Hydra (ship)

Hydra (ship)

The Hydra is a 22 person hydrogen ship, power-assisted by an electric motor that gets its electricity from a fuel cell. The debut was in June 2000 on the Rhine near Bonn, Germany.

The idea for this project came from Christian Machens in 1999 for designing and building the fuel cell system for the Hydra in Leipzig.

The ship has transported around 2.000 passengers in 1999/2000Fact|date=September 2008 and was used as a ferry-boat in Gent (B) during an electric boat conference in 2000. It is fully certified by the Germanischer Lloyd for passenger transport and the fuel cell system had the ability to start even at temperatures below the freezing point.

The boat was withdrawn from service in 2001.

pecifications

Boat 12 m long, draft 0.52 m, a hydrid tank for 32 m³ hydrogen, 5 kW AFC fuel cell [ [http://www.h2mobility.org/6_shipdata/s012.htm Specification] ] , at a speed of 6 kt for 22 passengers.

ee also

* Hydrogen vehicle
* Hydrogen economy
* Germanischer Lloyd guidelines for fuel cells on ships and boats

References

External links

* [http://www.diebrennstoffzelle.de/h2projekte/mobil/hydra.shtml Hydra]


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