Jan De Nul Group and ABC Engines have introduced a partnership for hybrid marine engines. Each firms signed the order for 4 7200 kW engines and one 1800 kW engine that may run on (bio)diesel, HVO, and methanol. These progressive engines will guarantee propulsion of the latest Jan De Nul Group’s cable-laying vessel, Fleeming Jenkin. Utilizing inexperienced methanol, the engines are additionally local weather impartial and because of the distinctive mixture with the ULEv expertise in addition they meet the strict Stage V normal for particulate matter and Euro 6 normal for nitrogen.
Jan De Nul Group and ABC Engines are accelerating in the direction of a extra sustainable transport business with the event of those engines. Each firms tackle a pioneering function to considerably scale back dangerous emissions within the transport business and to contribute to a considerable optimistic impression on the local weather and the well being of man, fauna, and flora.
An essential step Jan De Nul Group is taking in making its fleet extra sustainable is switching to renewable fuels, resembling methanol. However considerably diminished emissions of dangerous greenhouse gasses, methanol additionally presents the benefit of being already obtainable in a couple of hundred ports around the globe. So as to additional form the interior sustainability technique and to completely align with the renewable world economic system, Jan De Nul Group enters into this partnership with ABC Engines, which leads the best way within the subject of marine engines operating on different fuels, such because the promising methanol.
Jan Van de Velde, Director Newbuilding at Jan De Nul Group, stated: “The selection for ABC is predicated on a optimistic collaboration and shared imaginative and prescient of a sustainable future. Our cooperation ends in high-quality engines that run on renewable gas and are tailored to our vessels and desires of our prospects. We put together our fleet for the long run, obtain a milestone inside our sustainability objectives and above all provide a optimistic contribution to the local weather and well being of man and animal.”
Tim Berckmoes, CEO at ABC Engines, added: “Jan De Nul and ABC are two family-owned firms that all the time deal with the long run and use progressive applied sciences to grasp the vitality transition each domestically and internationally. Because of the long-standing belief of our prospects, we will proceed to innovate, produce, and put money into Flanders. This allows us to broaden our export actions and additional develop our manufacturing business.”
ABC will provide 4 7200 kW engines and one 1800 kW engine for Jan De Nul Group’s latest cable-laying vessel, Fleeming Jenkin. These medium-speed engines can run on each (bio)diesel and methanol. By switching to sustainable fuels in com-bination with the distinctive ULEv expertise, this new, next-generation cable-laying vessel will carry a couple of vital discount of dangerous emissions resembling carbon dioxide, sulfur oxide, hydrocarbons, particulate matter, and nitric oxide (NOX). By doing so, it meets the strictest requirements when it comes to NOX emissions onshore (Euro 6) and when it comes to particulate matter emissions offshore (Stage V).
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