Singaporean yard giant Seatrium has secured the world’s first full-scale, turnkey carbon capture and storage (CCS) retrofit from Norway’s Solvang.
The full-scale retrofit of a 7MW Wärtsilä CCS system will be carried out on Solvang’s 21,289 cu m ethylene carrier, Clipper Eris, scheduled to commence in the third quarter of this year. The project will use amine cleaning technology to capture 70% of the carbon dioxide (CO2) in the exhaust gas from the main engine, involving the entire value chain for handling CO2, including liquefaction and storage onboard the vessel.
The technology will be piloted onboard the vessel over a year while it is operating commercially. If the pilot project is successful, Solvang intends to install the technology on some other vessels, including newbuilds.
Thats the way forward, a CCS unit fitted on top of a scrubber and you can then burn cheap, dirty, high sulphur heavy oil. Who needs future fuels??!!