Advantages Of Switching To LNG

Mauritius is planning to introduce Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) to the power-generation sector for the first time.

Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)

LNG is a clean and relatively environment-friendly energy source. It has been considered that coal has the world's largest known fossil fuel reserves of 900TWyr compared to LNG (215TWyr) and fuel oil (240TWyr). Therefore, with the escalating demand for LNG around the world, the price stability of LNG should also be carefully analysed with that of Coal/HFO.

The main combustible matters that liberate heat during the combustion of conventional heat sources (e.g. LNG, biomass, coal, fuel oil, etc.) are Carbon and Hydrogen. The Carbon to Hydrogen ratio in LNG (3 to 1) is relatively lower than that of fuel oil (7 to 4) and coal (13 to 6).

The gross calorific value of LNG (52,358 kJ/kg) is higher than that of fuel oil (43,942 kJ/kg) and coal (26,365 kJ/kg). LNG combustion technologies' combustion efficiency and heat transfer performance are relatively higher than those of systems burning the other two commodities.

LNG as a Clean and Efficient Fuel

Since these power plants operate far from the end-user, the remaining 60% of heat is released into the environment as waste heat.…