The king received a personal explanation from inland shipping entrepreneur Harm Lenten, the shipping company De Scheepvaartkrant reported. Its hydrogen-electric freighter Antonie (WEVA) is the world’s first newly built hydrogen-powered inland barge, the company said.
The first new-build hydrogen-powered vessel Antonie of Lenten Scheepvaart bv has received official approval from the Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine (CCNR) to sail in Europe, the company announced on 12 October.
The dry cargo vessel will transport salt for Nobian, a European firm in the production of essential chemicals for various industries, the Splash247 reported. For years, Lenten Scheepvaart has been shipping salt from Delfzijl to the Nobian plant in the Botlek. The company turns this salt into chlor-alkali, among other things, with hydrogen as a residual product. The hydrogen produced in the chlor-alkali production process will soon form the clean fuel for the Antonie. A hydrogen bunker station has now been built in Delfzijl with a subsidy.
The vessel was built at Concordia Damen, System Integrator is Oechies.
Facts and figures:
* Length of ship: 135 metres
* Annual cargo: 240,000 tonnes of salt
* Fuel cell capacity: 320kW
* Hydrogen storage pressure: 300 bar
* Battery pack size: 1100 kWh
* CO2 reduction of 880 tonnes p/y by running on green hydrogen
* Antonie consumes 1,200 kilograms of green hydrogen per round trip
* The ship can sail for up to 8 hours on the battery pack
* Around 3,850 tonnes of salt per trip; equivalent to 120 trucks
* Prestigious German Innovation Prize Binnenschifffahrt 2023
Installed frequency converters
2x B6U Inverter for propulsion 630kW
1x B6U Microgrid 75kVA for hotel load
1x Grid converter + CMS filter 800kW AC to DC bus
2x motor inverter for bow thruster, 400kW each
2x DC/DC converter 500kW battery sets
1x DC/DC converter 500kW fuel cells
1x Microgrid 75kVA for hotel load
Multiple VACON 100 drives for auxiliary equipment
In the drizzling rain, the king (with tie) receives explanations on the foredeck of ms Antonie in the port of Duisburg. Photo Judith Stalpers from site of De Scheepvaartkrant
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