Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powered Yacht

Sinot yacht architecture design and lateral naval architects made waves in monaco last week when they introduced aqua their strikingly stylish 376 foot long liquid hydrogen powered superyacht.

Hydrogen fuel cell powered yacht.

Hydrogen can be supplied as a pure gas held in tanks or manufactured on site through several processes including solar collectors wind powered electrolysis. The netherlands which has committed to fossil free ferries and norway an earlier adopter of diesel electricand electric only ferries are both leaning towards hydrogen fuel cell technology for marine application. Hydrogen powered vehicles have already hit global markets albeit with. The 376 foot concept yacht aqua will be powered by hydrogen fuel.

Aqua has large hydrogen capacity two 28 ton tanks for an operating range of 3 750 nautical miles at 17 knots. Upon completion the yacht would be powered by liquid hydrogen and fuel cell technology and emit only water in addition to having all the lavish trappings of the typical luxury superyacht. Hydrogen fuel cells offer a mobile silent form of power that can be useful for recharging batteries in place of generators. Not to produce electricity through a fuel cell.

Monaco yacht show unveils its biggest superyacht fleet ever groundbreaking technology renderings for aqua a 112 meter superyacht concept powered by liquid hydrogen and fuel cell technology. The telegraph claims former microsoft chief has tasked feadship with building a vessel inspired by sinot s aqua the world s first hydrogen fuel cell based superyacht the roughly 644 million. Previously craft have been powered using hydrogen fuel cells but it doesn t appear there s been a boat running on hydrogen in a traditional internal combustion engine the island hydrogen project forms part of a government funded project through innovate uk which has also enabled the opening of a refuelling station near the m1 in. The proton exchange membrane pem fuel cells generating power of four mw to support the hotel functions and the electric engines one mw each with contra rotating propellers and voith schneider propellers.