The trial of the Terberg hydrogen-powered terminal tractor and mobile hydrogen filling station at PSA Antwerp\u2019s Europa Terminal is the terminal\u2019s latest trial of green technology.<\/p>\n
The tractor will be deployed to move containers around the terminal for two weeks under the auspices of the Hydrolog project, a demonstrator set up by the Flanders Institute for Logistics (VIL) to map out possible types of internal hydrogen transport vehicles for the industry.<\/p>\n
Reducing emissions<\/strong><\/p>\n PSA Antwerp\u2019s carbon emissions are produced mainly from diesel-operated equipment such as straddle carriers, terminal tractors and other terminal vehicles.<\/p>\n Besides reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), the company\u2019s longterm aim is to significantly decrease Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) and Particle Matters (PM) at its terminals, improving air quality and contributing towards a better quality of life and health in the local community.<\/p>\n The experience gained from this trial will also be put towards other pilots to achieve further terminal decarbonisation.<\/p>\n For example, in its Green Straddle Carrier Program, PSA Antwerp will be setting up a proof of concept with technology partner CMB.TECH to convert diesel engines to dual-fuel (H2-diesel) on straddle carriers.<\/p>\n On 4 May 2021, the European Horizon 2020 Green Deal Call awarded the Program a grant, as part of the PIONEERS consortium (PORTable Innovation Open Network For Efficiency and Emissions Reduction Solutions).<\/p>\n The grant will allow PSA Antwerp to realise two more demonstrator projects: Exploring the injection of up to 90% of hydrogen into the straddle carrier\u2019s combustion engine and testing the performance of a straddle carrier equipped with a hydrogen fuel cell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A European terminal is trialling a hydrogen powered tractor testing the potential of hydrogen as a greener port fuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terminal-operations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1452,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions\/1452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}