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“Compliance is always in focus, but customers have a broad spectrum of other requirements.”

Erik Haveman,

Sales Director,

Alfa Laval Exhaust Gas Cleaning sure the AFEM performed properly and (LF), was installed on tankers built at that the inert gas system only produced Minaminippon in Japan and Hyundai the necessary amount of inert gas during Mipo Dockyard in Korea. The vessels’ of? oading. This made it possible to great- three owners, MOL, Westfal-Larsen and ly reduce the operational expenses related Marinvest, have since logged more than to inert gas production aboard the ship. 4500 running hours with the FCM One

For vessels with Smit Combustion sys- LF in the past three years.

tems already installed, the AFEM will New booster developments are al- soon be available as a retro? t installed ready underway. MAN Diesel & Turbo and commissioned by Alfa Laval. For is currently modifying the ME-LGI en- new inert gas systems, the AFEM will be gine series to use LPG as an alternative available as an added option at the time fuel, and Alfa Laval is again preparing of the original installation. the booster system. After more than one year of development, the ? rst Alfa Laval

Methanol Boosters

FCM One LPG will be tested at MAN

In 2013, Alfa Laval was selected by Diesel & Turbo’s Copenhagen test site in

MAN Diesel & Turbo to deliver Low- Denmark.

Flashpoint Supply Systems (LFSS) for the world’s ? rst methanol-fuelled tankers.

The methanol booster systems performed extremely well on methanol-fuelled tank- ers with ME-LGI engines and now Alfa

Laval is further supporting MAN Diesel & Turbo with methanol booster technol- ogy as the MAN engine series is further developed to work with LPG.

The two companies had been collabo-

Solutions that safeguard rating broadly on fuel conditioning for

MAN Diesel &Turbo’s new two-stroke

FUHZDQGSDVVHQJHUV diesel engines with Lique? ed Gas In- jection (LGI) technology since 2012.

However, when the engine maker was contracted to equip nine vessels with methanol-burning ME-LGI engines, methanol came quickly into focus: “MAN Diesel & Turbo has worked closely with Alfa Laval in development projects like Exhaust Gas Recirculation,

Hammar H20 where Alfa Laval PureNOx technol- hydrostatic release unit Remote Release Systems MOB/Life buoy system /LIH-DFNHW,QÁDWRUV ogy cleans the circulation water,” said

Søren H. Jensen, Vice President and

Our mission is to save lives at sea.

Head of R&D, Two-Stroke Business at

Whether you are a ship owner, designer, builder or onboard safety +DPPDUSURGXFWVDUHQRWRQO\GHYHORSHGWRLQFUHDVHVDIHW\EXW

MAN Diesel & Turbo. “That, together

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Welcome to learn more at cmhammar.com

The ? nished booster technology, the

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