TMC Compressors (Oslo, Norway), an international supplier of compressors, is launching a boil-off gas compressor that can be utilized on all vessels fueled by liquefied natural gas (LNG).

The company says the compressor system offers both financial and environmental benefits for users, including energy efficiency gains and fuel cost reductions.

Onboard a vessel that uses LNG as fuel, heat from the surroundings increases the temperature inside the cooled down LNG fuel tanks, causing liquid to evaporate. The gas generated from this is known as boil-off gas, which is captured, compressed, and injected into the main engine as fuel by the TMC system.

TMC will offer a number of different boil-off gas compressors, ranging from 30 kW to 450 kW.