1、SETTING THE COURSE TO LOW CARBON SHIPPINGZERO CARBON OUTLOOKABOUT THE NET ZERO NAVIGATORFEATURED ON THE COVER AND THROUGHOUT THE PUBLICATIONThe vessel is a conceptual design of a liquid hydrogen carrier,approximately 80,000 cubic meters(m3)in capacity.Hydrogen is billed as one of the potential futur

2、e fuels for eliminating greenhouse gas(GHG)emissions from shipping because it either burns without emitting anything other than water vapor,or can be used in hydrogen fuel cells to generate electricity directly.The Net Zero Navigator was heavily inspired by the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis

3、tration(NASA)and space-age technologies involving hydrogen.Its large spherical hydrogen storage tanks were developed by NASA,along with its hydrogen fuel cells and batteries,which were used for power generation on the space shuttle.This vessel requires special spherical tanks because hydrogen gas is

4、 notoriously difficult to store safely at significant quantities.The typical solution is to store the hydrogen in a liquid form at-253 C.These temperatures are achieved with a complicated refrigeration system and highly sophisticated insulation,which is why the design features such prominent metal s

5、heathing.ACKNOWLEDGMENTSThis publication was prepared by a group of contributors including:Georgios Plevrakis,Panos Koutsourakis,Stergios Stamopoulos,Jatin Sarvaiya,Ilias Soultanias,Shankar Vaidhyanathan,Nathan Seward,Tao Shen,Anna Zhu,Revekka Koliniati,Andreas Kalamidas,Daniel Barcarolo,Ioannis Dim

6、akopoulos,Ai-Nian Zhang,Hamid Daiyan,Aditya Bose,Sarah Bell,Lindsay Bass,Shannon Crisafulli,and Jesse Lashbrook,in collaboration with Maritime Strategies International and Herbert Engineering.TABLE OF CONTENTSWHILE ABS USES REASONABLE EFFORTS TO ACCURATELY DESCRIBE AND UPDATE THE INFORMATION IN THIS