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WinGD Flexible Injector Concept

WinGD has invested in fuel research with the development of a ? exible injection system. In a whitepaper ‘Flexible Injector to

Advance Alternative Fuels Research’, the engine designers describe how the concept will play a crucial role in its investigations into low- carbon liquid fuels and engine injection concepts to harness them.

The system features an adjustable needle to allow for the injection

Eidesvik Offshore of lower density liquid fuels, including promising alcohol fuels like methanol and ethanol, as well as conventional fuels including heavy

Ammonia-Fuel PSV fuel oil and marine diesel oil. At present there is great uncertainty around the fuels that shipping will use to reduce GHG emissions.

Equinor signed a deal with Eidesvik Offshore

Several candidates are unconventional liquid fuels including alcohols to test the use of carbon-free ammonia as a fuel and synthetic diesel. These will require different injection strate- aboard the Viking Energy platform supply ves- gies to LNG, for example, which is already used in WinGD’s X-DF sel. Equinor awarded Eidesvik Offshore a ? ve- engines. WinGD installed the fuel ? exible injector on its RTX-6 year contract with effect from April 2020, when engines in order to test ethanol combustion. Among other ? ndings - the current contract for the vessel expires. detailed in the whitepaper - the company con? rmed that ethanol fuel

The vessel will transport supplies to instal- (with a small amount of diesel injected as a pilot fuel) reduces the lations on the Norwegian continental shelf formation of NOx and smoke emissions.

(NCS).The project will test whether the technology can deliver 100 percent carbon-free power over long distances. The technology will be tested on the vessel from 2024.

According to the project plans ammonia will meet 60 to 70 percent of the power requirement on board for a test period of one year. Viking

Energy will still be able to use LNG as fuel, and the remaining power requirement will be met by battery. Equinor is part of the European WinGD’s fuel innovation project ShipFC, a consortium of 14 ? exible injector

European companies and institutions coordi- installation nated by NCE Maritime Cleantech. The main on RTX-6 Test partners of the ? ve-year research project are

Engine

NCE Maritime Cleantech, Eidesvik Offshore,

Wärtsilä, Prototech, and Equinor.

WinGD

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