IT’S TIME TO SWITCH TO THE GREEN COURSE

Luckily, there are many approaches for vessels to improve their rating. Multiple well-developed options are already available, offering various approaches to reducing emissions and enhancing efficiency in different aspects.

Fuel Oil

As a mature energy, fuel oil still takes a dominant share in marine fuel with its advantages such as high energy density, well-known engine technology, fuel standards, etc.

However, burning fuel oil has several negative disadvantages which impose a heavy burden including CO2, SOx, and PM emissions such as black carbon.

Headway is providing solutions to mitigate the harmful effects of burning fuel oil to comply with the regulations from IMO. Headway’s OceanGuard® Carbon Capture, Storage & Utilization (CCSU) solution, adopting the latest technology, ensures stable performance with only 10% height of the conventional scrubber design. The solution is capable of capturing CO2 in a good performance with less power and heat consumption. In addition, Headway has composed a new formula that is 3~5 times more efficient than regular MEA. Combined with OceanGuard® Exhaust Gas Cleaning System, OceanGuard® CCSU can save up to 25% of the fuel costs.

Headway’s OceanGuard® Exhaust Gas Cleaning System is a tailor-made solution with swift ROI and low OPEX. It adopts ultra-micro atomization technology without any packing layer, which has no inconvenient packing replacement, back pressure increase to the main engine, or cracks inside the scrubber. The system is capable of automatically adjusting the power of the seawater pump in time according to the onboard working conditions of the main engine to achieve the maximum effect and realize a shorter ROI.

Alternative Fuels

Fuel oil is not the ultimate solution for zero-carbon and the market is looking into suitable and reliable alternative fuels including LNG/LPG, methanol, biofuels, hydrogen, and ammonia to serve as a promising solution to achieve a lower LCA carbon footprint. However, alternative fuels also caused fierce arguments and require more attention on infrastructures. For example, hydrogen is a promising

“Zero-Emission” solution. However, there is still a long way before H2 or LH2 comes to the stage. Moreover, under the LCA approach, maritime requires green or blue hydrogen to reduce well-to-tank emissions. Ammonia, as clean energy, faces the same challenges.

Although the long-term solution is on the way, the medium-term one is already available, as LNG-fueled and methanolfueled vessels are already feasible. For example, OceanGuard® Low Flash-point Fuel Supply System (LFSS), developed independently by Headway, has obtained an AiP from RINA. OceanGuard® LFSS adopts modular and redundant design. Additionally, Headway has also developed core filtration units, and duplex filters with high filtration accuracy. It’s estimated that LFSS with green methanol can help vessels reduce up to 90% of carbon emissions. In addition, OceanGuard® Marine Fuel Gas Supply System (FGSS) contributes further to carbon neutrality and two of them have been operated on two 11,000-dwt bulkers. This milestone follows a confirmed order for 10 sets.

Headway, as a trusted partner, remains committed to providing high-performance solutions, technical support, and consultancy in complying with various regulations from IMO, classification societies, flags, and more according to size and type of ship, route it sails, onboard space, and engine type.

Green shipping is embedded in Headway’s vision and development strategy, and broader efforts to help the industry accelerate its journeys toward decarbonization.

About Headway

Headway Technology Group (Qingdao) Co., Ltd. is a high-tech enterprise that takes technological innovation as the purpose and specializes in the research, manufacturing, and sales of high-tech marine equipment with a comprehensive global after-sales service network. www.headwaytech.com