Ship&Offshore | Issue 08/2024
Ammonia research project on performance and safety
Korean Register (KR) is to collaborate with partners Hanwha Ocean, Amogy, and Hanwha Aerospace in the development, certification, and application of ammonia reformers and ammonia fuel cell systems in shipping. The classification society will oversee technical cooperation between the parties, which specialise in shipbuilding, the decarbonisation of hard-to-abate industrial sectors, and aerospace, respectively. Ammonia reformers are used to produce gas with hydrogen as the main component. This is then supplied to fuel cell stacks, which will provide the energy required for auxiliaries and hotel requirements aboard ships, and possibly also power for small vessels in the future....