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Ballard Power Systems is supplying 32 fuel cell modules with a total output of 6.4 megawatts to eCap Marine. The modules are intended to power two zero-emission container ships operated by Samskip, which will run between Norway and the Netherlands.
The Hamburg-based company eCap Marine is supplying hydrogen-based energy systems for two new vessel types. The clients are logistics group Samskip and Norwegian shipping company Møre Sjø. Commissioning is scheduled for 2027.
Air Products, a global industrial gas supplier and, by its own account, the world's largest hydrogen producer, has delivered the first batch of liquid hydrogen (LH2) to be used as fuel for the nearly 119-meter-long fuel cell superyacht "Breakthrough."
Currently they run on heavy fuel oil – a substance that is more reminiscent of tar than vehicle fuel. It’s the residue that remains after various crude oil distillation processes have been carried out. While the more volatile fractions such as kerosene, gasoline, diesel and household fuel oil are separated off for other uses, the large, robust two-stroke engines of ocean-going giants make do with the leftover black sludge which is so viscous it needs to be heated up before it can be combusted. The changeover to fuels like liquefied natural gas, LNG, has already begun but this in itself won’t be enough. That’s why an increasing number of industry players are looking to hydrogen and are now making initial attempts to embed this fueling option in seagoing vessels.
