Class Society RINA revealed the JDP with Maran Dry Management and Shanghai Merchant Ship Design & Research Institute (SDARI) will see the design of a 210,000DWT bulk carrier, which will be based on a propulsion arrangement to reduce the running machinery at sea and combine the ship’s fuel (LNG) with steam to produce hydrogen and carbon dioxide.
According to the project partners, the solution addresses existing LNG bunkering facilities, requiring no onshore hydrogen infrastructure with no need for supply and storage of hydrogen on board.
H2 View understands the design is based on a pre-combustion carbon capture principle, whether carbon dioxide is captured from the splitting of LNG molecules before combustion in the engine, rather than from exhaust gas emissions.
“This JDP agreement will give us a highly competitive bulk carrier design that will exceed IMO’s current 2050 targets and ultimately get to near-zero emissions,” said, Babis Kouvakas, Managing Director at Maran Dry Management.
The IMO, a UN body, mandated that shipbuilders should reduce carbon emissions by 40% by 2030 and at least 50% by 2050.
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Kouvakis added, “The project demonstrates our strong commitment and active role in the decarbonisation goals set by IMO, providing a pioneering concept, unique to the bulk carriers segment and the shipping industry as a whole, setting a leading example to exceed the current and projected emissions reduction targets, while demonstrating an innovative sustainable path for the future of shipping.
“The design will allow us to run the vessel on increasing percentages of hydrogen, lowering emissions over time, to meet the increasingly stringent rating thresholds towards 2050.”
Paolo Moretti, CEO at RINA Services, commented, “This is a practical solution and a practical application. It is great that a pioneering company such as Maran Dry Management is taking on this project, which we hope will be the first of many vessels that adopt this technology to meet decarbonisation targets.”
Wang Gang Yi, Chief Engineer at SDARI, said, “This is an exciting design that enables shipowners to work towards IMO 2050 with confidence, as it does not rely on the availability of new fuels or additional technological developments to maintain the ship’s A rating going forward.”
H2 View’s Hydrogen Mobility Snap Summit – November 29
With the mobility pillar consistently a hot topic for hydrogen markets and arguably the most anticipated and relatable application of the energy transition, H2 View stages a Mobility Snap Summit this November to summarise the progress made in 2022 and look ahead to what’s still to come.
Infrastructure challenges remain. Questions linger over policy and implementation. Many wonder which strand of the transport sector will blaze the trail in hydrogen power first, and likewise which region. There are clear challenges ahead, yet considerable progress made in 2022 and bright spots ahead in 2023 and beyond.
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