{"id":4119,"date":"2024-02-28T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2024\/02\/28\/valencias-ammonia-bunker-fuel-study\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:08:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:08:52","slug":"valencias-ammonia-bunker-fuel-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/alternative-fuels-greenport\/valencias-ammonia-bunker-fuel-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Valencia\u2019s ammonia bunker fuel study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018Study on the safety of ammonia as a bunker fuel\u2019 aims to provide a framework of methodologies and technical guidance documents that will harmonise the use of ammonia as a bunker fuel throughout the port logistics sector.<\/p>\n<p>Valenciaport\u2019s&nbsp;project will focus in particular on the characterisation of ammonia as a chemical and fuel, reviewing available standards, regulations and practices.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the&nbsp;project will carry out a safety assessment and reliability analysis of some specific equipment, systems and systems; it will also assess the safety of a generic ship design and two specific ship types, to take into account specialised technical solutions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alt fuels expertise<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fundaci\u00f3n Valenciaport will bring its experience to the study in the implementation of alternative fuels in projects such as H2PORTS and POSEIDON, which involve the use of hydrogen and e-methanol as fuel.<\/p>\n<p>It will also contribute with the experience gained from the use of ammonia as cargo in the Port of Sagunto.<\/p>\n<p>The Foundation will lead the characterisation of ammonia and participate in the risk analysis tasks, as well as in the development of guidelines and recommendations for its use as a fuel.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Fundaci\u00f3n Valenciaport and ABS Hellenic, the National Technical University of Athens will collaborate in the project.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative has a budget of \u20ac450,000, co-funded by the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) and will run until June 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fundaci\u00f3n Valenciaport is working on a study on the safety of ammonia, which proposes to lay the foundations for its use as a fuel for ships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[40,43,583,1467,1468],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-fuels-greenport","category-projects-initiatives-greenport","tag-alternative-fuels","tag-ammonia","tag-bunker-fuels","tag-fundacion-valenciaport","tag-safety-study"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4121,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119\/revisions\/4121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4119"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}