BloombergThe world’s first carrier of liquefied hydrogen made its official debut at a shipyard in Japan, a small step toward tapping the carbon-free energy potential of the lightest element. The ship is to be used for technology demonstration to establish an international hydrogen energy supply chain by shipping the fuel from Australia to Japan, Kawasaki said in a press release. However, it is also volatile and flammable, while current production techniques are polluting and costly, the International Energy Agency said in a report in June. The ship will have storage capacity of about 1,250m3, less than 1 percent of the size of liquefied natural gas carriers. The vacuum-insulated, double-shell tank is to hold hydrogen chilled to minus-253°C, which shrinks the volume of the gas to 1/800th of its normal volume.

Source: Taipei Times December 12, 2019 15:56 UTC