Doosan Fuel Cell formed a consortium with Shell and three others to test operate maritime fuel cells, the company.
The consortium includes London-based Shell, Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE), HyAxiom — Doosan Fuel Cell’s U.S. subsidiary in Connecticut — and DNV, an Oslo-based marine shipping registrar.
The five members signed a deal to jointly develop and test a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) for ships, a device to generate electricity by oxidizing fuels, at Westin Josun Hotel in central Seoul.
SOFC technology is expected to help cut carbon emissions in the freight industry.
The consortium hopes to develop a SOFC system for ships by 2024 and test operate it through 2025. The plan is to install a 600-kilowatt SOFC system in a freight vessel as an auxiliary power unit and operate a performance demonstration of the ship for a…