By: Karmactive Staff
Amogy launched the world's first carbon-free ammonia-powered maritime vessel, the NH3 Kraken, which recently made its maiden voyage.
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NH3 Kraken is a retrofitted tugboat from 1957 that traveled along a Hudson River tributary for a breakthrough zero-emissions maritime technology.
This accounts for part of the IMO's ambition to attain net-zero emissions from worldwide shipping by 2050, where, in this case, ammonia has been revealed as a potential maritime fuel.
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Amogy CEO, Seonghoon Woo, noted this goes a long way in showing the level at which ambitious global carbon reduction targets are possible.
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The NH3 Kraken based its technology on splitting liquid ammonia into hydrogen and nitrogen, producing power using a fuel cell without carbon emissions.
The green ammonia utilized in the NH3 Kraken was solely produced with renewable energy, decreasing the carbon footprint further.
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Shipping accounts for around 1 billion tons of greenhouse gases annually. That is a carbon footprint equivalent to the emissions of one G7 country. Decarbonizing this sector is going to be critical in bringing down those emissions.
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The confirmed voyage by Amogy in ammonia power is strengthening the transformative potential of ammonia as a sustainable maritime fuel.