Ship Photo of the Day – World’s First Battery-Powered Retrofit-To-Be
This is Eidesvik Offshore’s LNG-powered Viking Queen, which has simply been signed on to develop into the world’s first offshore vessel to be retrofitted with shipboard battery energy.
The 2008-built Viking Queen shall be fitted with an Energy Storage System from ZEM AS with a capability of 650kWH that may provide as much as 1600kW. The hybrid system is predicted to cut back gasoline consumption by roughly 18%, thereby additional decreasing dangerous emissions by as a lot as 25%.
The mission is be carried out by Lundin Norway AS, who has the vessel on rent, ZEM AS, and Eidesvik AS. The mission is a part of the FellowSHIP mission (Fuel Cells for Low Emission Ships), a joint business R&D mission that experiments with totally built-in gasoline cells on board vessels and offshore platforms.
In 2009, Eidesvik Offshore’s LNG-powered vessel Viking Lady was constructed because the world’s first vessel to be outfitted with built-in gasoline cell know-how.
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