Utilizing Ammonia in an FCEV Truck – Gas Smarts
A retrofitted 2018 Freightliner Cascadia was powered by Amogy’s ammonia-to-power system.
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Amogy, an organization that gives ammonia-based, emission-free, excessive energy-density energy options, has examined an ammonia-powered, zero-emission semi truck.
After integrating its know-how right into a 5 kW drone in July 2021 and 100kW John Deere tractor in Might 2022, the corporate scaled its ammonia-to-power know-how to 300 kW. Following an eight-minute-long fueling, the truck, having 900 kWh of complete saved web electrical power, was examined for a number of hours on the campus of Stony Brook College in New York.
The Amogy staff will subsequent pursue a full-scale testing on a take a look at observe to showcase the truck’s efficiency underneath numerous real-world working situations.
This newest presentation was executed to show ammonia to be a viable, sustainable answer for heavy-duty trucking industries. Amogy officers say they suppose the ammonia-to-power system can allow the trucking trade’s transition away from diesel-powered engines and to various fuel-to-power applied sciences.
Amogy’s know-how allows the on-board cracking of ammonia into hydrogen, which is then despatched straight right into a gas cell to energy the automobile. Liquid ammonia has an power density that’s roughly 3 times higher than compressed hydrogen and it requires considerably much less power, making it cost-effective to retailer and transport, the corporate stated.
A world commodity, 200 million tons of ammonia are already produced and transported annually.
“Past its unimaginable energy-density and liquid part at an ambient temperature, ammonia is an optimum gas to attain fast decarbonization of heavy transportations as a result of it’s accessible globally with current infrastructure already in place,” Amogy CEO Seonghoon Woo stated in a press release. “This achievement not solely showcases Amogy’s know-how as an accessible and scalable answer for trucking, it additionally highlights the capabilities and dedication of our excellent staff. First it was an ammonia-powered drone, then a tractor, and now a truck. Within the close to future, we stay up for additional scaling and tackling different hard-to-abate sectors, comparable to world transport.”
Amogy will proceed to pursue strategic partnerships throughout the worldwide transport and transportation industries. This consists of the corporate’s 1 MW-scale ammonia-powered tugboat to be offered later in 2023, and different business deployments with companions together with a not too long ago introduced inland barge retrofit mission with Southern Devall.
