WÄRTSILÄ TECHNICAL JOURNAL f o u r7. 01 Twenty 2018 COVER STORY TESTING THE LIMITS 22 Wärtsilä’s newest engine page and its ground-breaking new design ENERGY 4 Selecting the right 12 The future of LNG tech energy storage We help you evaluate the different Navigate the complex field LNG terminal platforms of energy storage MARINE 24 Turning emissions 32 Improving thruster into fuel efficiency A new system that converts Creating more effective lost oil into fuel thrust using less fuel in detail issue no. 01.2018 WÄRTSILÄ TECHNICAL JOURNAL | WWW.WARTSILA.COM Contents WÄRTSILÄ HEADS TO A SMART AND SUSTAINABLE FUTURE ENERGY Many industries are embracing connectivity and collaboration – LNG terminals – land-based vs. floating including at sea. Wärtsilä’s Smart Marine Ecosystem vision is to storage and regasification technology .............4 make shipping intelligent by connecting smart vessels with smart Natural gas takes the role as backup fuel ..........8 ports. Although the future is always somewhat unmapped, the direction is clear. Hence, Wärtsilä recently acquired Transas, a global Next-generation energy storage systems .........12 market leader in marine navigation solutions. Bright prospects for Wärtsilä’s Wärtsilä is taking concrete and tangible steps towards smart solar energy strategy ............................18 shipping, and the acquisition is in line with our Smart Marine Ecosystem vision and strategy. Our product portfolio is the Wärtsilä 31SG, the world’s most biggest in the marine industry, and now the solutions we can offer efficient 4-stroke engine .........................22 with Transas will further increase the cost-efficiency and eco- friendliness of our customers’ vessels. Taking the environment into account is not just words on paper MARINE for Wärtsilä. In this issue, you can read how Wärtsilä’s Voyage Wärtsilä Voyage Emission Reduction Emission Reduction (VER) (page 24) system helps reduce volatile system turns emissions into fuel .................24 organic compound emissions on vessels. On a Very Large Crude Carrier, the system can prevent the loss of up to 270 tonnes of Wärtsilä 20 – Small changes, big results .........30 cargo a week, all the while helping protect the environment from Wärtsilä’s new retractable thruster is potentially harmful emissions. It makes financial sense, too: the an improvement across all parameters ...........32 solution spells potential annual savings of up to USD 2 million. Things like the aforementioned acquisition as well as VER are Eco-friendly tugs make a splash ................. 36 perfect fits for our overall purpose: enabling sustainable societies Modularisation hand in hand with with smart technology. Smart and sustainable often go hand in manufacturability ..............................40 hand, complementing instead of contradicting each other. MAKING WAVES Wärtsilä’s approach acknowledges players of all shapes and sizes, and the Smart Marine Ecosystem is keen to invite new innovations on A new breed of eco-friendly tugs is SERVICES board. As part of our digital transformation, we’ve established a new helping improve sustainability. Wärtsilä EnergoFlow boosts venture model, including a programme called SparkUp Challenge. The theme of the first round was marine technology, and at the propulsion efficiency ...........................44 end of February, 2 out of 11 finalists were announced as winners after a day full of pitching (page 48). SparkUp Challenge is one of the FUTURE building blocks of Wärtsilä’s ecosystem as well as a key contributor to our Smart Marine vision. The next challenge will revolve around SparkUp Challenge invites start-ups to Smart Energy, again looking to bring together smart and sustainable innovate and co-create together with Wärtsilä ...48 business opportunities. In the world of rapidly evolving technology, the only constant is iPad change. At Wärtsilä, we’re at the forefront of digital transformation THIS ISSUE OF IN DETAIL is also available on iPad as a in the marine and energy industries Wärtsilä iPublication app from Apple's Appstore, as well as in a browsable web version at www.twentyfour7magazine.com. – but we can’t do it alone. In order to Web build a complete ecosystem, we need a The perfect Embracing Taking network of partners and collaborators. backup fuel? modular product propulsion to Together, we can not only serve our Publisher: Wärtsilä Corporation, John Stenbergin ranta 2, customers better, but also better architecture the next level P.O. Box 196, FIN-00531 Helsinki, Finland | the world by looking after our shared Natural gas, which has a small A design process based on Wärtsilä’s EnergoFlow Editor-in-Chief: Ilari Kallio | Managing editor and editorial office: Virva Äimälä | environment and giving it the care it footprint, may be the right modularisation will increase reduces rotational losses Editorial team: Marit Holmlund-Sund, Mari Kankaanranta, deserves. choice when a large amount of efficiency, reduce production in propulsion systems, Dan Pettersson, Mirja-Maija Santala, Sanni Suominen, Mikaela Terhi