Afalafa expansion of the industry's most advanced ship gas combustion test center
Cutting test and training center in Aalborg Denmark Alfa Alfa Laval, and the shipbuilding industry customers in the future will get more and more fuel experience.
Afalafa expansion of the industry's most advanced ship gas combustion test center
According to the Alfa Laval ship business President Peter Leifland said that in March 1st, the center of Alfa Laval conducted a large-scale expansion and re opened, the center of the new area of 1350 square meters will be mainly for fuel gas, will be the most advanced shipbuilding industry gas burning test center. "We see tremendous changes in the shipping industry, and the increasingly stringent emission regulations have prompted many of our customers to shift from traditional fuels to LNG and other alternative fuels. As a supplier, we must support our customers, no matter what the customer chooses."
Test center of Alfa Laval before opening in 2014, the area is only 250 square meters, is a land full size room, the center is equipped with various Alfa Laval products, with a 2 MW power company Mann four stroke marine engine is integrated. Many important clients of the ship domain center has afalafa development of the bridgehead, including exhaust gas cleaning, ballast water treatment, steam production and clean fuel etc..
Currently, the new center has increased by 1100 cubic meters, mainly focused on gas and other alternative fuels combustion technology. The new facility includes a burner system, an inert gas system, and a core facility, a 23 metre high, complete gas combustion device (GCU), used by the LNG carrier, to burn excess evaporative gas. The device can burn 4.5 tons of gas per hour, similar to the capacity of the gas transport capacity of 174 thousand cubic meters.
It is reported that the Alfa Laval company has many gas equipment product portfolio, including the dual fuel boiler system, FCM system, One Gas booster Smit inert gas system and the set of heat exchangers, the future, the company will also have more service plan.
Afalafa vice president Lars Skytte Jorgensen boiler product center pointed out that the current "hundreds of ships using LNG fuel in the next 15 years, there will be thousands of ships using LNG as fuel. It is clear that environmental regulations have brought about this change, but this change is largely dependent on advanced technology, many of which have yet to be developed."