Hanshin Diesel reveals design of methanol-ready engine

Japanese engine maker Hanshin Diesel has unveiled the basic design concept and workings of its gaseous-fuelled engine that will be methanol-ready.

PHOTO: A comparison of diesel engine (left) and gas engine that will be methanol ready. Methanol Institute

The engine – G30 – utilises a “a low pressure and pre-mixed gas system, and can be operated with gas only from engine start to normal operation.” Meanwhile, the combustion chamber comprises two prechambers “accompanying the moderate swirl similar to two stroke engines.”

The company expects to introduce the methanol-ready engine in 2024.

Hanshin Diesel unveiled the engine design during a presentation at CIMAC Congress in Busan, South Korea last week.

Notably, Hanshin Diesel is part of the Mitsui O.S.K Lines (MOL)-led consortium that plans to build a methanol-fuelled coastal tanker for domestic methanol transportation.

By Tuhin Roy

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