Hydrogen tanker

A hydrogen tanker is a tank ship designed for transporting liquefied hydrogen.

Port aft view of the world's first liquid hydrogen tanker, Suiso Frontier, at the Kawasaki Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard on October 18, 2020

Research

The World Energy Network research program of the Japanese New Sunshine Project was divided into 3 phases[1] during the period 1993 to 2002, its goal was to study the distribution of liquid hydrogen with hydrogen tankers[2] based on the LNG carrier technology of self-supporting tank designs such as the prismatic and spherical tank. Further research on maritime transport of hydrogen was done in the development for safe utilization and infrastructure of hydrogen project (2003–2007).[3]

Similar to an LNG carrier the boil off gas can be used for propulsion of the ship.

The "Suiso Frontier" collected a cargo of liquid hydrogen from the port of Hastings in Victoria, Australia on 28 January 2022 and arrived back in Kobe, Japan at the end of February, 2022 with the cargo.[4] A second cargo was collected from the Hastings terminal in May, 2022 with a return to Japan in June 2022.[5]

See also

References
  1. Phase 3 - Development of Fundamental Technologies in the Safe Utilization of Hydrogen
  2. 1998 - Studies of the large-scale sea transportation of liquid hydrogen
  3. Development for safe utilization and infrastructure of hydrogen
  4. "Suiso Frontier brings world's 1st LH2 shipment to Japan". 25 February 2022.
  5. "SUISO FRONTIER, LPG Tanker - Details and current position - IMO 9860154". VesselFinder. Retrieved 2022-07-20.


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