Lynn Loo, Chief Executive Officer at the Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation, believes that the future of shipping will likely consist of a wide variety portfolio of fuels.
As Ms. Loo explains, ammonia is not the “be-all and end-all” of green fuels for shipping, as there are safety challenges associated with green ammonia as a bunkering fuel.
The future of shipping will likely comprise a heterogeneous portfolio of fuels, of which green ammonia is one. It is unrealistic to think that ammonia will be the singular future fuel
As for tackling safety challenges, the Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation has commissioned a study to define the safety and operations envelopes for ammonia bunkering in Singapore.
With Singapore being a population dense island nation and a major bunkering hub, the guidelines developed in this study will be stringent and likely extensible to ports elsewhere
said Ms. Loo.
Earlier this year, Singapore’s Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD) initiated its first invitation for proposal regarding the safety and operations for ammonia bunkering.
The project has identified a gap in terms of the safety and operations around transporting green fuels. Explaining the choice of ammonia for the first project, Prof Loo highlighted that the production of green ammonia requires three equivalents of green hydrogen to produce green ammonia, while green methanol requires three equivalents of green hydrogen, but only produces one green methanol equivalent.
