据世界天然气11月7日消息，总部位于德国汉堡的液化天然气供应商Nauticor正在合作展示全球首艘使用合成天然气(SNG)作为LNG动力改装集装箱船Wes Amelie的燃料的技术。
展览由MAN Energy Solutions和Wessels Marine组织，由Nauticor和Unifeeder(租船公司)提供支持。
作为该项目的一部分，这艘可载1036 个标准箱的集装箱集散船Wes Amelie号将用SNG来替代一部分用于往返的LNG。更具体地说，MAN Energy Solutions公司在其声明中表示，Wes Amelie号每次往返通常使用的120吨LNG中，有20吨将被环境中立的SNG所取代。
Nauticor在声明中指出，汽车制造商奥迪的P2G设施在德国克洛彭堡附近的韦尔特地区将为该项目提供20吨SNG，目前正在建设一座液化厂。
该设施使用风能来生产SNG，因此提供的是100%的中立产品。
一旦液化厂投产(目前预计在2020年第二季度)，Nauticor将负责SNG从生产设施到船舶的运输。
汉堡Wessels Marine常务董事Christian Hoepfner表示:“Wes Amelie项目一直致力于展示技术可行性，同时指出必要的监管措施，使之成为可能。最初对液化天然气的改造得到了德国政府的支持，这在经济上是可行的，但这对环境而言是巨大的成功，因为它大大减少了排放。”
裘寅 编译自 世界天然气
原文如下：
Quartet to trial SNG use on LNG-fueled Wes Amelie
Nauticor, a Hamburg based LNG supplier, is partnering on the technical showcase of the world’s first use of synthetic natural gas (SNG) as fuel for the LNG-retrofit containership Wes Amelie.
The showcase is being organized by MAN Energy Solutions and Wessels Marine and supported by Nauticor and Unifeeder, the charter company.
As part of the project, the 1,036-teu feeder container ship Wes Amelie will replace a share of the LNG, that the vessel uses for a roundtrip, with SNG. More specifically, MAN Energy Solutions said in its statement that 20 of the 120 tons of LNG that the Wes Amelie typically uses per round trip will be replaced by climate-neutral SNG.
In its statement, Nauticor noted that automobile manufacturer Audi’s Power-to-Gas facility in Werlte near Cloppenburg, Germany, where a liquefaction plant is currently under construction, will provide 20 tons of SNG for the project.
The facility is using wind energy to produce the SNG and, therefore, is providing a 100 percent climate-neutral product.
As soon as the liquefaction plant will be commissioned, which is currently foreseen for the second quarter of 2020, Nauticor will take care of the transport of the SNG from the production facility to the ship.
“The Wes Amelie project has always been about demonstrating the technologically doable while pointing out the regulatory actions necessary to make it possible,” said Christian Hoepfner,
managing owner of Wessels Marine, Hamburg. “The initial retrofit to LNG took support from the German Government to be financially viable, but it was a huge success for the environment in that it drastically reduced emissions. As a consequence, there now is a retrofit programme in place to make more retrofits happen.”
