China State Shipbuilding company (CSSC) SunRui Marine Environment Engineering has signed a contract for six marine LNG fuel gas supply system (FGSS) with Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (DSIC).
The FGSS will be delivered in 2023, for six newbuilding 16000 TEU LNG powered container vessels. The vessels were ordered by one of the world’s largest container companies and designed to be equipped with the largest WinGD low-speed dual-fuel engines.
LNG is widely considered as one of the most promising alternative fuels for marine industry. In recent years, with successive release of new regulations, shipowners and operators are facing increasing pressure on minimising their environmental footprint. SunRui, as a subsidiary and research institute of CSSC, has realised the plight of marine industry and started own research and development from 2017. With five years’ of efforts, SunRui has mastered core technologies of FGSS, including system principle design, LNG tank design, cryogenic analysis, system simulation, prototype construction and etc. After rounds of evaluations during FGSS selection of the newbuilding 16000 TEU container project, SunRui Gaslink FGSS has won the trust and recognition from both DSIC and owner with its reliable performance.
Using advanced DIGITAL-TWINS technology, SunRui has developed its own FGSS simulation platform. The platform digitalises the physical parameters and system models of the entire FGSS, setting up a twin-system in the computer. With the platform, the technicians can not only simulate the system’s full specification and operation during design stage, but also commissioning and crew training process. Moreover, SunRui has built its own land-based FGSS testing facility in Yantai China, for combination of research, simulation and actual operation. The prototype test results have been acknowledged and approved by the major system users including shipowners and shipyards, under the witness of Class societies in 2021.
SunRui is able to offer efficient aftersales services worldwide. In addition to the already established spare parts warehouse centres in Germany, Singapore, Japan, USA and UAE, SunRui is now making plans for expanding the FGSS’s spare parts warehouse to more countries, to provide better services to clients.
