Yanmar conducts high pressure ship refuelling with hydrogen
Published by Bella Weetch,
Editorial Assistant
Global Hydrogen Review,
Yanmar Power Technology (Yanmar), a Group company of Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd., has conducted one of the world's first 70 MPa high-pressure hydrogen refuelling of a ship using a demonstration test boat equipped with a hydrogen fuel cell system. The test boat cruised on a route around the island of the Osaka-Kansai World Exposition 2025 in Japan, and famous tourist spots on the city's coast.
The 70 MPa high-pressure hydrogen refuelling was carried out in co-operation with Toyota Tsusho Corporation, using a specially licensed high-pressure facility and a newly developed prototype long hydrogen refuelling hose. The 70 MPa high-pressure refuelling resulted in more than three times longer cruising time compared to the previous refuelling process. The results will be utilised for the market deployment of hydrogen fuel cell systems as well as the study of hydrogen refuelling infrastructure for ships.
Yanmar is developing a 300 kW-class maritime fuel cell system incorporating fuel cell modules supplied by Toyota Motor Corporation, addressing the potential customer demands such as ones relating to the Carbon-Neutral Port concept of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. The company aims to obtain a type approval from classification societies so that the system can be installed in various types of ships with global customers towards a planned launch to market in 2023.
Read the article online at: https://www.globalhydrogenreview.com/hydrogen/22102021/yanmar-conducts-high-pressure-ship-refuelling-with-hydrogen/
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