Linde to Present at HANNOVER MESSE

Technology company The Linde Group will be presenting the latest advances in eco-friendly energy carriers at HANNOVER MESSE 2014. It will be focusing in particular on liquefied natural gas (LNG).

LNG is an economically viable bridging technology in the move towards more sustainable mobility choices. As the most environmentally friendly of all fossil fuels, LNG is a particularly attractive alternative to heavy oils or diesel for shipping and trucking companies. Driven by increasingly strict emission thresholds, demand for LNG is rising in these and other industries.

In Rotterdam, in the Netherlands – this year’s official partner country of the fair – Linde is currently assembling an LNG refuelling station for heavy goods vehicles. Linde’s customer, IDS (International Diesel Services), a division of Kuwait Petroleum International, will start supplying LNG to vehicles by mid-2014. Dual-fuel operation in trucks significantly reduces diesel consumption, thus cutting CO₂ emissions by 10 to 14 per cent, sulphur oxide by 90 and nitrogen oxide by 80 per cent.

Also German shipping company AG EMS has decided to rely on LNG: the company will convert its vessel ‘MS Ostfriesland’ to LNG by mid-2014. Germany’s first LNG-powered ferry will be supplied by Bomin Linde LNG, a joint venture formed in 2012 together with ship fuels specialist Bomin. LNG terminals are planned at several locations, so that, from 2015, all German ports on the North Sea and the Baltic Sea will have a source of environmentally-friendly liquid gas.

Press Release, April 4, 2014; Image: Linde