LPGreen’s aim is to develop a more energy efficient, environmentally friendly, and safer vessel for the transportation of LPG products, taking into account existing and future trading patterns and ensuring the overall competitiveness of the concept.
The project will incorporate the latest advances in hull form optimisation, cargo handling systems, engine technology and fuelling options. The resulting concept design will be compliant with the new IGC Code, the class society said.
DNV GL has joined together with Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), Wärtsilä, MAN Diesel & Turbo and Consolidated Marine Management (CMM) to advance the project.
“The project contains some of the industry’s technology leaders to bring innovation in practice,” said George Dimopoulos, principal specialist at DNV GL’s Maritime R&D and Advisory unit in Greece who acts as the class society’s LPGreen project manager. “Using our partner’s experience, technology expertise and coupling it with state-of-the-art tools, such as hull form CFD optimisation and COSSMOS for integrated machinery systems, we are confident that we will develop a competitive, compliant and safer concept vessel, with significant advances in a range of its features.”
The project is due to be completed by the end of this year.
As mentioned above, the partners will investigate the potential for hull form optimisation, improved cargo handling and management systems, as well as machinery systems integration using the DNV GL COSSMOS tool. An additional feasibility study will assess the total competitiveness of the concept. The concept will include significant improvements in terms of its energy efficiency, environmental track record and the level of safety. The target is a concept that will be ready to be implemented as soon as the project is completed.
DNV GL has also signed a partnership agreement for fleet performance management with Prisma Electronics.
Prisma’s LAROS system is a wireless on board data collection platform for vessel performance management. DNV GL’s ECO Insight portal will provide fleet performance analytics based on LAROS on board data.
“The partnership will enable customers to manage their entire fleet based on unified and reliable information from any vessel’s system through the collection of data from all equipment of interest, normalising the data into meaningful KPIs for analytics, and the aggregation of homogenised data from multiple vessels into DNV GL’s ECO Insight portal. The combined solution promises a new era in fleet performance management,” said Christos Giordamlis, Prisma Electronics managing director.