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Tech Files

Latest Products & Technologies jector performance, and its advanced test- ing capabilities makes it the ideal choice for engine makes, like MaK, Caterpillar,

Deutz, Wärtsilä and MAN gensets.

Nexus Energy Zero

Emissions PowerPack

Nexus Energy supplied its PowerPack to a pilot project taking place in the sea-

Aircraft Carrier Gets

AIP for Ammonia-Fueled port of Dordrecht, a project where Van 3D-Printed Valve Manifold

Oord, in cooperation with ZEDHub,

Ammonia Bunkering Vessel

HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding in-

Smart Delta Drechtsteden, the Munici- An Approval-in-Principle (AiP) cer- stalled the ? rst valve manifold assembly ti? cate for an ammonia-fueled ammo- created by additive manufacturing tech- nia bunkering vessel designed through nology on a new construction aircraft the collaboration of Nippon Yusen Ka- carrier. NNS continues to integrate ad- bushiki Kaisha (NYK) and its partners. ditive manufacturing, also known as 3D

Seatrium, through its wholly-owned printing, into the shipbuilding process. subsidiary, LMG Marine, provided en-

The use of certi? ed 3D-printed parts gineering for the vessel’s design, which has the potential to accelerate construc- will now be submitted to the Maritime tion and delivery of vessels to the U.S. and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA)

Navy by cutting lead times and improv- ing manufacturing quality for critical pality of Dordrecht and Port of Rotter- for evaluation.

dam, assessed the potential of a fully components. The valve manifold assem- electric dredging operation. During the bly, a specialized assembly that allows test, Paans Van Oord demonstrated the distribution of a single source of ? uid to operation of its fully electric crane ves- multiple points on the ship, is installed sel, Christiaan P, which had its engines in a pump room on Gerald R. Ford-class replaced with electric motors and crane aircraft carrier Enterprise (CVN 80). The replaced with an electric model. For the assembly, is approximately 5 feet long pilot project, the vessel was out? tted with and 1,000 pounds.

mobile battery systems of 870kWh.

New Fuel Injector Test Unit AIP for Lique? ed for 4-Stroke Engines

Hydrogen Tank Tech

DNV awarded an AiP to HD Korea

Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (HD KSOE) for its vacuum-insulated large-scale lique? ed hydrogen tank. A challenges in developing large scale LH2 storage is achieving and maintaining vac- uum insulation in large tanks. HD KSOE have addressed

Chris-Marine launched its latest inno- this by creating vation, the VPU 1600, a fuel injector test a new method unit for 4-stroke engines, manufactured that signi? cantly at its facility in Denmark. The test unit is reduces the time designed to ef? ciently assess the leakage, needed to cre- opening pressure, and spray pattern of fuel ate a vacuum, injectors, ensuring optimal engine perfor- an essential part mance. VPU 1600 is designed to deliver a of making larger reliable, intuitive solution for verifying in- tanks viable. www.marinelink.com 43

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