Introduction to ME-GI engines

(Dual Fuel)and reliquefaction

plants

INTRODUCTION

Future fuels for ships is a subject under.

Much discussion these days .It seems
That the decisin to invest in dualfuelled vessels will be based primarily
on the ownersexpectations
to.the.future.development in gas and
fuel oil prices in combination with the
emission control regulations.

HISTORY
In the early 1990s. In 1994, The first
GI engine,a12K80MC-GI-S, was put
into service on a power plant at Chiba,
Tokyo, Japan. The Chiba engine has
operated as a peak load plant for
almost 20,000 hours on high-pressure
gas.In 2003 the engine was converted
to kerosene operation due to the
prices on the gas fuel.

ME-GI CONCEPT

Ventilation system

Sealing oil system

Inert gas

Control and safety system

OPERATING DESCRIPTION

FOUR-STROKE
DUAL-FUEL
ENGINE
Gas fuel is supplied during the intake
stroke of a diesel engine, and the
exhaust emissions vary according to
the proportions of diesel fuel and gas
fuel in the total fuel . Because the
concentration of CO2 in the exhaust
gas depends on the composition of
the fuel, it can be reduced by up to
about 25% according to the
proportions of diesel fuel and gas fuel.

TWO-STROKE
DUAL-FUEL
ENGINE
Because intake air is used for
scavenging in a two-stroke engine, it is
not allowed to mix the gas fuel with
the intake air. Instead, the gas fuel is
injected into the compressed air in the
same way as diesel fuel, and then
ignition is achieved by injecting fuel via
the micro-pilot fuel injector (see Fig. 9).
Because this results in diffusion
combustion, as with diesel fuel, it can
reduce CO2 emissions by 20% or more,
with a low level of unburned gas and
CO emission and without knocking.
However, the level of NOx emissions is
high due to the same reason.

INJECTION SYSTEM

 PRINCIPAL
FEATURES

High-pressure gas supply

Fuel oil supply (pilot oil)

Control oil supply for actuation of

gas injection.valves

Sealing oil supply

INJECTION VALVES
Fig shows the cylinder cover design
for a two-stroke dual-fuel engine. In
order to pressurize gas fuel injected
into the compressed air up to 30 MPa,
natural gas that has been pressurized
in liquid form is vaporized and then
injected into the cylinder. And because
there is no risk of knocking, the switch
between diesel fuel and gas fuel can
be performed comparatively easily
and quickly.
One proposal for improving the level of
NOx emissions for two-stroke dual-fuel
engines is to use a low-pressure gas
fuel injection engine that can operate
with a lean pre-mixed fuel mixture
despite being a two-stroke engine.

SAFETY FEATURES

ENGINE OPERATION MODES

RELIQUEFACTION PLANTS

ECOREL
RELIQUEFACTION
PLANT
CONFIGURATION

Cryostars proven EcoRel

reliquefaction plant
consists of a nitrogen-filled
refrigeration loop with a
compander as the main
component

THE HIGHPRESSURE PUMP

AND VAPORIZER
SYSTEM

CONCLUSIONS
Having emerged as a viable candidate for achieving environmental
performance, future energy transformation, and the reliability demanded
of marine engines, dual-fuel engines have come to be recognized for their
potential for meeting the requirements imposed by society. However,
number of unsolved problems and technical challenges still remain in the
way of their use as marine engines, as a developer of engine technology,
We keeps making efforts enabling the engines to achieve a level of
maturity that will make them worthy of trust.