What does an ammonia-ready vessel look like?
Wärtsilä Corporation, News, 1 December 2020 at 1 pm EETAs carbon-neutral fuel choices narrow, shipowners are beginning to look more closely at how existing and newbuild vessels might use clean fuels. Ammonia is near the top of the list for many shipowners.
Ammonia has traditionally been produced from hydrocarbons, although in the future there is potential for carbon capture to reduce the emission footprint of production (so called ‘blue ammonia’) or for production from renewable, non-carbon sources such as wind or solar energy (‘green ammonia’). Independent of how it is produced, ammonia