文档介绍：Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Technical Review Vol. 47 No. 3 (September 2010)
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Technology Trends and MHI Activities for LNG Carriers
- Diverse Shipbuilding and Marine Products in the LNG Supply Chain -
SAI HIRAMATSU*1 KAZUYOSHI HIRAOKA*1
YOSHIKAZU FUJINO*1 KENJI TSUMURA*1
With natural gas garnering greater attention as an energy option with low environmental
impact, shipbuilding and marine products in the liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply chain have
e increasingly diverse. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., (MHI) through a variety of
activities, has been introducing many products that meet customer needs. Taking a
long-term perspective, MHI continues to be active in the development of products that offer
dependability, economic efficiency, and low fuel consumption, such as continuous tank-cover LNG
carriers with drastic weight reductions and performance improvements, fuel-efficient and
environmentally-friendly ultra-steam turbine (UST) and slow-speed diesel with gas injection and
re-liquefaction (SSD-GI) propulsion plants, regasification vessels that significantly reduce fuel
consumption during the regasification process, and reliable highly economic LNG floating
production storage and offloading units.
|1. Introduction
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., (MHI) has built forty-two liquefied natural gas (LNG