We power decarbonization
With our products and services, we operate right where the major drivers of economic and ecological progress are located. We are aware of this responsibility and are therefore already offering system technologies that help our customers increase the efficiency of their plants and applications, and reduce emissions.
However, we focus on tomorrow by investing in promising technologies like Battery Hybrid, Green Hydrogen, Power-to-X or Energy Storage.
Low carbon marine solutions
Half the world´s shipping sails under the power of MAN Energy Solutions and each step we take to make our engines more efficient can have a measurable effect on the environment and our customer’s bottom line.
We believe that the future belongs to synthetic fuels generated from renewable energy sources. On this road, LNG is not the end goal, but an investment in the future as all such engines can run on carbon-free fuels without further technical adaptions.
However, the Maritime Energy Transition requires more than just one solution. To this end, we offer MAN ECO CONTROL, a portfolio of technologies that help our marine customers to optimize a ship’s performance in terms of emissions, energy efficiency, economy and operation and let them benefit from smart processes, efficient operation and predictive maintenance services.
Our solutions help reduce ship's emissions, improve efficiency, utilize cleaner fuels and thus meet all current and future regulations while ensuring a lower impact on the environment.
Low carbon energy solutions
A carbon-neutral future needs renewable energies. However, the major challenge remains in their integration into existing energy systems.
This is why we at MAN Energy Solutions develop various hybrid and storage technologies for the energy systems of tomorrow.
When it comes to ensuring reliability and securing the energy supply, MAN offers unparalleled expertise and experience in power generation, combined with the right products and solutions to suit diverse energy markets.
Beyond this, novel decarbonization solutions are another part of MAN Energy Solutions’ portfolio. For example, Power-to-X or clean hybrid and ultra-efficient power plants.
Our customers benefit from the latest technologies – including our smart energy management systems, which ensure the most environmentally friendly, economical energy sources for power production.
Low carbon Oil & Gas solutions
MAN Energy Solutions offers intelligent, sustainable solutions and unique technologies for all sectors of the oil and gas industry. Our solutions are designed to reduce waste and minimize resource consumption along the entire value chain – from refinery to transport, and during the processing of these valuable resources.
For instance, our groundbreaking MAN Subsea technology is supporting the lifetime extension of Norway´s main gas field, Asagard, by another 15 years.
Moreover, MAN Energy Solutions is supplying technologies for carbon capture and storage (CSS), which is increasingly taking center stage in the industry and politics alike.
Low carbon Process Industry solutions
The manufacturing and refining sectors of the global economy are incredibly diverse. However, all industries have one thing in common: the need for sustainable, efficient and cost-effective solutions in order to reduce emissions and industrial waste.
MAN Energy Solutions offers a wide array of specialized products and solutions that cater to the specific needs of diverse industries - from paper to pipeline, from fertilizer to ferrous metals. MAN products are found in both the largest industrial plants in the world and in smaller, single-site operations.
Low carbon service solutions
As sustainability becomes a focal point for our customers’ business, so it becomes a priority for our services. Limiting waste in materials, work force and energy consumption is not just for new installations and products, it is also crucially important for maintenance, repair and retrofits.
The latest solutions for retrofits and upgrades by MAN PrimeServ ensure energy efficiency, cut greenhouse emissions, and minimize the carbon footprint of any installation. Our solutions not only help tackle efficiency challenges but offer future-proof, cost-aware options to sharpen our customers’ competitive edge.
To help meet the challenges of a transforming energy market and ever-stricter regulations, we monitor global and local market trends and regulatory and legislative requirements. To guarantee state-of-the-art service solutions from a single source, we always keep a 360° perspective on important markets, OEM expertise and third-party competence.
Latest news on decarbonization
MAN ETES: German State Funds Cross-Sector, Energy-Storage Solution
As part of the ‘progres.nrw’ funding program, German state, North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), is providing funding of €200,000 for a technical and economic-evaluation study of the new MAN ETES energy-storage technology. This still-untested technology offers the potential of a CO2-free alternative to traditional, large-scale, heat supply.
Project partners – RWTH Aachen University, Stadtwerke Aachen Aktiengesellschaft (STAWAG) and MAN Energy Solutions – want to investigate the potential for implementing the technology in NRW. The study will examine the necessary requirements for constructing a research facility in the Aachen area in 2021, to which end it will determine consumer requirements, the energy industry’s framework-conditions, and space requirements. An electrothermal electricity-storage system with a capacity of up to 7 MW is planned.
"In the course of expanding renewable-energy sources, storage technologies are becoming increasingly important for securing future energy-supplies. MAN ETES is a potential candidate, which stores excess electrical energy in the form of heat and cold. Today, the process for generating heat and cold is mainly based on fossil fuels. We must therefore make the growing share of renewable energies available to this sector in order to sustainably reduce emissions," said Prof. Dr. Manfred Wirsum, Director of the Institute of Power Plant Technology, Steam and Gas Turbines (IKDG) at RWTH Aachen University and coordinator of the study.
Dr. Uwe Lauber, CEO of MAN Energy Solutions, said: "With our innovative technology solution, we want to contribute to the planned reduction of fossil fuels in NRW's electricity and heat supply and thus provide concrete support for the structural change of the energy sector in the state. Sector coupling is a decisive step on the way to a climate-neutral future. MAN ETES provides renewable energy – in the form of usable and storable heat and cold – that can be converted back into electricity as required. The system thus couples the electricity, heating and cooling-supply sectors with unprecedented flexibility."
"We are very pleased that we at STAWAG can contribute to the project's success, especially from the user side, with our district-heating network and operating experience," said Frank Brösse, Managing Director of STAWAG Energie GmbH and responsible for STAWAG's heating division. "As energy-transition pioneers, we have long been involved with the various storage technologies and sector coupling in the electricity and heat sector."
The basic principle of ETES technology is the reversible conversion of electrical energy into thermal energy, which is stored in the form of hot water and ice in insulated reservoirs. A special feature of the electrothermal process is the added – or even preferable – possibility of distributing the heat and cold generated to users depending on demand and margins, and accordingly offering the option of converting it back into electricity as an additional usage variant. The technology fulfills two important tasks: on the one hand, it helps with maintaining the grid balance by absorbing large amounts of surplus electricity from renewable energies and feeding it back into the grid when needed; on the other, the system integrates several sectors by generating, storing and providing thermal energy for heating and cooling purposes.
The system's properties are highly relevant for urban regions with a strong industrial base, such as North Rhine-Westphalia, with the traditionally-high energy requirements of its strong industrial sector and the planned phase-out of its coal-based electricity generation. The state supports the research association coordinated by RWTH Aachen University, which will develop a concept for an ETES research facility for an emission-free heating-and-cooling supply based on an evaluation study. Provided that the framework conditions of the energy industry are correct and feasibility can be validated, the construction of a pilot plant with an electricity-to-electricity storage efficiency of approx. 50% will take place in 2021.
At the same time, the study will serve as a basis for the further technological development of ETES’ system components. The system is based on heat-pump and heat-engine technologies using CO2 charging-&-discharging cycles, and the storage of pumped heat. ETES innovations include the use of water as a storage medium, as well as toxicologically and environmentally safe CO2 as a working medium for the entire energy-storage system.
The turbomachinery technology and the process design of CO2 cycles are the key elements of ETES and reflect MAN Energy Solutions' core competences. In the charging cycle, the system uses the hermetically-sealed MAN HOFIM® turbo-compressor to compress the CO2 working medium to a supercritical state, typically at 140 bar and approx. 120°C to 150°C.Documents
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