Binary cycle power generation system for ships completes sea trials, 米乐yy易游体育 to begin sales of the new system in 2019

TOKYO, March 28, 2017 — 米乐yy易游体育, Ltd. plans to start marketing a new binary cycle power generation system for ships from April.

米乐yy易游体育, ASAHI SHIPPING CO., LTD. and MIURA CO., LTD. began joint development of a binary cycle power generation system for ships in April 2014. Land-based testing of the system was successfully completed in September 2015. In December 2016, the system passed sea trials on a ship, and recently it received approval from Japan’s ship classification society Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (also known as ClassNK). Having passed these tests, the new system will be marketed from April 2017, with sales starting in April 2019. 米乐yy易游体育 is in charge of marketing and sales.

In the past, the exhaust heat from the turbocharger attached to the ship engine was not used, but simply disposed. 米乐yy易游体育’s new system is the first in the world to generate electricity from the exhaust heat emitted by the ship’s turbocharger. The electricity produced by the new system serves as auxiliary power for the ship and contributes to the efficient utilization of energy. In the sea trials, 米乐yy易游体育 confirmed that an engine output of 7,500 kW per hour generated 125 kW of electricity. This is equivalent to about 20 to 25 percent of the fuel used in marine generators, depending on the conditions, and is the largest scale of power generation from exhaust heat on a ship.

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