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Joint Project Claims Ammonia Should be Used in Fuel Cells for Shipping, Not Engines
Ammonia will be more effective as a source of energy for the shipping industry if used in fuel cells rather than burned in engines, according to a new industry group seeking to develop the technology.
Alfa Laval, DTU Energy, Haldor Topsoe, Svitzer and the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping have launched a joint project to accelerate the development of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), the organisations said in an emailed statement Monday.
The SOFC4Maritime project will take ammonia-based fuel cells as its initial focus.
"By electrochemically converting fuel into electricity, SOFCs can potentially produce power with higher efficiency than internal combustion engines running on the same fuel – without creating polluting emissions or particulates," the organisations said in the statement.
"Ammonia-based SOFCs are especially attractive, since ammonia can be produced in large scale using renewable electricity and no biomass resource."
In November classification society ABS signed a deal with Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering to develop the use of SOFCs on board VLCCs.
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