The primary cruise ship on this planet to check a small hydrogen gasoline system at sea has been delivered at Fincantieri shipyard in Italy.
The Viking Neptune was delivered to Viking on November tenth. Though related in each option to different Viking ocean ships, this vessel is using one thing very totally different that would assist form the best way operations are powered on cruise ships.
The small hydrogen gasoline cell on Viking Neptune has a nominal energy of 100 kW and is getting used as a check to see how hydrogen gasoline can be utilized at a larger scale going ahead.
“We’re particularly proud to welcome this latest sister ship to our ocean fleet, because it additionally marks a major development in testing hydrogen as a future gasoline for our vessels,” stated Torstein Hagen, Chairman of Viking. “We sit up for welcoming visitors on board the Viking Neptune subsequent week. She is the 15th new ship we have now added to our total fleet this yr, one other important milestone as we proceed the celebration of our 25th anniversary.”
The brand new ship would be the eighth ocean ship added to the fleet, the earlier being Viking Mars.
Initially, the 47,800 gross ton ship will sail itineraries within the Mediterranean. However then Neptune will sail on Viking’s World Cruise itinerary, crusing from Fort Lauderdale to London on a 138 day journey.
Slight adjustments needed to be made to Viking Neptune in comparison with earlier ocean ships with the road as a way to accommodate area for the hydrogen gasoline tank.
This preliminary step in utilizing hydrogen gasoline is one step nearer to using a hydrogen-based technology system with a complete of roughly 6-7 MW of energy in future setups.
Viking’s ninth ocean ship, Viking Saturn, is the subsequent scheduled to affix the fleet in early 2023, and can spend her inaugural season crusing three new Scandinavian and Nordic itineraries.
