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ESBJERG-MOFFATT & NICHOL DIGITAL TWIN CO-OP
• The Danish seaport has teamed up with the Californian global infrastructure advisory firm specialised in port planning to develop a digital twin for Esbjerg’s future offshore wind harbour. “Port Esbjerg and the supply chain in Esbjerg have vast experience in supporting offshore wind projects, but we need to simulate the future to plan optimally today, and for this, we are excited to work with Moffatt
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& Nichol,” Dennis Jul Pedersen, the seaport’s CEO, said. “A digital twin allows Port Esbjerg to simulate every operation in context to future projects and optimise the infrastructure accordingly,” Joshua Singer, Offshore Wind Lead with Moffatt & Nichol, explained the project’s target. The Port of Esbjerg has participated in setting up 55 offshore wind parks for some 22 GW of installed capacity. • EINRIDE SELLS – DOMESTICALLY AND ABROAD
• First, Apotea, Sweden’s largest online pharmacy, will employ three lorries from the Swedish electric and autonomous trucking developers for shipment carriage from a warehouse in Morgongåva to a parcel terminal in Stockholm. Einride’s lorries will be employed all day round, thus replacing some 40-50 trucks that served the route in question. Apotea sends over one million parcels each month. The new solution is expected to start running in April 2022, saving around 4,000t of CO2 emissions in three years. Second, the Swedish
freight tech company will supply Maersk’s operations in the US with 300 electric trucks, 150 charging stations, connectivity services, and an operating system. The Class-8 vehicles of BYD’s 8TT model will be supplied in 2025-2035, with the initial delivery assembled in California. Maersk will use the fleet to electrify its warehousing, distribution, and transportation in selected US cities. The e-trucks will help Maersk bring its emissions to net-zero across the company’s business and value chain by 2040. • GEBRÜDER WEISS’ HYDROGEN TRUCK – ONE YEAR OF EMISSION-FREE OPERATIONS
• The Lauterach-based company has summarised one year of running its very-first hydrogen truck, used for daily short-distance transportation in Switzerland. The 36-tonne-truck, the Hyundai XCIENT Fuel Cell model, made 70,000 km, saving some 80t of CO2 emissions. With 7.5 kg/100 km, hydrogen consumption was lower than that specified by the truck maker. The average daily range was 430 km, allowing the 350 kW electric motor truck to operate day-round on a single fuelling (32 kg of tank capacity, refilled in about 12 minutes). Gebrüder Weiss’ hydrogen truck had to pay only one workshop visit for a technical inspection. The company plans to deploy other hydrogen trucks in Austria and southern Germany. •
• Tree Energy Solutions (TES), founded by the Belgian investment company AtlasInvest, will accelerate the set-up of the facility that, once fully commissioned, could cover 10% of Germany’s energy demand. The 25 TWh of yearly capacity Phase 1 is to be ready by winter 2025, making it possible to import & produce 0.5mt of hydrogen in the German seaport. The full-scale Wilhelmshaven Green Gas Terminal will comprise six tanks and six berths; its capacity will rise to 250 TWh/5.0mt of hydrogen by 2045. TES intends to produce green hydrogen in countries with a renewable power mix and combine it with CO2 to create an energy carrier transported to Wilhelmshaven by a purpose-built fleet. The ‘load’ will be converted back to hydrogen in the German port, with the CO2 captured for reuse in a closed-loop production-transportation system. •
Photo: TES
GEODIS-RENAULT URBAN LOGISTICS E-TRUCK CO-OP
• The two have partnered to develop Oxygen, a 16-tonne electric city truck with a total cost of ownership (TCO) comparable to that of a diesel vehicle – but without the fossil fuel externalities. With Oxygen, GEODIS and Renault Trucks want to eliminate urban road freight-related nuisances, such as pollution and noise, and increase the safety of both the drivers and city folk. The prototype’s delivery is scheduled for 2022-end. The e-truck will be trialled in Paris starting in 2023. The real-world testing will be followed by a phase of adaptation of the vehicle incorporating feedback from drivers covering comfort of use, practicality, recharging, etc. Then, a study will see how to optimise the TCO. GEODIS intends to reduce its CO2 emissions by 30% by 2030. To that end, the company will have provided carbon-free deliveries to 37 French cities by 2023. •
Photo: Renault Trucks
CATCHING MICROPLASTICS WITH SCRUBBERS
• Wärtsilä and the Grimaldi Group are trialling an open-loop exhaust gas treatment system that traps microplastic particles before the wash water returns to the sea. According to early test results, the filtration system, designed and patented by Grimaldi, efficiently captures particles smaller than 10µm, and the captured
concentration by volume equals around 76 particles/m3. A 10 MW engine will require scrubbers to process approximately 450 m3 of water per hour. Wärtsilä’s will add the microplastics filtration capability to its future wash water treatment system. All revenues from the patent licensing will go to charity. • NORSEPOWER-NAPA CO-OP
• Thanks to the partnership, NAPA Voyage Optimization software will come as an option in all future sales of Norsepower’s Rotor Sails solution, applicable to newbuilds and retrofits. The software determines
the best possible voyage plan for a vessel to maximise the energy savings, taking into account weather conditions throughout the sailing, likewise each ship’s design profile and operational requirements. • NORSEPOWER TO INSTALL ITS ROTOR SAILS ON CLDN’S RO-RO
• The 2018-built GT 74,273 Delphine will receive two 35 m tall and 5.0 m in diameter tiltable sails, said to reduce the ship’s fuel consumption & carbon emissions by 7-10%. The installation will have been completed by December 2022. The deal with CLdN is Norsepower’s seventh Rotor Sails contract and the third for the tilting version of the Finnish company’s auxiliary wind propulsion system. •
