Vol. 55 No. 1 (2018)   Environmental Initiatives
Technical Papers

Approach to Environmental Solutions in the Marine Engineering Business

HIROTOMO OTSUKA
YUSUKE WATANABE
HIDEAKI KANEKO
KAZUKI SAIKI
SHO KOYANAGI
MASAYUKI KATO

Ships can transport large volumes of cargo at a time and are an environmentally-friendly means of transportation compared to others. In recent years, however, the tightening of various environmental regulations related to ships has been promoted in consideration of the burden on the environment. The scope of these regulations is wide, ranging from regulations on air pollution and global warming related to NOx, SOx and CO2, to regulations on the preservation of the ecosystem, and appropriate measures for each regulation must be taken. Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. (MHI-MSB) provides various environmental solutions to correspond to the need for reducing a wide range of environmental burdens in the shipbuilding and ocean development field. Among them, the energy-efficient hull-form, SOx Scrubber System, LNG fueled ship and LNG Facility for Marine Applications are described in this report.