Karrie Trauth, senior vice chairman at Shell Shipping and Maritime (heart) and different signatories to the SOFC gasoline cell consortium settlement.
Under a consortium settlement signed in Seoul in the present day, Hyundai Heavy Industries Group will set up a 600 kW high-efficiency stable oxide gasoline cell (SOFC) for energy technology on a 174,000 cubic-meter LNG service that will likely be operated by Shell from 2025. Based on this, the shipbuilder plans to develop and provide high-efficiency, eco-friendly ships that may apply gasoline cells to propulsion energy sources in the long run.
The LNG service will use gasoline cells as an auxiliary energy unit (APU) in a one 12 months demonstration on the ship’s precise commerce route.
Hyundai Heavy Industries Group will construct the ship, design and set up the SOFC placements, and combine the ship system.
Shell will handle and function the ship and can handle and function the demonstration challenge. Doosan Fuel Cell and East Hartford, Conn., headquartered Doosan Group subsidiary HyAxiom will develop and provide gasoline cells for the ship. DNV will present technical and security experience.
The settlement signing ceremony was attended by Samhyun Ka, vice chairman and CEO of KSOE (Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering), the intermediate holding firm of Hyundai Heavy Industries Group’s shipbuilding sector); Sungjoon Kim, head of KSOE’s Advanced Research Center; Karrie Trauth, senior vice chairman at Shell Shipping and Maritime; Jeff Hyungrak Chung, president and CEO of HyAxiom; Hooseok Che, govt vice chairman and chief working officer of Doosan Fuel Cell; and Vidar Dolonen, Regional Manager, Korea & Japan, DNV.
“This consortium and the cutting-edge technology we’re pioneering could help deliver less carbon-intensive operations in the near term while unlocking a pathway to net-zero through the blending of conventional and alternative fuels until zero-carbon options are available at scale,” mentioned Shell’s Karrie Trauth. “We’re excited to be collaborating with some of the leading names in shipping who share a vision of a zero-emission industry and are working hard to progress shipping decarbonization.”
In addition to taking part on this consortium, Hyundai Heavy Industries Group is growing its personal SOFC applied sciences to advertise gasoline cell improvement tasks.
