Extended Operational and Trade Vocabulary
LNG/LPG Carriers and IGC Code glossary (page 2)
The gas-carrier vocabulary anchored in the IGC Code: aeration and gas freeing, air locks separating gas-safe and gas-dangerous spaces, ambient-temperature design requirements, the regasification terminals, and the containment and size-class terms. Grounds each term in the IGC Code requirement or the gas-carrier operation it belongs to.
258 defined terms.
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V
- VLEC
- Very Large Ethane Carrier, a gas carrier of 85,000 cubic meters or more configured for ethane transport, exemplified by vessels serving Reliance Industries.
- VLGC
- Very Large Gas Carrier, ~84,000 m3 LPG.
W
- Wartsila X-DF
- Two-stroke low-pressure dual-fuel engine series using the Otto cycle, fitted on many modern LNG carriers.
- Water spray system
- Deck and manifold water curtain system required by IGC Code Chapter 11 for fire protection and cold spill protection.
- Wilhelmshaven LNG
- LNG import terminal in Lower Saxony, Germany, commissioned in late 2022 using FSRU-based regasification.
- WinGD X-DF
- Low-pressure dual-fuel two-stroke engine family.
X
- X DF
- WinGD dual fuel two stroke engine family using low pressure Otto cycle.
Z
- Zeebrugge LNG
- LNG import and small-scale distribution terminal at Zeebrugge, Belgium, operated by Fluxys LNG.