Alfa Laval Tumba AB: Energy Efficiency, Application Leadership & Integrated Solutions - Maritime Executive

Posted - Monday, September 17, 2012 - Maritime Executive

At this year’s SMM, Alfa Laval’s customer and press seminar included a presentation entitled “Saving energy and reducing CO2 emissions”. Niclas Dahl, Alfa Laval Marine & Diesel Equipment, discussed the shipping industry’s future fuel options with a focus on keeping operating costs at a viable level while complying with environmental regulations. René Fich Jespersen, Alfa Laval Aalborg, presented the latest Aalborg waste heat recovery products and showed the impressive fuel savings and reductions in CO2 emissions they offer when installed onboard a typical container ship.
Onboard ships throughout the world, Alfa Laval products installed in engine rooms save energy, reduce CO2 emissions and prolong engine lifetimes. The fuel treatment line, from the settling tank to the engine is one of Alfa Laval’s key focus areas and the company continuously monitors developments in the marine fuels market.
Fuel trend drivers
With increasingly stringent local and global environmental regulations, ship owners and operators are currently reviewing their future options in terms of fuel compliance strategies and new fuels are being discussed. The result is likely to be the use of lower and more variable fuel quality, with more cat fines. Thus, there will be an even sharper focus on fuel handling and cleaning efficiency, and advanced fuel treatment equipment will become even more important.
A main driver is, of course, the need to reduce ship operation costs in order to remain profitable and competitive. Here the focus is on fuel efficiency, fuel flexibility, equipment life-cycle costs and cost of ownership.
Equally important is to find solutions that will comply with new legislation. The focus in this case is on preparing fuel systems for handling multiple fuel types onboard. Other factors are fuel availability, deteriorating fuel quality, reliability and safety.
Future options
Of the main future options for ship owners and operators, Alfa Laval believes that the three most likely to dominate in the short term are: continue with HFO and add exhaust gas cleaning equipment (scrubbers); continue with HFO and complement with distillates (dual fuel); or blending fuel in order to meet environmental legislation.

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