Development of a demonstrator for a new type of shore-side refueling system with innovative heating station for future climate-neutral shore-to-ship ammonia refueling in the port of Rostock

The trans­port chain for green ammonia via sea starts and ends with a terminal in each case. Termi­nals ther­e­fore repre­sent land-based coll­ec­tion or distri­bu­tion hubs. As a result, they have a very signi­fi­cant infra­struc­tural func­tion. Due to this importance, the CAMPFIRE project CF10_3 onshore ammonia refue­ling plant with part­ners Univer­sity Rostock, ZBT, ISC and INP with CAMPFIRE Open Inno­va­tion Lab (COIL) is dedi­cated to deve­lo­ping a demons­trator refue­ling plant for fuel supply of ships with green ammonia in Rostock.

The goal is to develop a new type of shore-side refue­ling system with an inno­va­tive warming station to raise the tempe­ra­ture while main­tai­ning the same pressure.
Since start of the project, the team so far fixed the basic design of the heat gene­rator. In this course, the infra­struc­ture plan­ning, the basic opera­ting data and the safety inter­faces of the pilot plant at COIL were deter­mined. In parallel, a HAZID and HAZOP study were performed for a concep­tual future plant. The mode­ling of the dynamic opera­tion of refue­ling cycles was further elabo­rated by the part­ners. Curr­ently, ener­getic conside­ra­tions of large-scale shore-to-ship ammonia hand­ling are carried out.The refue­ling faci­lity is to be suitable for future climate-neutral shore-to-ship refue­ling and an initial func­tional model for opera­tion with cryo­genic and pres­sure-stored NH3 is to be imple­mented for this purpose. The results will be used to derive a concept for a future ship refue­ling faci­lity in the Rostock energy port.