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LNG or Hydrogen in the Trucks?
Logistics and renewable energy industries discuss sustainable heavy traffic

“I believe that both energy sources complement each other well”, said Kurt-Christoph von Knobelsdorff from the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of Economic Affairs on the issue of “LNG or Hydrogen”. As Andreas Lischke from the Berlin-based DLR Institute for Transport Research explained in his opening talk, while LNG is a fossil fuel and thus does not make much of a contribution to improving the carbon footprint, its combustion does generate 50 % less nitrogen oxide and hardly any particulate matter. “Using LNG as fuel is more interesting for climate protection when you add synthetic fuels”, explained von Knobelsdorff. Hydrogen produced with the aid of wind or solar power – so-called “green hydrogen” – could be the raw material for such synthetic fuels or for the chemical industry or itself serve as fuel and energy source. “With the planned LNG terminal in Brunsbüttel and its high levels of renewable energy production, Schleswig-Holstein is an ideal base for both technologies”, added von Knobelsdorff.
Various trucks with LNG propulsion are already on the market. CNG technology has already been tried and tested for decades. Fuel cell electric drive systems for cars are ready to go into series production, but for trucks they are still in the demonstration stage. The problem is that there is as yet no nationwide filling station network for either LNG or hydrogen in Germany, whereas the Netherlands, the Benelux states, France and Spain are well provided with LNG infrastructure. LIQVIS GmbH has currently installed 8 new LNG filling stations in Germany and is ready to build more as soon as there are more than 30 LNG trucks in one location. The H2-Mobility consortium has built 60 filling stations in Germany and is planning 40 more.
Dr. Felix Weise from certification company DNV GL advises relying more on interim technology than discussing one big future solution. He referred to the lower pollutant emission of LNG and recommended coupling tenders with emission savings.
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Husum / Neumünster, 29 January 2019
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