The B9 Clean Port Power Network

The B9 Energy Group Responds to Challenge of Improving Air Quality in Ports.

The principle air quality challenges faced by major ports across the world are:

1. Air quality in port is severely compromised by maritime activity – many vessels operating in small area on dirty bunker fuel emitting high levels of SoX, NoX and GHG emissions threatening the health of local communities and impacting climate change globally. 

2. Ships in port currently run their electrical generators constantly to maintain power supply to onboard systems

3. Organic waste streams arising from ocean going ships, but especially cruise liners, needs disposal by local authority – creating a cost to ship owners and disposal challenge for the local authority.

The B9 Solution

 

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

B9 responds to challenges by examining available technologies, bringing them together in innovative ways to create practical, affordable, deliverable solutions.

  

1.    Cold Ironing – this old term refers to ships turning off main engine (historically iron clad) in port (it goes cold) and using shore powered electricity supply to operate onboard systems. In other words ships in port plug in to the grid. This reduces port emissions and can deliver best environmental practice if electricity supply is renewable (ie not fossil fuel generated)

 

2.    Waste from cruise liners is collected by B9 Organic Energy and processed in an AD plant to produce biogas. This alleviates local authority disposal issue and saves the cruise liners waste management costs (landfill tax)

 

3. Biogas is a scarce resource and energy efficiency design must be employed to maximise its potential. B9 Organic make biogas available to those operating best environmental practices - cargo ships represent an energy efficient means of transport. Sailing cargo ships offer the best solution. 

 

4. Biogas powers in port vessels, tugs for instance, to immediately improve air quality for local communities 

 

6. A biomass fired electricity power generator will consume woodchip feedstock delivered by fossil fuel free B9 Ships.

 

7.  The electricity generated will provide clean power to ships 'cold ironing' in port – including B9 Ships - and sell any surplus to grid. 

 

B9 delivering straightforward solutions to a significant emission challenge in the maritime sector.