Sensitivity analysis on ammonia shipping as a hydrogen carrier

The Canada-Germany Hydrogen Alliance commits to export clean Canadian hydrogen by 2025. It is critical to evaluate the life cycle carbon emissions associated with hydrogen transmission at sea. In this project, we will focus on analyzing ammonia as a hydrogen carrier for the shipping purpose. A sensitivity analysis will be conducted to evaluate the life cycle carbon emissions in hydrogen and ammonia production in different provinces for shipping, long distance transmission to different markets and ammonia conversion to hydrogen as a final product. We will also study the impacts of using ammonia as a shipping fuel. This project is an extension of an existing NRC-MITACS-RWTH Aachen Globalink project on transatlantic ammonia shipping. The host (Prof. Wu) at the University of Waterloo will lead the collaboration and supervise the student, while the NRC PIs, Dr. Bensebaa and Dr. Mak will provide guidance on NRC life cycle assessment (LCA) and techno-economic analysis (TEA) framework and ammonia shipping, respectively. This project complements by adding a commodity and potential fuel, i.e., ammonia to NRC’s current work with respect to ships and shipping. This project will inform the potential of Canada to transport hydrogen in the form of ammonia by ship.

Faculty Supervisor:

XiaoYu Wu

Student:

Partner:

Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Waterloo

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