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Danish ship driver Norden A/S has actually participated in a collaboration with Kvasir Technologies, a spin-out from the Technical University of Denmark that has a copyrighted innovation to generate gas from plant product.
“At Norden, we want to drive the shipping industry towards a cleaner future. If we are to truly make a difference, testing fuel alternatives is the right starting point,” states Henrik Røjel, Fuel Efficiency as well as Decarbonization Manager at Norden.
Kvasir Technologies concentrates on changing the component of biomass referred to as lignin as well as utilizing it in gas manufacturing. Lignin is a papermaking by-product frequently shed in pulp mills as gas. It’s a natural copolymer discovered in timber– as well as it’s what makes newspaper transform yellow, which is why it is eliminated in making greater qualities of paper.
There are a variety of methods to transform biomass to fluid gas. Kvasir’s innovation sticks out as it has the ability to transform not just cellulose however additionally lignin right into a fluid biofuel item.
“This project will demonstrate the suitability of our biofuel as bunkers and further accelerate the technological development,” states Joachim Bachmann Nielsen, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER at Kvasir Technologies.
Finding far better as well as greener choices to nonrenewable fuel source is a high top priority for Norden which, in 2018, came to be the initial delivery business to perform an examination trip on a huge ocean-going vessel powered by carbon dioxide neutral biofuel.
“Norden wants to be a front runner in this phase of experimentation and help gather intelligence that will hopefully make a positive impact on greenhouse gas emissions and help the industry reach the ambitious goal for 2050 set by the International Maritime Organisation,” states Røjel. “In the effort to be a front runner, Norden is assisting in the testing and development of biofuel on its owned vessels while working on making biofuel a standard on the company’s long-term chartered vessels.”
A full-blown examination of Kvasir’s gas will certainly be performed on among Norden’s vessels at a later phase throughout theplanned 3 as well as a fifty percent year partnership, where the function is to attain far better expertise of the attributes of biofuel as well as show its viability for future usage.
The biofuel partnership in between Norden as well as Kvasir Technologies belongs to ShippingLab– a joint sector campaign targeted at creating Danish capabilities in the areas of digitalization, independent delivery as well as eco-friendly innovation.