fuel is needed. time and improve reliability. boosting efficiency. and Minna Timo l | Layout and production: Spoon | Printed: April 2018 by PunaMusta, Joensuu, Finland ISSN 1797- Ilari Kallio 0032 | Copyright © 2018 Wärtsilä Corporation | Director, Digitalisation Paper: cover LumiSilk 250g/m², inside pages UPM Fine 120 g/m² Wärtsilä Marine Power Solutions E-mail and feedback: [email protected] Editor-in-Chief of In Detail MORE ON PAGE 8 MORE ON PAGE 40 MORE ON PAGE 44 Cover photo: Wärtsilä in detail [ ENERGY / IN DETAIL ] WÄRTSILÄ TECHNICAL JOURNAL 01.2018 LNG Terminal Comparison Historical concepts (mooring systems and layouts) ] DETAIL FSRU FSRU FSRU FSRU IN / ENERGY Jetty Head + Jetty Trestle Jetty Head [ STL Buoy Yoke system Fig. 1 - LNG terminal comparison. Historical concepts (mooring systems and layouts). LNG Terminals Worldwide Locations 1 © Wärtsilä INTERNAL 28.3.2018 Jens Norrgård LNG terminals – land-based FSRU vs. floating storage and FSU regasification technology Onshore terminal (not all of them) © Wärtsilä INTERNAL Jens Norrgård Fig. 2 - LNG terminals worldwide. AUTHOR: Jens Norrgård, General Manager, Sales Proposals, LNG Solutions, Wärtsilä Energy Solutions mail: [email protected] The FSRU concept tanker truck loading systems, which may the units with multiple locations when there The most common concept for FSRUs is be of importance in certain markets and are seasonal send-out needs. (Figure 2) One often reads or hears people say that History Looking at the installed FSRUs today, mooring at shore (> 60% have jetty + access infrastructure systems. The majority of floating storage and regasification units Floating storage and regasification units most of them have a good reason for being trestle). This is the conventional FSRU and the FSRUs are also located onshore, so CAPEX vs. OPEX (FSRUs) are more economical solutions (FSRUs) as a concept were developed in developed: some are political, while some commonly referred to when comparing with the functionalities given could be adapted What favours floating solutions is the compared to land-based terminals. What 2005, driven by the need for a fast delivery are based on location, schedule, public land-based terminals. There are also concepts also to the FSRUs if there was a need for upfront investment, unlike the case in a is the basis for such a statement? Is it LNG storage and regasification solution. safety or environmental constraints. These that use other kinds of mooring technology. modifications in the existing infrastructure. land-based solution. Financing is key to accurate? To answer that question, one The first FSRU was not a new-built unit factors have been the determining factors These are, generally, more expensive systems The most common FSRU concepts are success when comparing with the use of needs a short history lesson to understand but a conversion of an existing LNG carrier for the selection of FSRUs versus land-based that are used where conventional jetty single-purpose terminals with a national chartered units where it will be on OPEX. the past. (LNGC) by a shipyard. The concept was a LNG terminals. So, can one say that FSRUs structures are impractical to construct or are pipeline gas supply or large-scale power Currently (March 2018), the charter rate success, and more projects were developed. compete with land-based solutions? No, not not permitted. generation. for an FSRU is USD 80,000–120,000 per These first FSRU projects had a short really; they are more a complement to each In general, land-based LNG terminals That said, developing a project with FSRU day depending on time charter period, delivery time in comparison with land- other, since the projects are very different. are more multifunctional terminals, technology limits one to a fixed storage location and size. This easily adds up to based terminals, which was the main driver. The values FSRUs bring to the LNG value since they also have LNG onshore. These volume and send-out volumes suitable for MUSD 29.2–47.5 on an annual basis. This Simultaneously land-based terminals were chain are not the same that land-based functionalities might be reloading of LNG a national pipeline. However, flexibility can is for the charter, e.g., the FSRU, insurance, built for long-term operations. terminals do. (Figure 1) feeders, bunkering of vessels and LNG be achieved if there is a possibility of sharing crew and maintenance, and on top of this 4 in detail in detail 5 [ ENERGY / IN DETAIL ] WÄRTSILÄ TECHNICAL JOURNAL 01.2018 ] Lifecycle costs DETAIL 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 IN Millions / -200 Daily equivalent costs -400 160 000 150 000 ENERGY [ 140 000 -600 Process costs 130 000 120 000 -800 110 000 Process costs 100 000 Cumulative CAPEX and OPEX (USD) 90 000 -1 000 80 000 Charter rate Process costs USD Process costs 70 000 -1 200 60 000 Years 50 000 40 000 Onshore terminal FSRU (60 000 USD/day) FSRU (80 000 USD/day) FSRU (100 000 USD/day) FSRU (120 000 USD/day) 30 000 Charter rate 20 000 Charter rate 10 000 0 Land-based terminal FSRU FSU + JRU FSU + FSRB Fig.