Fuel Cell Cruise Ship

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Fuel cell cruise ship. G-CAPTAIN OCTOBER 2 2017 Viking Cruises has revealed that it is developing what could become the worlds first cruise powered by liquid hydrogen. Some cruise ship ports already require zero-emission operation. The two new vessels are said to be slated for delivery in the second quarters of 2022 and 2024 under an agreement with Finnish shipyard Meyer Turku Oy Meyer Turku.

It operates with low emissions noise and vibration and is powered by hydrogen which is reformed from methanol. The water that is produced by the fuel cell can be recovered if needed. AIDA Cruises takes further step in its Green Cruising strategy.

The fuel cell has been developed by Freudenberg Sealing Technologies as part of a research project backed by the German Government and it runs on hydrogen obtained from methanol. After a test phase on land the fuel cell will then be tested in operation for the first. As a result AIDA Cruises will be the worlds first cruise company to test the use of fuel cells on a large passenger ship.

Fuel cell powered cruise ship 1st part of long term plan The ship which should be ready for launch in 2021 is a first stage in the larger long term FreeCO 2 ast project which received funding from the Norwegian governments PILOT-E plan in 2018 to develop vessels with up to five times longer zero-emission voyages. A fuel cell runs on hydrogen obtained from methanol which also has the potential to be produced from renewable energies in the future. The integration of a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell SOFC technology on a cruise ship is a world first.

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd RCL has announced that it will utlise hydrogen fuel cell technology to provide additional power on their new liquefied natural gas LNG-powered Icon vessel class. 3 February 2020 1125 GMT Updated 5 February 2020 1420 GMT. The fuel cell is to generate energy onboard the cruise ship.

As early as 2021 AIDA Cruises will be the worlds first cruise company to test the use of fuel cells on a large passenger ship as part of the Pa-X-ell2 research project on board of AIDAnova. Methanol as an energy carrier offers good properties in terms of storage volume. This technology which operates at very high temperature approximately 750 C is the most efficient for high-power marine-like applications rather than the low-temperature Hydrogen-based Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell solutions used for instance in the.