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AMERICAS along with two more precoolers. in the ship’s years-long journey to completion
Often described as the “heart” of an LNG also officially begins Royal Caribbean’s next
Main cryogenic heat facility, MCHEs are made to liquefy natural chapter in building a clean-energy future as
the leader in innovative ship design. Debuting
gas. Gas enters an MCHE near its base and
exchanger and precoolers exits at its top in a sub-cooled, liquefied state, in fall 2023, Icon will be the cruise line’s first of
three ships to be powered by LNG (liquefied
at -160 Celsius. The liquefied gas is then piped
arrive at the LNG Canada to a storage tank, and from there, it is loaded natural gas). LNG and the state-of-the-art
onto specialised carriers for ocean transport.
ship’s additional environmentally friendly
site in Kitimat increasing efficiencies during different applications, such as shore power connection,
Precoolers are also integral to the process,
will boost energy efficiencies and reduce
Three towering pieces of equipment critical to stages of gas liquification. All three pieces of carbon footprint. More details about Icon’s
the gas liquification process have arrived at the infrastructure are precision engineered from advanced environmental technologies will be
LNG Canada site in Kitimat, as construction aluminium and are pressure tested prior to revealed at a future date.
activities progress through the project’s “going delivery. “We made our commitment to making
vertical” stage, with other key milestones on LNG CANADA, June 14, 2021 clean power at sea a reality – and soon the
the horizon. norm – when Icon Class was first announced
Crews spent the week of June 7 carefully An icon is born as in 2016, and we’re excited to see construction
offloading a 345-tonne main cryogenic heat underway on what will truly be a ship unlike
exchanger (MCHE) and two precooler units, Royal Caribbean any other,” said Michael Bayley, president
which weigh 308 tonnes and 284 tonnes and CEO, Royal Caribbean International.
respectively, from a cargo ship docked at the starts construction on “Our decades of work in ocean conservation,
LNG Canada project’s new material offloading energy efficiency and continuous
facility (MOF) in Kitimat Harbour. revolutionary ship improvement will be evident all throughout
The equipment was then placed on large, Icon. We look forward to revealing more of
self-propelled modular transporters, which An iconic day for the cruise industry’s next the game-changing features our guests and
will slowly move the pieces along the project iconic ship took place on Monday, June 14 crew have in store as she begins to take shape.”
site’s new three-kilometre-long haul road to when Royal Caribbean International marked Royal Caribbean is already known for
the main construction area in the coming the start of construction on its first Icon its decades of work in making strides on
days, where they will soon be connected to Class ship. To celebrate the milestone, the energy efficiency and reduced emissions
other pieces of LNG infrastructure. world’s largest cruise line held a steel-cutting through such technologies as air lubrication,
The largest of the three new pieces of ceremony at Finnish shipyard Meyer Turku, which sends billions of microscopic bubbles
equipment, the MCHE is approximately 50 where the revolutionary ship’s name was along the hull of a ship to reduce friction,
metres in length. Once installed vertically, it revealed as Icon of the Seas. and advanced waste heat recovery systems
will be among the most visible components at In attendance at the ceremony was Richard that turn waste heat into extra energy, up
the LNG Canada facility. Fain, chairman and CEO, Royal Caribbean to 3 megawatts, to help power the ship’s
It is the first of two MCHE units built by Group; Michael Bayley, president and CEO, operations. Use of such technologies,
Linde for the LNG Canada project; the second Royal Caribbean International; and Tim including LNG, will result in further reduced
MCHE is expected to arrive later this year, Meyer, CEO of Meyer Turku. The initial step emissions overall, virtually zero sulphur
dioxides and particulates, and a significant
reduction in the production of nitrogen
oxides.
ROYAL CARIBBEAN INTERNATIONAL, June 16,
2021

ASIA

H-Energy signs

memorandum of
understanding (MoU) with

Petrobangla for supply

of regasified LNG to
Bangladesh

Achieving a major milestone for supply of
regasified LNG from India to Bangladesh,
H-Energy signed the Memorandum of

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