Ship&Offshore | Issue GreenTech/2022
‘Beyond green’ process to collect plastic waste and make hydrogen
New York-based H2-Industries, an energy storage specialist, and naval architecture company, Technolog Services of Hamburg, are to collaborate on drawing up 3D designs for a ship to collect plastic waste from the sea, convert it into clean hydrogen, and enable any surplus to be shipped ashore. This combination of gathering plastic waste at sea and using it to produce sustainable hydrogen has been described as ‘beyond green’ or ‘greener than green’. The ship, likely to be more than 150m long, will travel at four knots with two smaller vessels towing a two-mile net that collects waste from the surface of the sea down to a depth of 10m....