Last 24 and 25 September, Amsterdam hosted the The Maritime Decarbonisation, Europe: Conference, Awards & Exhibition 2024, a crucial platform for industry stakeholders to explore strategies and solutions for achieving low-carbon and zero-emission shipping. Some highlights of the programme conference included (i) alternative fuels, (ii) operational efficiency of marine fuel for green ports and (iii) emissions-reduction technologies through onboard carbon capture and storage technologies.

Henrik Lund Frandsen – Professor at the Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Solid State Electrochemistry of the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) – gave the presentation “Fuel cells for ammonia-powered ships: what efficiency gains can we expect?” within Session 5: New Perspectives on Decarbonisation Pathways. 

In his presentation, Prof. Frandsen presented the aims and scope of the AMON Project and how the ammonia and solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) system works. He also outlined the challenges and complications involved in using an SOFC run on ammonia and showed a simulated efficiency of an ammonia fuelled SOFC system as compared to an ammonia fuelled ICE. Last but not least, Prof. Frandsen described the efficiency gains expected in using fuel cells for ammonia-powered ships and also spoke about methanol based fuel cells, as an alternative in what AMON is doing.

More information: https://www.rivieramm.com/recent-events/maritime-decarbonisation-europe1