Ptarmigan - a new fully refrigerated LPG tanker concept

摘要

This special supplement has concentrated largely on LNG tanker advances; however, a significant proportion of the gas tanker industry centres on the less publicised LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) sector, whose technology is well rehearsed. What does the future hold for fully refrigerated LPG carrier design? According to gas tanker expert Syd Harris, whose fascinating new book on the subject was reviewed in The Naval Architect July/August 2004, page 16, overall hull design and cargo tank construction have changed little in the four decades which have passed since Bridgestone Maru was delivered from Mitsubishi in 1961.