Ships are increasingly transitioning to fuels such as methanol, ammonia, or liquefied natural gas. At the same time, requirements are continuously tightened for the maritime industry to reduce and, not least, document the emissions of harmful gases and particles. The particular challenge of documenting ship emissions is the main focus of Danish company Green Instruments, which has now, in collaboration with customers, developed a visionary type of measuring equipment that can help the shipping companies, reports seatrade maritime.
In the future, shipping will be much greener. Instead of using fossil fuels, container ships and other types of vessels will run on new fuels such as methanol, ammonia, and biogas. In addition, shipping companies are subject to requirements for documenting their emissions of, among other things, methane gas and sulphur particles from their ships, increasing the need for advanced measuring equipment.
Green instruments
Green Instruments offers user-friendly measuring equipment specifically designed and developed for harsh maritime environments and based on many years of direct customer feedback. When we say, “designed for purpose,” we mean it, says René B. Christensen, Sales Director of Green Instruments, who specialises in technology for emission control, water and gas monitoring, hazard detection, and energy optimization on ships.
G7200
Green Instruments’ new G7200 Multi Gas Monitoring System is a future-proof CEMS which can be customised to meet regulatory requirements. The system can measure the emissions of nitrous oxide, sulphur, and methane gas, among others.
“We have used all the customer feedback we have received over the past 5-6 years to develop a new, exceedingly adaptable and user-friendly product. Shipping companies need a system that is future-proof and flexible, as they are continuously met with new documentation requirements. Data is more important than ever”, says René B. Christensen.
” It is of no use to have ships that only meet the requirements in one specific region when they also sail in other regions, as is the case with several thousand ships in the international shipping industry. Because of this, shipping companies need a flexible system that can measure many different types of gases. This matches the feedback we receive from shipowners, with whom we have increasingly strong cooperation”, says René B. Christensen.
MAMII
This cooperation has resulted in Green Instruments’ measuring equipment being a central part of the MAMII (Methane Abatement in Maritime Innovation Initiative) – a large-scale project focusing on the measuring of methane emissions from ships. In this initiative, the company is working with, among others, several major shipping companies that operate ships powered by LNG.
Green Instruments has observed that in general, shipping companies show far more interest in measuring emissions from ships than they have done before. This is partly due to the fact that it pays for the shipping companies to have data available in an orderly and accessible manner.
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Source : seatrade-maritime
