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A Dutch maritime consortium has been granted a €4.4 million government subsidy for its project to develop an LNG-ZERO concept.
The research, conducted by The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) along with the universities of Twente and Delft, is a first step to sustainable shipping as documented in the Dutch Maritime Masterplan, with its goal of realising an emission-free shipping industry.
The consortium comprises a number of energy, regulatory and infrastructure companies including Shell, Lloyd’s Register and Rotterdam-based PortXL which is keen to bring sustainable technologies for ports to market quickly.
The LNG-ZERO project aims to develop the technology and strategy needed to reduce exhaust emissions and plans a threefold approach of carbon capture, carbon storage and reduction of methane slip. Residual emissions will be offset by the use of LNG and it is hoped that these technologies can also be applied to ships running on conventional fuels.
The project has a budget of €6.1 million of which the Dutch government is supplying the majority.
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Source : Greenport
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