The provider of energy industry solutions Toshiba (TOSYY) Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation (Toshiba ESS) announced that the company has delivered a mobile 30kW hydrogen fuel cell system, which volume per unit power output is reduced to 1/3 compared to the stationary fuel cell systems, to a fuel cell ship. The fuel cell ship, which passed the Temporary Navigation Permit Inspection of Japan Craft Inspection Organization on October 30, has started demonstrations of the verification by NREG Toshiba Building Corporation and Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology (TUMSAT).
NREG Toshiba Building Corporation and TUMSAT, as part of a joint research project, have contributed to the realization of environmentally friendly hydrogen fuel cell ships and have begun demonstration tests of a fuel cell ship, “Raicho N,” with Toshiba’s 3.5kW pure hydrogen fuel cell system as of October 2016. This time, a fuel cell ship, which is installed with a larger 30kW pure hydrogen fuel cell system, will be featured in this validation experiment on the use of pure hydrogen fuel cell systems at sea, and will be followed with further investigations. The achievements from this validation experiment will be verified using the safety guidelines for fuel cell ships by the MLIT.