en.Wedoany.com Reported - The Port of Klaipėda in Lithuania has commissioned a €12 million ($13.8 million) waste collection vessel named Rasa, as confirmed by the Klaipėda State Seaport Authority.
The 42-meter-long vessel held its naming ceremony on June 18, with Lithuania's First Lady Diana Nausėdienė and Estonia's First Lady Sirje Karis serving as godmothers.
Rasa is primarily used to collect waste, bilge water, and sludge from ships calling at the Port of Klaipėda. It is equipped with dedicated storage tanks and a bilge water treatment system, capable of transferring treated water to municipal wastewater treatment facilities.
With the vessel's deployment, the Port of Klaipėda has brought a core port service previously reliant on external suppliers under its own control. Additionally, it connects the port's newly built hydrogen infrastructure to a working harbor vessel, rather than remaining at the demonstration unit level.
However, the hydrogen component of the project has not yet been fully approved. Rasa's hydrogen equipment is still awaiting certification, so the vessel can currently only legally sail on electric power, although hydrogen has already been stored in its tanks. The relevant certification is expected to be obtained in July.
The hull and some of its equipment were built by Western Baltic Shipyard (part of the Western Shipyard Group) in Klaipėda. Baltic Workboats was responsible for final assembly, system integration, and testing in Estonia, also serving as the main contractor and vessel designer. Genevos provided the hydrogen fuel cell system, storage tanks, and supporting software.
According to parameters provided by Baltic Workboats, Rasa measures 42 meters by 10 meters, with a total liquid waste and sludge capacity of 400 cubic meters. The vessel is equipped with an approximately 2 MWh energy storage system from EST-Floattech, two 40 kW hydrogen fuel cells from Genevos, and a fully electric propulsion system supplied by Danfoss Drives.
The vessel is planned to use green hydrogen produced at Klaipėda's newly commissioned hydrogen production and refueling station (opened on June 5). This PEM electrolyzer facility, operating at full capacity, is expected to produce approximately 127 tons of hydrogen annually.
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