CAMPFIRE Partner-Workshop “Green Ammonia as Maritime Fuel for Propulsion Systems, Regulations and Safety Aspects”, 9th December 2021, Online

Our now third partner work­shop in the product cate­gory “Emis­sion-free Martime Drives”, focused on the one hand on inno­va­tive drive concepts and further on the regu­la­tory frame­work and safety aspects for ammonia. Very inspi­ring was the kick-off contri­bu­tion of Peter de Vos, TU Delft, Nether­lands, on SOFC-ICE combined hybrid systems for use as the future mari­time propul­sion systems. Martin Reißig, FTVR from Rostock, presented the poten­tial and chal­lenges of hydrogen and ammonia in combus­tion engines in another talk. The concept of an inno­va­tive membrane reactor for flame­less combus­tion of ammonia as a possible propul­sion for ship­ping, but also for statio­nary energy supply was presented by Ralf Kriegel from IKTS in Herms­dorf. The HiPowAR reactor is curr­ently being deve­loped as part of the EU project carried out by CAMPFIRE part­ners. Bert Buch­holz, Univer­sity of Rostock, gave another ground­brea­king speech presen­ting the exis­ting rese­arch tasks and chal­lenges for combus­tion and emis­sion reduc­tion of ammonia-fueled recipro­ca­ting engines, followed by a very inte­res­ting presen­ta­tion on cata­lysts for NOx and N2O reduc­tion in modern SCR systems by Roger Gläser, Univer­sity of Leipzig. As an enabler for ammonia-based ship­ping, shore-based storage systems need to be deve­loped, and we were pleased to hear a presen­ta­tion on this topic by Anke Krutof of Göhler GmbH. Another high­light was the presen­ta­tion by Carsten Spieker of GEA Group on onboard safety concepts for the use of ammonia as fuel and risk manage­ment for the toxic hazar­dous subs­tance. The IGF Code (Code of Safety for Ships using Gases or other Low-flash­point Fuels) and new deve­lo­p­ments for alter­na­tive fuels, espe­ci­ally ammonia, were presented by Benjamin Scholz, DNV, as an important set of regu­la­tions for the appr­oval of ammonia-fueled ships. We would like to thank all presen­ters, the parti­ci­pants and our mode­ra­tors Jens Wart­mann, ZBT, and Benjamin Fried­hoff, DST, for the very successful event and look forward to another year of coope­ra­tion on our common path towards ammonia-based shipping.

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