Ammonia is relatively new, toxic, perceived as dangerous and often even unwanted by the public. On the other hand, it is obvious that ports will play a significant driving and facilitating role in the energy transition.
RHDHV is globally supporting ports with formulating their energy transition vision, which is based on actual forecasted demand in port operations, industry, bunkering and export opportunities.
The way the required infrastructure is implemented in the available port space depends on:
– Functional interfacing between utilities, process facilities, port conditions and existing facilities. These interfaces will be clarified for the ammonia supply chain.
– Safety aspects for handling ammonia in a build environment, applying typical, general safety distances, which are based on actual QRA calculation results.
– Footprint of related industry, such as electrolyzers, storage, ammonia production facilities. In masterplanning phase typically no facility designs are available, so decisions shall be made on generically applicable and conservative facilities footprint.
– Current and planned (Marine) operations, which certainly should not be jeopardized
Several concrete (Anonymized) project examples (Port Masterplans) will be shown to practically support the described approach.