Shipping Giant To Use LNG To Power Ships

[tay]

Container shipping giant CMA CGM [CMACG.UL] said on Tuesday that it would use liquefied natural gas (LNG) to power nine extra-large vessels it has ordered, in a first for an industry grappling with how to comply with tougher rules on emissions.

“By choosing LNG, the CMA CGM Group goes beyond current and future regulations that limit the sulfur cap to 0.5 percent (content in fuel) in 2020.”

The new rules will reduce the maximum sulfur content in fuels from 3.5 percent currently.

Compared to heavy fuel oil, LNG would allow ships to reduce sulfur emissions by 99 percent, carbon dioxide emissions by 25 percent and the overall environmental footprint by 20 percent, CMA CGM said.

The group had said previously it would have to consider the need to develop an LNG supply chain in its choice of fuel for the future giant ships.

CMA CGM has in the past year signed agreements with French energy firms Engie and Total to develop LNG supplies for shipping.

Its memorandum of understanding with Total called on the oil and gas producer to become a multi-fuel supplier to CMA CGM, providing LNG as well as fuel oil with 0.5 percent sulfur content.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...hooses-lng-to-power-new-vessels-idUSKBN1D7128

 

[petros]

Why not sails?

 

[lone wolf]

Not going that way

 

[Curious Cdn]

Why not sails?

LNG ought to be just about as clean.

I thought that an oil industry schill such as yourself would be happy about it?

Can't flog that Bunker C anymore, eh?

 

[Durry]

Pretty big difference in cost and increase in handling costs as well.

 

[Twin_Moose]

I wonder how much power and fuel efficiency they will lose with the conversion

 

[captain morgan]

Container shipping giant CMA CGM [CMACG.UL] said on Tuesday that it would use liquefied natural gas (LNG) to power nine extra-large vessels it has ordered, in a first for an industry grappling with how to comply with tougher rules on emissions.

Cool

I wonder how much power and fuel efficiency they will lose with the conversion

Probably not as much as you'd think

 

[petros]

LNG ought to be just about as clean.

I thought that an oil industry schill such as yourself would be happy about it?

Can't flog that Bunker C anymore, eh?

I saw this coming 25 years ago. Didn't you?

 

[captain morgan]

I'm shocked that there isn't a huge outrage to the carbon molecules in the CH4 that will irreversibly contaminate the Earth and strike a blow against Gaia

 

[Twin_Moose]

Cool



Probably not as much as you'd think

It was a pretty big drop off from both power and efficiency when they were converting vehicles over to propane and NG, it only lasted a couple of years before the movement was abandoned

 

[captain morgan]

Could be.... I would have to assume that the principals of the project in the OP have addressed this in some fashion.

 

[Twin_Moose]

Could be.... I would have to assume that the principals of the project in the OP have addressed this in some fashion.

I agree possibly using it in it's liquefied state

 

[EagleSmack]

Why not solar?

 

[captain morgan]

Why not solar?

With all that space on the deck, why there would be plenty of room for a wind farm and the faster they went, the faster the turbines would spin creating a virtual perpetual motion machine.

That or they could build a small damn on the deck and using sea water, run a hydro plant

... I really ought to think about patenting these solutions

 

[petros]

It was a pretty big drop off from both power and efficiency when they were converting vehicles over to propane and NG, it only lasted a couple of years before the movement was abandoned

Direct port NG injectors. Conversions basically chucks NG into the venturi until it runs.

With all that space on the deck, why there would be plenty of room for a wind farm and the faster they went, the faster the turbines would spin creating a virtual perpetual motion machine.

That or they could build a small damn on the deck and using sea water, run a hydro plant

... I really ought to think about patenting these solutions

The reefer sea cans are massive emissions sources on board a freighter.

 

[Colpy]

LNG ships often use LNG BOG (boil off gas) to provide energy for propulsion, backed up by heavy oil if BOG is not enough.

 

[EagleSmack]

With all that space on the deck, why there would be plenty of room for a wind farm and the faster they went, the faster the turbines would spin creating a virtual perpetual motion machine.

That or they could build a small damn on the deck and using sea water, run a hydro plant

... I really ought to think about patenting these solutions

They could use battery power. I mean the labor for mining cobalt is already free.

 

[captain morgan]

My heart is heavy knowing that we don't have fair trade cobalt