KHI gets ClassNK’s AiP for world’s largest liquefied hydrogen carrier CCS May 7, 2021, by Fatima Bahtić
Japanese corporation Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) has been awarded approval in principle (AiP) by ClassNK for designing the world’s largest liquefied hydrogen carrier cargo containment system (CCS) of 40,000 cbm class per tank.
Large liquefied hydrogen carrier (image of 40,000 cbm × 4 tanks)
Courtesy of Kawasaki Heavy Industries
The CCS for which the AiP was obtained is designed to contain cryogenic liquefied hydrogen, reduced to a temperature of –253°C and one eight-hundredth its initial volume, for shipping by sea in large amounts.
This containment system is said to have the largest capacity of its kind worldwide used in liquefied hydrogen marine transport.