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Overview
LNG is increasingly being used as a marine fuel because of its clean-burning properties (enabling emission control compliance) and lower operating costs. The use of LNG in these application spaces, where small volumes of LNG are transferred, poses specific challenges requiring innovative technical solutions.
Trelleborg’s Universal Safety Link (USL) takes long-standing industry practice and recommendation in the large-scale LNG sector and brings this same methodology into the small-scale sector. For example, the USL system complies with ISO20519:2017 Specification for bunkering of liquefied natural gas fuelled vessels and follows the SGMF LNG as a Marine Fuel recommendations V3 (2021) set out for Bunkering Safety Links (BSL). Trelleborg Marine & Infrastructure offers this via a main fiber optic system with an electric Emergency Shutdown Link (ESL) backup.
Features
Fibre-optic primary system using standard digital SONET data transmission
Secondary electric ESD link
Standard industry connector system
Operator screen shows local and remote LNG transfer arms/tanks
Single operator capability
Process data available on graphical user interface, e.g. tank levels, pressures, temperatures and more
Compatible with existing Trelleborg's Ship-Shore Link (SSL) systems (via SSL upgrade)
Full optical primary and electric ESD secondary system
Applications
- Small scale LNG transfer
- LNG fueling
- LNG bunkering
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Universal Safety Link
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