Japanese shipbuilder
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(J-POWER) in 2016, with the aim of promoting hydrogen as fuel source.The vessel disposes 8,000 tons in gross tonnage and is designed to transport large quantities of liquefied hydrogen at 1/800 of its original gas-state volume, cooled to 253C, over long distances by sea.
It has a diesel-electric propulsion system and can achieve a speed of 13 knots. The ClassNK-classed vessel has the capacity to carry 25 people.
Kawasaki plans to install a 1,250 m3 vacuum-insulated, double-shell-structure liquefied hydrogen storage tank, currently being manufactured at Harima Works, on the ship and complete the vessel's construction by late 2020."Once complete, the Susiso Frontier will be used for technology demonstration testing in Japanese FY 2020 aimed at the establishment of an international hydrogen energy supply chain in which liquefied hydrogen produced in
The pilot project is planned for 2020-2021, and it will demonstrate brown coal gasification and hydrogen refining at
In addition, a consortium comprising Kawasaki,
"In 1981, Kawasaki became the first Asian company to manufacture a liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier, and now as the world's first company to complete a liquefied hydrogen carrier it will further its efforts toward achieving a hydrogen society," the company added.
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