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Alfa Laval Opens R&D Facility
Alfa Laval says it opened a ship simulation facility in Aaborg, Denmark that it calls the "largest and most advanced in the marine industry," with an inaugural ceremony held Wednesday.
The technology company said the Alfa Laval Test & Training Centre includes a testing area with a 2 MW marine engine and commercial and prototype equipment from the company's marine product groups, a control room, and a training complex.
A pipeline supplies the facility with seawater from the nearby Limfjord.
"After only a half-hour tour of the Alfa Laval Test & Training Centre, you come away with an impression of just how deep the knowledge is," said Lars Skytte Jørgensen, vice president of Alfa Laval Product Centre Boilers.
"The centre really is similar to a machine room, and you get a sense of all the connections – not only between the equipment and process lines, but between all the areas of expertise across Alfa Laval."
The company said the initial reason for building the technology centered on its exhaust gas cleaning technology, and its PureSOX installation is central to the facility.
In addition, Alfa Laval will use the centre to work with Danish catalysis company Haldor Topsøe on nitrogen oxides (NOX) reduction using selective catalytic reduction (SCR), an alternative to exhaust gas recirculation (EGR), and to study energy efficiency technologies including its fuel conditioning module, FCM One.
In December, Alfa Laval said it had received an order for its PureDry fuel recovery systems for 40 vessels, which it said represent a widening acceptance of the technology.
