YACHT NO 1 FRIEDRICHSHAFEN FUEL CELLS HYDROGEN

YACHT No 1 - MTU FRIEDRICHSHFEN

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Yacht No 1 - hydrogen fuel cell powered

MTU FRIEDRICHSHAFEN - NUMBER 1 YACHT

No. 1 is the name of a sailing yacht which is power-assisted by an electric motor that gets its electricity from hydrogen fuel cells. It is the first ever yacht to be fuel cell-powered. The boat was certified under the Germanischer Lloyd guidelines for fuel cells on ships and boats. The yacht's debut was in August 2003 in Japan, and it is commissioned at Lake Constance (Kressbronn am Bodensee).

MTU Friedrichshafen, the company that designed the boat's power system, has said that it views a move towards fuel cell-based power systems as logical given the demand for clean, quiet energy sources in leisure craft such as yachts.

Boat Specifications: 12.26 m long, width 3.76 m, 6 kg of hydrogen in 3 hydrogen tanks at 300 bar, four 1.2 kWa PEM fuel cells, 9 gel batteries, radius of action 225 km at a speed of 8 knots using the propeller. No1 Yacht is a zero emission waterborne craft or ZEWT.

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STANDARD ISO CONTAINERS - A 20m3 cryogenic tank, multi-layered vacuum insulation container in stainless steel. These units are heavier than a comparable aluminium tank such as those developed for the Space Shuttle, but they are more economical and available off the shelf. Large tanks are available from many manufacturers concerning LNG and hydrogen, where cryogenic temperatures are involved.

LH2 TRANSFERS - Cryostar (Zone Industrielle, 68220 Hésingue, France) has developed a range of liquid hydrogen piston pumps with large capacities and small footprints, as an ideal system for increasing the pressure of hydrogen. For example, the A-MRP 40/55-K LH2 cryo pumps are explosion proof skid mounted piston pumps designed for simple and safe installation for use with a liquid hydrogen source. Three different sizes are available, with capacities ranging from 6 to 190 kg/h with easy flow adjustment. They can be used with all types and makes of LH2 tanks and ISO containers.

MARINE HYDROGEN PROJECTS

2000 - The 22-person Hydra ship was demonstrated.

2003 - Duffy-Herreshoff watertaxi went into service.

2003 - Saw the debut of Yacht No. 1, and Hydroxy3000, Germanisher Lloyd, MTU Friedrichshafen

2004 - The AUV DeepC, and Yacht XV 1 were shown.

2005 - The Type 212 submarine, powered underwater by fuel cells, went into service with the German navy.

2006 - The 12-person Xperiance was debuted, as well as the Zebotec.

2007 - The 8-person Tuckerboot and the Canal boat Ross Barlow debuted.

2008 - The 100-passenger Zemships project Alsterwasser went into service in Hamburg.

2009 - The Nemo H2 and the Frauscher 600 Riviera HP went into service.

2013 - The Hydrogenesis Passenger Ferry project went into service.

2018 - HySeas III project: A consortium to build the world’s first sea-going car and passenger ferry fuelled by hydrogen fuel cell propulsion, secured EU funding. The vessel is planned to operate in and around Orkney by 2021, which is already producing hydrogen from constrained renewable energy. The project is being led by Ferguson Marine Engineering Ltd (which is also involved in SWIFTH2) and St. Andrews University.

2018 - Jules Verne 2, hydrogen-powered passenger vessel, Nantes

2020 - The car ferry MF Hydra is under construction in Norway. It uses liquid hydrogen, two 200 kW fuel cells, a 1.36 MWh battery, and two 440 kW diesel generators. The hydrogen tanks and the fuel cell are located on top of the ferry. The hydrogen is trucked from Leipzig in Germany.

2021 - The Kawasaki Suiso Frontier (New Sunshine) Project ClassNK Approval in Principle liquefied hydrogen tanker.

2023 - Norwegian Fjord cruise ship Havilla, Havyard, NES, liquid hydrogen fuel cell & battery powered

ZEWT ALORS - The solar and wind powered 'Elizabeth Swann' will feature solar collectors and wind energy harvesting apparatus in an advanced configuration. Her hull configuration is ideal to incorporate mass hydrogen storage tanks, offering ranges of up to 4,000nm on compressed gas. This yacht could circumnavigate the globe on one fill up of liquid hydrogen, cryogenically stored, with sufficient capacity with mobile bunkering, to go around the world in 80 days or less, to equal the famous Jules Verne round the globe record. We live is a world literally frying itself using fossil fuels , where anything is possible, if Cop26 yields climate friendly policies to accelerate CO2 reductions or transport emissions.

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LIQUID HYDROGEN LINKS & REFERENCE

https://www.energy-observer.org/innovations/jules-verne-2-navibus-nantes-hydrogen-propulsion

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