Franz Evegren
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Franz Evegren was a bosun a few years before becoming a Fire Safety Engineer. With an additional degree in Risk Management and Safety Engineering he ran a consultancy business for some years before becoming a research scientist at SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden. His focus the past 5 years has been development of methods for risk assessment to evaluate alternative designs of fire safety on ships.

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The World’s First Ship with Fire Safety Adapted to Methanol

The world’s first ship to run on methanol will soon sail after the fire risk assessment by SP Fire Research was approved. Methanol has for long been handled with traditional fire protection in cargo pump-rooms on tankers, but a deeper…