China State Shipbuilding Corporation on Thursday (19 December) said the GAS·MAC® LNG fuel supply control system (MAC is the abbreviation of MARIC Automation Control) developed by the 708th Research Institute of CSSC successfully obtained the product Type Approval certificate and Prototype Approval Certificate by classification society Bureau Veritas (BV).
This also marks the first type approval certificate for LNG fuel supply control system issued by BV in China.
The product has complete independent intellectual property rights, adopts a distributed control system (DCS), has the characteristics of stability, reliability, high safety, and high level of intelligence. It has reached the international leading level and is ready for actual ship application.
During the research and development and testing process, the 708th Research Institute adopted advanced multi-field and multi-disciplinary digital joint simulation technology to build a simulation test platform for the LNG fuel supply system and conducted control system interface through a virtual simulation.
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