On the eve of the Poseidon International Maritime Exhibition, HD Korea Shipbuilding & Marine held an International Technology Forum in Athens, Greece, on May 31, where it unveiled a series of world-leading technologies, such as its self-developed Integrated Ammonia Scrubber and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ship Management System, and Remote Unmanned Vehicle System, for ammonia-fuelled power vessels, in front of more than 100 shipbuilders and shipping professionals from all over the world. Scrubber, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ship Management System and Remote Unmanned Aircraft System.
Currently, the world's major shipping companies are accelerating the development of ammonia-fuelled power vessels as zero-carbon ships, the core issue of which is to safely eliminate the toxicity risks of ammonia fuel. Major shipowners such as the Belgian shipowner Euronav, the Greek shipowner Thenamaris, and Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK), who participated in this international technology forum, expressed great concern about how to address the risk of fuel leakage in the process of commercialisation of the use of ammonia as a marine fuel.
In response, HD Korea Shipbuilding & Marine announced at the forum an integrated ammonia scrubber technology that enhances the stability of ammonia-fuelled power vessels. The scrubber is a next-generation environmentally friendly technology that absorbs the discharged ammonia gas in two stages and reduces emissions to zero. In addition, the technology has been designed to further enhance safety by separating the exhaust port from the crew's living space.
HD Korea Shipbuilding & Marine also publicly unveiled an AI ship management system and a remote drone system that it is developing in-house. HD Korea Shipbuilding & Marine emphasised that if these systems are applied to ammonia-fuelled power vessels, they can prevent accidents by detecting the source of trace leakage of liquid ammonia in real time.
Park Seung-young, President of HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, said, ‘HD Hyundai has the world's largest track record of building gas carriers and proprietary technologies. The company will lead the future ship market based on its long-accumulated experience in environmental technology.’
In October last year, HD Korea Shipbuilding & Marine announced that it had changed the contract for two 46,000-cubic-metre medium-sized LPG carriers, which it had signed with Belgian owner Exmar in March last year, from the use of LPG dual-fuel engines to the use of ammonia-powered dual-fuel engines in accordance with the owner's request. These will be the first ocean-going vessels in the world to be powered by dual-fuel ammonia engines, which can run on either ammonia or LPG fuel, and can be operated with near-zero emissions when running on ammonia fuel. The new vessels will be equipped with X52DF-A engines supplied by WinGD, and the fuel supply system will come from Wärtsilä Gas Solution, which is one of the world's first WinGD ammonia-fueled This is one of the first WinGD ammonia-fuelled engines in operation in the world.
To date, HD Korea Shipbuilding & Marine has received orders for four ammonia fuelled vessels.
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