Amogy to test ammonia-to-power platform for shipping usage
US-based sustainable energy start-up Amogy has inked a deal to test its 200 kilowatts (kW) ammonia-to-power platform at Sustainable Energy Catapult Center’s testing facility in Stord, Norway.
PHOTO: Company representatives at the deal signing ceremony. Amogy
Through this move, Amogy intends “to demonstrate the viability of its platform for decarbonizing maritime vessels.” Before installing the 200 kW platform on a tug boat later this year, the start-up will initially concentrate on testing it thoroughly. It plans to utilise Sustainable Energy Catapult Center's testing facility for all kinds of rigorous testing.
Amogy’s ammonia-to-power platform utilises ammonia cracking technology - a process by which ammonia is decomposed towards hydrogen and nitrogen over a catalyst. The process can extract hydrogen onboard a vessel to fuel a hydrogen engine. Thus, the company believes that the platform can be scaled up to decarbonise larger vessels.
The system has been previously tested in a drone, tractor and class 8 category semi-trucks. The company aims to develop similar technology for maritime usage.
It intends to pursue a 1 MW ammonia-powered tug boat demonstration and retrofit an inland barge with its platform in partnership with Southern Devall, a towboat and barge company.
The company believes that testing at the facility in Stord will be crucial to its “efforts to pilot and commercialize its ammonia-to-power platform in oceangoing vessels as well as maritime industry net zero and emissions reductions goals.”
“Implementing ammonia as one of the future fuels for the maritime sector, can prove to be a game-changer when it comes to eliminating emissions in shipping,” said Sustainable Energy’s chief executive Willie Waagen.
By Tuhin Roy
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