This project sets out to investigate the feasibility of establishing a ‘NI/GB Green Shipping Corridor’ between Larne in Northern Ireland and Liverpool in the North West
This project sets out to investigate the feasibility of establishing a ‘NI/GB Green Shipping Corridor’ between Larne in Northern Ireland and Liverpool in the North West of England using a ro-ro freight ferry design optimised for the carriage of unaccompanied trailers and powered by hydrogen reformed onboard from green methanol delivered in road mobile ISO tank containers. The green methanol would be synthesised in the Port of Larne from green H2 and CO2 as part of the Ballylumford Power-to-X Project, see description below.
The main innovation in the project is to capture CO2 from the onboard reformer and return it to the methanol synthesis plant in the same tank containers that delivered the methanol, thereby setting up a circular CO2 economy that avoids the inevitable future supply constraint of green CO2. The port based flexible green methanol plant will use otherwise curtailed wind power to drive a flexible electrolyser that feeds green hydrogen to a catalytic reactor. The Domestic Green Shipping Corridor would have ‘true-zero’ emissions, would not be reliant upon limited supplies of bio derived CO2 or direct air captured CO2 and would not need any carbon offsetting to meet net zero objectives.
