Seabound has developed a patent-pending compact carbon seize machine that may be retrofitted right into a ship’s engine exhaust on the stack.
Lomarlabs, a subsidiary of the Libra Group’s Lomar Shipping, is collaborating with local weather tech start-up Seabound on a challenge to develop new, cost-effective strategies to seize CO2 onboard vessels.
Seabound has developed a patent-pending compact carbon capture device that may be retrofitted right into a ship’s engine exhaust on the stack. The CO2 chemically reacts with pebbles of quicklime, which then convert into limestone, protecting the CO2 locked in. The limestone pebbles are briefly saved onboard earlier than the ship returns to port, with none want for energy-intensive CO2 separation, compression, or liquefaction. The pebbles are secure, inert and non-toxic; abundantly accessible worldwide and fairly priced. Once again in port, the limestone pebbles are offloaded and both offered in pure kind or turned again into quicklime and CO2, for the quicklime to be reused onboard one other vessel and the CO2 offered for utilization or sequestration.
Preparations to put in the Seabound tools onboard the primary ship will happen in May and June this 12 months to run the first-ever pilot challenge all through this summer season. The challenge is a part of the U.Ok.’s Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition Round 3 (CMDC3).
Lomarlabs managing director, and former Lomar technical director, Stylianos Papageorgiou, says, “Lomarlabs is advising on engineering and design for this transformative solution, adapting it to the realities of everyday commercial shipping operations. We help formulate pilot tests on Lomar vessels, and fine-tune the business model using our industry insight to help make a viable business. We share our experience and network to develop solutions that have the potential of delivering systematic change for our maritime industry.”
“We’re excited to be collaborating with Lomarlabs for this first-of-a-kind ship-based pilot of Seabound’s compact carbon capture technology,” says Seabound co-founder & CEO Alisha Fredriksson. “It has already been instrumental working with Stylianos and his team because they’re keen to jump into the technical details with us and to brainstorm creative approaches to iteratively and cost-effectively de-risk this novel technology. Together we aim to demonstrate that the shipping industry doesn’t have to wait to decarbonize in 5-10+ years, but that there are already viable solutions coming to the market now.”
CEO of Lomar Shipping Nicholas Georgiou added: “We are keen on exploring technologies that will unlock maritime innovation and lead to the decarboniation of our industry. With lomarlabs and Seabound’s conjoined efforts, we are excited to accelerate our involvement in the mission towards safer, cleaner oceans and contribute to bringing zero-emission shipping from theory to practice.”
Founded in late 2021, Seabound has so far constructed two working land-based prototypes, secured seven letters of intent from main shipowners, and raised $5.7 millionin funding from world-class traders together with Lowercarbon Capital, Y Combinator, Eastern Pacific Shipping, and the U.Ok. Department for Transport.
