Energy
TECO 2030 and Gen2 Energy have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate on projects involving green hydrogen for fuel cells.
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NewsA.P. Moller - Maersk accelerates Net Zero emission targets
A.P. Moller - Maersk aims to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions in 2040 – one decade ahead of its initial 2050 ambition and has also set associated 2030 targets.
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NewsLiquid Wind partners with Ørsted to produce e-methanol in Sweden
Ørsted will acquire a 45% ownership share in what could become the world’s first large-scale sustainable e-methanol project.
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NewsSchottel to propel new LNG bunkering vessel
The scope of the delivery is two EcoPellers and two TranverseThrusters
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NewsABS Publishes Guide for Methanol-Fuelled Vessels
ABS has published a Guide for Methanol and Ethanol Fueled Vessels setting out classification criteria for associated equipment and systems.
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NewsNew LNG tank design saves space on bunkering vessel
Titan LNG has developed a new LNG tank design that overcomes regulatory limitations set for inland waterway vessels and will save space on the company’s latest bunker vessel newbuilding.
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NewsYanmar looks to a hydrogen-fuelled future
Hydrogen is becoming an ever more feasible fuel in the maritime sector
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NewsSembcorp Marine receives AiP for ammonia bunkering vessel design
Sembcorp Marine has received Approval in Principle (AiP) from ABS for the conceptual design of an ammonia bunkering vessel.
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NewsFincantieri Bay Shipbuilding starts building the largest USA-built LNG barge
Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding has started building the largest LNG bunkering barge ever built in the USA and expects it to be completed in late 2023.
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News3D-printed fuel injection nozzle could reduce NOx emissions
MAN-ES_RCC-1_PEOPLE_EGL5234_web Source: DTU A fuel injection nozzle produced by additive manufacturing techniques has been tested one of MAN Energy Solutions’ test engines at Research Centre Copenhagen.
