Swiss engine maker WinGD, in collaboration with COSCO Transport Heavy Trade (Yangzhou) shipyard and CMD, has accomplished sea trials for its methanol dual-fuel engine.
The ocean trial of the WindGD 10X92DF-M engine, hailed as “a significant step ahead within the adoption of other marine fuels”, was accomplished on June 10, the Swiss firm revealed on social media.
Based on WinGD, in the course of the trial, the engine was efficiently built-in with the security and methanol provide techniques, engine efficiency in methanol mode utilizing heavy gas oil because the pilot gas was verified, and it efficiently handed all inspection gadgets in a single spherical.
The corporate added that this achievement was reached via “a singular take a look at setup- the world’s first single-cylinder take a look at engine with a 920mm bore – to show performance in methanol mode”.
To remind, WinGD’s methanol-fueled engine handed manufacturing unit and sort approval assessments and was introduced with X-DF-M kind approval certification in early 2025.
Previous to its debut, the engine was run at full load on greater than 95% methanol gas, on a testbed at CSSC-MES Diesel (CMD) in Shanghai, China, in mid-December 2024.
As beforehand reported, the dual-fuel engine is certain for a sequence of 16,000 TEU container vessels being constructed for COSCO Transport Traces on the COSCO Transport Heavy Trade (Yangzhou) shipyard.
