The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and Temasek Polytechnic (TP) on November 29 jointly launched a new Maritime Fuel Cell Research Initiative.
Through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), the main aim is to seed and encourage projects that will yield improvements and breakthroughs in the use of fuel cells and other technologies that are applicable to the maritime industry. The projects will focus on research, development, test-bedding and eventual commercialisation of fuel cell applications and other technologies that are used in the industry.
Two research projects have been identified. The first is to test-bed fuel cells as auxiliary power in vessels, and the second is to develop an automated process of supplying continuous clean power to underwater systems and devices.
