Natural gas as a fuel for inland waterways

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Argonon , the first inland waterway vessel in Europe to be powered by dual-fuel diesel engines

LNG tank containers for shipping

The emissions from ship engines are currently causing shipyards , shipowners and inland navigation bodies to deal intensively with natural gas as a fuel .

The first inland tanker to be used in Europe that also runs on natural gas was the Argonon, built in 2010 . The barge used on the Rhine is equipped with two dual-fuel diesel engines that run on a mixture of 80 percent liquefied natural gas (LNG) and 20 percent diesel fuel. Since there are still no regulations for natural gas drives, it runs with a special permit. Due to the lack of natural gas bunker boats or natural gas filling stations for ships in Germany, it is always refueled by trucks. Various projects to create the regulations, the necessary inland infrastructure and the construction of inland waterway vessels using natural gas as fuel are being planned or carried out in Germany and neighboring countries. The currently only German LNG infrastructure for inland shipping is currently being planned in the ports of Duisburg and Mannheim.

An LNG tank container has already been developed and built, which also serves as an interim solution for inland shipping.

In 2013, two tankers with pure LNG propulsion, the Greenstream and the sister ship Green Rhine, were put into service and also used on the Rhine.

From 2016, the first "inland LNG tanker" is to be available for the transport of LNG on the Rhine and adjacent rivers. This has been planned by the Dutch VEKA shipyard and Deen Shipping since 2014.

literature

• HJ Reuss: Gas engines for inland shipping. Inland Navigation No. 2, 2013
• H. Garrelmann: Projects in Germany and neighboring countries. Inland Navigation No. 2, 2013
• G. Ehrmann, J. Schubert: Potentials of LNG as a fuel for shipping , energy | wasser-praxis, number 9, September 2014, pp. 16-19

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Development of a trimodal LNG distribution infrastructure for Duisburg. greentechalliances.nl, April 29, 2015, accessed on July 13, 2015 . 
2. ↑ LNG bunkering services joins forces with new partner Peter Goedvolk. vekagroup.com, February 2, 2015, accessed July 13, 2015 . 
3. ↑ LNG domestic. VEKA, accessed October 26, 2014 .