The 4 ton per day project will be fed by an adjacent alkaline electrolysis plant. Led by JGC and key chemicals manufacturer Asahi Kasei, lessons from the demonstrator will be applied to another large pilot for green chemical production planned for next year.
Wärtsilä will provide its four-stroke, ammonia-powered engine to Skarv Shipping Solutions for deployment on a new timber transport vessel to be built in China. Delivery of the full equipment set – including fuel gas supply system, release mitigation system, and a selective catalytic reduction system for exhaust treatment – is anticipated in late 2026.
In our January episode of Project Features, we explored a now-operational renewable ammonia project in Uzbekistan, the historical use of water electrolysis for hydrogen, ammonia and fertilizer production, and future plans in the Central Asian nation.
The trio plan to build on a series of already successful collaborations between CF Industries and Trafigura, and push forward bunkering logistics planning for marine ammonia fuel on the US Gulf Coast and northwest Europe.
In our latest technology landscape analysis, AEA Technology Manager Kevin Rouwenhorst explores four broad categories for novel ammonia production technologies: improved catalysts, sorbent enhancement, electrochemical ammonia synthesis, and other technology pathways (including geological, single-step and looping synthesis).
Hapag-Lloyd and North Sea Container Line (NCL) have emerged as winners of ZEMBA’s second tender focused on the deployment of e-fuel powered containerships. NCL will deploy the renewable ammonia powered containership Yara Eyde from 2027.
A new long-term agreement between the two parties will see Atlas Agro supply low-carbon fertiliser to Tereos from its production site, the Uberaba Green Fertiliser plant. Tereos aims to decarbonise the fertiliser supply for its over 300,000 hectares of sugarcane production in Brazil.
The Ammonia Synthesis Plant from Intermittent Renewable Energy (ASPIRE) project is now online outside of Oxford, UK. The demonstrator will produce 300kg per day of renewable ammonia via a containerized, modular system.
MAE’s Volta Project becomes the “first industrial-scale green ammonia project” to complete Chile’s environmental permitting process. The $2.5 billion, 620,000 tons-per-year renewable ammonia project will be constructed in two phases, with commercial production targeted for 2029.
Time-charter contracts covering a total of four vessels have been signed with NYK Bulkship and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines to transport ammonia from Louisiana to JERA’s Hekinan Thermal Power Station in Hekinan City, Japan.