TGE Marine Gas Engineering
| TGE Marine Gas Engineering GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1980 |
| Seat | Bonn |
| management | Manfred Küver |
| sales | EUR 319 million (2007) |
| Website | www.tge-marine.com |
The TGE Marine Gas Engineering is a company with headquarters in Bonn . It has supplied the technology for the construction of around 120 gas tankers around the world, which are mainly used to transport ethylene .
history
The TGE was founded in Bonn in 1980, at that time under the name "Liquid-Gas International Ingenieurgesellschaft", abbreviated LGI. The main purpose of the company was the construction and delivery of gas handling systems for shipyards in Germany and the Netherlands. About ten years later, comparable systems were also supplied for shore-side systems, with export to China playing a major role. In the meantime, gas handling systems and cargo tanks for around 40 gas-fired power plants have been delivered to China.
In 1993 LGI was acquired by the Belgian Tractebel Group and renamed Tractebel Gas Engineering GmbH (TGE). The product range has been expanded to include LNG (liquefied natural gas) technology in order to focus more on the construction of small LNG tankers with sizes from 5,000 to 40,000 cubic meters and LNG bunker stations in the future.
In the offices at the headquarters in Bonn, in Shanghai and in the design offices of shipyards, TGE engineers work on ships for the transport of LPG , ethylene and LNG. In addition, TGE participates in developments for the use of LNG as a marine fuel and LNG bunker stations.
LNG tankers
LNG tankers transport liquefied natural gas at minus 163 degrees from the LNG liquefaction facilities to countries with ports that have the appropriate extinguishing systems. At the LNG tanker Coral Energy with a loading capacity of 15,600 m³ LNG, which is cooled to minus 164 ° C during transport, which was built in 2012 at the Meyer Werft in Papenburg and its sister company Neptun Werft in Rostock for the Dutch shipping company Anthony Veder TGE was significantly involved. The tanker was equipped with a low-emission dual-fuel engine that currently meets the highest environmental standards.
LNG propulsion and LNG bunker systems
TGE is currently developing and building gas systems for dual-fuel ship engines and LNG bunker systems. Smaller tankers supply small, decentralized consumers and future LNG bunker stations. The 2015 regulations for the Baltic and North Sea, which only use marine fuels with a max. Allowing 0.1% sulfur opens up new perspectives for the use of LNG as a fuel for diesel engines. Alternatives are desulphurisation systems on board or the use of gas oil as fuel. Investigations into the construction of LNG bunker stations are currently being carried out in these shipping areas with the participation of TGE.
Regulations
The use of gas as a ship fuel has so far been prohibited according to the SOLAS regulations with the exception of the IGC building regulations for gas tankers (International Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk). A proposal for the development of a guideline for gas as a marine fuel was submitted to the IMO and adopted as MSC.285 (86) in 2009. It is considered the state of the art for the installation of gas-powered systems on ships and documents the current international standard for ships with gas operation. This enables operation for ships with gas operation with the approval of the flag state.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Annual financial statements according to the Federal Gazette
- ↑ Anthony Veder. Gas tanker. Meyer-Werft, accessed on July 17, 2019 .