The Hydrogen Zero Emission Maritime (HyZEM) project will receive GB\u00a31.44 million from Innovate UK and a similar sum from Australia\u2019s Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, in order to develop low-carbon green hydrogen technology for high powered workboats in both countries.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis news highlights the rapid innovation-driven growth occurring within the Freeport and marks the third consortium funding success Freeport East has achieved in the past year,\u201d said Steve Beel, chief executive of Freeport East.<\/p>\n
\u201cFreeport East is demonstrating how we can be an enabler of green technology solutions and support UK businesses to succeed overseas. These innovations will also support our broader efforts to drive transport decarbonisation at both the local and international scale\u201d<\/p>\n
Accelerating adoption<\/strong><\/p>\n The project environpartnership was facilitated by Freeport East and includes leading UK and Australian businesses specialising in green hydrogen storage and propulsion technologies.<\/p>\n Its goal is to reduce the risks of deployment of new technology and accelerate the adoption of marine green hydrogen.<\/p>\n The HyZEM project aims to demonstrate practical applications for green hydrogen storage and propulsion on vessels, including bunkering technology, port storage, refueling infrastructure and how it will support local supply chains.<\/p>\n Freeport East aims to support deployment in the regions\u2019 ports, with the number of tugs, workboats and offshore wind vessels in Harwich and Felixstowe making these technologies of particular relevance.<\/p>\n The partnership includes Steamology as lead, National Composites Centre (NCC), Duodrive Limited, Chartwell Marine Limited and The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult. The Australian sister project is led by Rux Energy Australia.<\/p>\n Steamology brings to the table its zero-emission hydrogen steam turbines, while Duodrive Limited brings expertise in electric contra-rotating marine propulsion. CTV designer Chartwell Marine Limited is also involved, working to improve vessel efficiency.\u202f<\/p>\n Through the project, Freeport East and ORE Catapult will further support regional innovation, as well as building collaborations between SMEs, global industry, and academia in offshore renewable energy.\u202f<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the National Composites Centre (NCC) and Rux Energy\u2019s Australian consortium will lead next generation hydrogen storage systems development dovetailing Rux\u2019s breakthroughs in advanced nanoporous materials with innovations in carbon composite tanks, delivering step changes in efficiency, safety and costs for high powered work boats like tugboats and crew-transfer vessels.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An international green hydrogen project spearheaded by FreePort East in the UK and involving partners both in the UK and Australia has received significant investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[175,264,917,36,1630,362,485,35],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-fuels-greenport","category-projects-initiatives-greenport","tag-australia","tag-bunkering","tag-freeport-east","tag-green-hydrogen","tag-port-storage","tag-port-vessels","tag-projects","tag-uk"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368","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=4368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4370,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368\/revisions\/4370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4368"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}