Russia is developing its own gas carrier with imported systems

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With the start of the special operation, many Western companies, including shipbuilding and machine-building corporations, left the Russian market. This greatly complicates the presence of the Russian Federation in the global liquefied gas market, since this requires its own transport for the supply of LNG.

The departure of Western "partners" called into question the production of cargo containing systems (GSS) and engines for gas carriers, which were actually controlled by foreign companies (one of them is the French GTT). This led to the start of the development of the 10070M project, in which it is planned to replace foreign components with domestic parts.



As part of the implementation of this idea, JSC Atomenergomash, together with the KGNTs and SPbGMTU, created a new technology use of insert containers made of polymer composite materials with insulation from cryogenic polyurethane foam. At the same time, the ship and insert tanks are manufactured in parallel, and the assembly is carried out at the very end of construction, which allows you to speed up the work.

Meanwhile, dual-fuel diesel generators required for gas carriers are produced only by Wärtsilä and MAN, which left Russia. In the Russian Federation, it is not yet possible to assemble such installations, and it will not be possible to supply them through parallel imports. According to experts, local entrepreneurs will not be able to establish the production of such engines in the next 10 years.

The developers proposed their own solution, which is to use the traditional steam-gas cycle with the use of dual-fuel gas boilers in conjunction with a steam turbine plant, as on nuclear icebreakers. This will allow us to gain time and promptly start the production of the gas carrier. The need to occupy a niche in the LNG market dictates the need to speed up work on the production of such vessels.
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  1. prior
    prior
    -1
    31 January 2023 11: 45
    We cannot produce Zhiguli with ABS ourselves, but here are gas carriers.
    Officials are such a special profession for stealing money allocated by the state for completely different purposes.
    Therefore, one should not even hope that the money allocated for gas carriers will really go to their production, because no one allocated money for the production of the missing diesel generators.
    1. Nelton
      Nelton
      +1
      31 January 2023 12: 52
      Quote: prior
      you should not even hope that the money allocated for gas carriers will really go to their production,

      Let's start with the fact that gas carriers are already being produced, with a lot of imports, but nonetheless.
      a lot of money has been invested in SSK star, and it still works.

      And the money there is mostly from Gazprom and Rosneft.

      Rosatom is involved in the project, which brings its projects to implementation, icebreakers 22220 and VVER-1200 power units are an example of this.
      1. prior
        prior
        0
        1 February 2023 10: 51
        Let's start with the fact that...
        Let's end up with:
        - Superjet aircraft and almost everything else was also produced, but again everything came up against imports;
        - investing does not mean getting results;
        - there is no Gazprom and Rosneft money in nature, there is people's money;
        - there are no diesel generators, but you kept silent about it;
        - Rosatom is the only industry that has not been privatized, because defective managers do not understand anything in nuclear physics, and therefore this is not an example.
        And most importantly, 30 years of capitalist power have to hear promises about what will happen.
        Where is what is? All that has been done is nothing more than the modernization of "Soviet galoshes".
        Where is the average salary of $2000?
        Again tomorrow? I have been retired for a long time, and they still continue to feed me "breakfasts".
        1. Nelton
          Nelton
          -1
          12 March 2023 12: 54
          Quote: prior
          Let's end up with:

          Oh, I just noticed your reply.

          there are no diesel generators, but you kept silent about this;

          There are no diesels. There are other options:

          In the modernized project 10070M, the following can be used:

          steam-gas cycle with the use of gas boilers coupled with a steam turbine plant,

          most importantly, 30 years of capitalist power have to hear promises about what will happen.
          Where is what is? All that has been done is nothing more than the modernization of "Soviet galoshes".

          Here are surprisingly similar in their hatred of Russia as pro_SSSR_ovtsy and liberal zapadentsy.

          Both those and others hoarsely deny at least some kind of positive in the Russian Federation.
          The only difference is that when you cover yourself with facts, the people behind the USSR yell "modernization of the Soviet", the Westerners - "a copy of the Western."
          And the wheel was invented like that in ancient times ...

          Exactly since 2022, through the fault of one Soviet KGB officer, a lot has really come up against imports.
          But even that didn't stop

          Set a record in housing construction, 100+ million m2

          Set a harvest record, 145 million tons, and a series of harvests of 115+ million tons has been going on for 7 years, while the best result of the RSFSR is 3 years in a row (1977-70) for 100+ million tons.

          Introduce a large circular metro line

          Switch to naphthyl pH Soyuz on Vostochny and extend the accident-free series of launches to 101

          Put into operation the icebreaker Ural pr. 22220
  2. Pafnuty Pakhomovich
    Pafnuty Pakhomovich
    0
    17 February 2023 06: 15
    This has never happened before, and here it is again. Billions of dollars were spent on gas pipelines, and now, then, they decided to deal with gas carriers? By the time they are built, they will no longer be needed. By that time, everyone will have switched to alternative energy sources, and we will still harness the horse.