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MOL announces the completion of the construction of the first ship ship hybrid garage
Agreement with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. for the construction of a new generation of ships for which liquified natural gas
June 29, 2012
The shipowning group Japanese Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has announced that in the ship yard of Kobe of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (MHOS) is completed the construction of Emerald Ace, the first car carrier hybrid equipped of a system of generation of electric power that arranges a photovoltaic system of the power of 160 kW, developed from MHOS, Energy Company (Panasonic group) and MOL, arranged with A batteries to the lithium ions that can store approximately 2,2 MW-h of electricity.
Sulla Emerald Ace the electricity is generated by a system of fotovoltaici panels while the car carrier is in navigation and is stored in the batteries. When the ship is in a port its diesel motor is extinguished and the electricity is supplied by the batteries, allowing to reach a level zero of emissions.
Emerald Ace is long 199,99 meters, wide 32,26 meters and can transport 6,400 motor vehicles.
While Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. has signed an agreement with same MOL in order to construct a new generation of ships for which liquified natural gas of class “Sayaendo”, that they will introduce a remarkable efficiency in the fuel consumption and the structural elements of the ships, that they will be used mainly for the transport of the which liquified natural gas on behalf of the Kansai Electric Power Co.
The new ships LNG will be long 288,0 meters, wide 48,94 meters, will have a tonnage of 138.000 tons and will be able to transport until 153.000 cubic metres of which liquified natural gas in reserviors of Moss type.
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The shipowning group Japanese Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has announced that in the ship yard of Kobe of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (MHOS) is completed the construction of Emerald Ace, the first car carrier hybrid equipped of a system of generation of electric power that arranges a photovoltaic system of the power of 160 kW, developed from MHOS, Energy Company (Panasonic group) and MOL, arranged with A batteries to the lithium ions that can store approximately 2,2 MW-h of electricity.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
