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LNG ship fuel systems update

  Joris van Kreij, Global Sales Manager – LNG Ship Fueling Solutions, Chart Industries presentation during the  2015 GREEN4SEA Forum   A typical LNG ship fuel installation consists of a tank with integrated ‘coldbox’ which is an air-tight enclosure of all the plumbing, valves, evaporation equipment and instrumentation attached to the tank. The advantage of such configuration is that the gas-hazardous space is limited to this coldbox only, instead of the whole tank compartment. Insulation of the tank is of high importance to minimize heat leak into the tank, warming up the LNG. The more heat leak occurs, the faster the pressure will rise and the shorter the tank holding time (time before the safety valve opens) becomes.  You are aware of the current and future emissions regulation, no need to talk further on that. It is cleaner operation of engines. Fuel cost savings, on specific cases. It is not always the case, but obviously US shipowners mainly are very much aware of that. Low noise operation and it eliminates the risk of oil spills. What we could add to this is your image improvement that is also sometimes a driver for a shipowner to switch to LNG. We have seen that in...

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