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Doosan Engine Announces 'World's First' Commercialisation of Dual-Fuel, Low-Speed Engine
Doosan Engine, a division of South Korea's Doosan Corporation, says it has commercialised the "world's first" dual-fuel, low-speed engine for ships.
The electronically controlled engine is primarily powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG) and uses heavy oil as a supplementary fuel, which the company said helps reduce ship operating costs because of the relatively low price of LNG.
The engine also drops emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and sulfur compounds.
Doosan Engine said it will supply the engines to five 3,100 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) ships ordered by U.S.-based Totem Ocean Trailer Express (TOTE), and it will also equip three of the ships with dual-fuel, mid-speed engines for power generators.
"Doosan Engine produced and supplied the world's first electronically-controlled low-speed engine back in 2003, and now the Company has won another order for electronically-controlled dual-fuel, low-speed engine for the first time in the world, as well as earning recognition for its top-rated technology in the large-size vessel engine industry," said Chief Marketing Officer Sang-rok Lim.
"Amid the trend toward increasingly tough regulations on the oceanic environment, the Company has gained the upper hand in the fierce competition to win orders for eco-friendly vessel engines."
TOTE President and CEO Anthony Chiarello said recently that the company can drive bunker costs down by 40 percent and reduce emissions by switching to LNG bunkers.
