Ammonia

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Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., a part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, has announced the beginning of demonstration tests of the ammonia gas abatement system (AGAS) at its testing facility at Nagasaki District MHI…

22nd August 2023

Mitsubishi Shipbuilding begins NH3 abatement system demonstration tests

22nd August 2023

AMMONIA

AMMONIA

Avance Gas has taken up an option for two 40,000 cbm LPG/ammonia carrier newbuildings with Nantong CIMC Sinopacific Offshore & Engineering (CIMC SOE). The dual-fuel newbuildings will be powered by engines capable of operating…

21st August 2023

Avance Gas takes up LPG-fuelled LPG/ammonia carrier options

21st August 2023

AMMONIA

AMMONIA

TB Global Technologies Ltd. (TBG), the Japanese cargo handling equipment specialist, has signed an agreement with NYK to jointly develop Japan’s first bunkering boom for ammonia, a device used to supply ammonia fuel between…

18th August 2023

NYK to collaborate in NH3 bunker boom project

18th August 2023

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

Mads Carsten Jespersen and a team of researchers from Technical University of Denmark (DTU) presented research into widening the operating limits of a spark-ignited engine operating on pure ammonia and confirmed that…

15th August 2023

Ammonia combustion without ignition improver demonstrated on single cylinder test engine

15th August 2023

AMMONIA

AMMONIA

Wallenius Wilhelmsen has ordered four 9,350 car equivalent unit (ceu) vessels from Jinling Shipyard in Jiangsu province, China. The vessels will be capable of operating on methanol as a fuel, and will be ammonia-ready. The order…

15th August 2023

Wallenius Wilhelmsen orders 4+8 methanol-fuelled PCTCs

15th August 2023

AMMONIA

AMMONIA

Global energy and commodity group, Mercuria and maritime innovator, ETA Shipping have joined forces on the construction of six state-of-the-art vessels designed with maximum efficiency in mind.

14th August 2023

New efficient vessel design for short sea shipping

14th August 2023

AMMONIA

AMMONIA

ClassNK has awarded an approval in principle (AiP) to Samsung Heavy Industries for an ammonia supply system design for oil tanker and container vessels.

14th August 2023

SHI ammonia fuel supply system receives AiP

14th August 2023

AMMONIA

AMMONIA

Dr Nicole Wermuth, research leader in combustion and fuels at LEC GmbH, presented results of an ammonia diesel dual-fuel combustion concept test at CIMAC 2023 highlighting the wide operating range achieved.

24th July 2023

Wide operating range demonstrated for ammonia combustion concepts

24th July 2023

AMMONIA

AMMONIA

At CIMAC 2023, Raphael Ryser, R&D principal engineer at Accelleron, discussed what changes customers can expect to be made to turbochargers for large engines operating on new fuels.

20th July 2023

New fuel adaptions to turbochargers will include layout and material changes

20th July 2023

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

WinGD has stated that it is on track to deliver the first X-DF-A dual fuel engine capable of operating on ammonia by Q1 2025, and expects the first vessel powered by X-DF-A…

18th July 2023

First NH3-fuelled X-DF-A engine to be delivered in Q1 2025

18th July 2023