March 6, 2012
Electronically-Controlled Gas Injection Marine Diesel Engine (ME-GI)Demonstrational Operation to be Held
Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. (“MES” with president Mr. Yasuhiko Katoh) will hold a demonstrational operation for electronically-controlled gas injection diesel engine (“ME-GI”) in cooperation with Mitsui OSK Lines, Ltd. (with president Mr. Koichi Muto) in the spring of 2013.
This demonstrational operation will be carried out by converting the latest and proven electronically controlled diesel engine, which is ordered to us, into the ME-GI engine temporarily.
LNG is drawing attention nowadays as a new fuel for driving ships in terms of environment, and the ME-GI, which is the combination of gas injection technology and electronic control technology, is also drawing attention as marine propulsion engine.
MES completed a generating plant with slow-speed gas injection diesel engine (GIDE) in its Chiba Works in 1994 and started power generating business using slow-speed gas burning engine with an eye toward the application of such engine to the ships. Since then, we have accumulated a lot of operation knowhow for gas burning diesel engine.
In July last year, we adopted ME-GI as the engine to our newly developed LNG carrier “Double Eco MAX” for the market to achieve 30% reduction of fuel cost and CO2 emission.
The demonstration this time will prove our established integrated control system including a gas supply system for shop trial facility, and will contribute to our sales and production capability of ME-GI itself and of ships installed with ME-GI, to our customers.
This demonstrational operation will be carried out by converting the latest and proven electronically controlled diesel engine, which is ordered to us, into the ME-GI engine temporarily.
LNG is drawing attention nowadays as a new fuel for driving ships in terms of environment, and the ME-GI, which is the combination of gas injection technology and electronic control technology, is also drawing attention as marine propulsion engine.
MES completed a generating plant with slow-speed gas injection diesel engine (GIDE) in its Chiba Works in 1994 and started power generating business using slow-speed gas burning engine with an eye toward the application of such engine to the ships. Since then, we have accumulated a lot of operation knowhow for gas burning diesel engine.
In July last year, we adopted ME-GI as the engine to our newly developed LNG carrier “Double Eco MAX” for the market to achieve 30% reduction of fuel cost and CO2 emission.
The demonstration this time will prove our established integrated control system including a gas supply system for shop trial facility, and will contribute to our sales and production capability of ME-GI itself and of ships installed with ME-GI, to our customers.