Lloyd’s Register and Pusan National University partnership to drive innovation in liquefied hydrogen carrier technology

The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed on 16 April at LR’s Busan Workplace, establishes a strategic collaboration centered on creating liquefied hydrogen as a clear and scalable power supply.

By this new partnership, LR and PNU will collaborate throughout a variety of actions, together with joint analysis and know-how growth, the alternate of technical experience, worldwide educational cooperation, and shared coverage growth. The settlement represents a big step ahead in accelerating the commercialisation of liquefied hydrogen carriers and making certain that they’re designed, constructed and operated to the very best worldwide security and efficiency requirements.

PNU, house to Korea’s first university-based institute specialising in eco-friendly ships, helps to deal with the problem. Because the lead organisation behind the ‘Hydro Ocean Okay’ mission, the world’s largest liquefied hydrogen provider presently in growth, the college is contributing to the way forward for zero-emission maritime transport.

Sung-Gu Park, President – North East Asia, Lloyd’s Register, stated: “Now we have taken an vital first step in direction of the event of liquefied hydrogen carriers and cryogenic engineering know-how. This settlement will function a big turning level, permitting us to advance in the important thing areas of the longer term hydrogen economic system by way of differentiated worldwide alternate actions primarily based on world-class cryogenic know-how.”

Dr Jae-Myung Lee, Director of the Hydrogen Ship Know-how Heart, stated: “The collaboration between our college and Lloyd’s Register is a differentiated worldwide alternate exercise primarily based on world-class ultra-low temperature know-how. It is going to be an vital turning level for additional development within the utilisation of liquid hydrogen, a key area sooner or later hydrogen economic system.

“We’ll make joint efforts to create synergies within the growth of ultra-low temperature analysis, an unexplored area for human society.”