New Container Design to Use LNG Membrane System

by Ship & Bunker News Team
Friday September 12, 2014

DNV GL says it will work together with South Korean shipping line Hanjin and engineering company GTT to develop a liquefied natural gas (LNG)-fuelled large container vessel using membrane fuel tanks.

The concept study uses a 16,300 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) containership designed by Hanjin Shipyard for deployment on an Asia to Europe route.

The ship will use a dual-fuel two-stroke engine and two membrane tanks with a total capacity of 11,000 cubic metres of LNG, sufficient for travelling about 15,000 nautical miles.

Hanjin is designing the core of the LNG supply system, while GTT, which works mainly on membrane containment systems for LNG cargo, will integrate the fuel containment system.

DNV GL will provide design review and hazard identification, assess the economic viability of the design, and give it approval in principle certification upon successful completion.

DNV GL approved a GTT North American (GTT NA) design for a LNG bunker barge using a GTT membrane containment system earlier this year.