Amogy equips Southern Devall tank barge with its ammonia-to-power tech

Amogy and Southern Devall, an organization that specialises in shifting bulk liquid chemical substances and fertilisers, have agreed on a strategic collaboration and know-how deployment challenge.   

Underneath the settlement, Amogy’s ammonia-to-power system shall be built-in right into a tank barge for the primary time, enabling the industrial debut of Amogy’s know-how within the maritime sector.

The partnership with Southern Devall will give Amogy entry to main ammonia infrastructure. It is going to additionally permit Southern Devall to spotlight the know-how’s scalable function for inland barge functions.

Utilized in gasoline cells, Amogy’s ammonia-to-power system converts ammonia into hydrogen.

Since reaching operational validation in a tractor and a drone, the know-how is being developed to be used in ships and ammonia bunkering barges to assist web zero targets.

On this regard, the 2 events have commenced work for the primary deployment of the know-how. The challenge is anticipated to be accomplished by the top of subsequent 12 months.

Submit barge integration and testing, Amogy and Southern Devall will give attention to additional barge and tugboat retrofits to type an ammonia-powered fleet.

Amogy CEO Seonghoon Woo mentioned: “Southern Devall shares Amogy’s ardour for driving innovation, making them the proper strategic companion to assist our industrial entrance to the US maritime market.

“In collaboration with their group, we’ll have a first-mover benefit on this house by expanded entry to the ammonia infrastructure and business information, setting us on observe to reveal our platform’s operational capabilities in giant maritime vessels.”

Southern Devall Engineering vice-president Sam Lewis mentioned: “Amogy has constructed a formidable platform that our group believes is a perfect answer for introducing cost-efficient, zero-carbon bunkering and powering operations to the inland barge business.

“Adopting their answer at scale in our fleet has each environmental and financial advantages by elevated supply quantity. We look ahead to demonstrating the worth of ammonia-to-power options in our first challenge with Amogy and introducing business and channel companions to those improvements.”