Report: MAGALOG - Marine Fuel Gas Logistics

Website: www.eu-magalog.eu

Project Leaflet (260 Kb PDF)

The object of the MAGALOG project is to create a small scale LNG supply network in the Baltic Sea Region and to promote the development of LNG as a clean fuel for ships.

The first small-scale LNG terminals for shipping will be established in MAGALOG's twin city of Lübeck in Germany. Investment research will be conducted in Swinoujscie, Poland, and three other Baltic Sea Region port cities.

Benefits of LNG as a fuel for ships:

• 100% less particle emissions
• 100% less sulphur oxide emissions
• 70% less nitrogen oxide emissions
• 25% less greenhouse gas emissions
• No particle filters
• No NOx reduction technology required

Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) as a fuel?

Internal combustion engines have been run on gas from their early beginnings. Even today such engines still need carburettors or injectors to gasify fuel. Cars can also be run on Auto Gas (LPG) or on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG). LPG consists of Propane and/or Butane, and CNG of methane. Both gases are known as a "green fuels" because they reduce the CO² emission load by 20-25%. Both gases are stored at high pressure to reduce transport and storage volumes.

Natural gas can also be reduced in volume by a factor of about 600 by cooling it down to -163° C at atmospheric pressure. It is then named LNG or Liquefied Natural Gas. LNG is not inflammable when in a liquid state. The liquefaction process removes impurities such as water, dust and heavy hydrocarbons that may increase the environmental load. LNG is therefore, much cleaner than normal natural gas.

The shipping industry has known LNG for decades as a bulk commodity transported by large LNG tankers around the world. Until recently, only a few LNG-tankers used to burn off gas for fuel and combustion purposes. For some years now a number of forward-looking companies in Norway have been paving the way by pioneering the use of LNG as a fuel for ships engaged on regular coastal or short sea shipping services. Engine manufacturers are prepared for the challenge of LNG fuelled engines. LNG engines and dual fuel engines are on the market.

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