Wärtsilä Exhaust Treatment and also Solvang ASA, a Norwegian delivering business, have actually settled on a major pilot retrofit installment of a carbon capture and also storage space (CCS) system on among Solvang’s ethylene providers, the 21,000-cbm Clipper Eos.
Wärtsilä Exhaust Treatment creates the retrofitted system while it additionally finishes a land-based 1MW examination system at its Moss head office inNorway The land-based system will certainly be finished in fall 2021, and also the business anticipate to retrofit the pilot CCS system on the Clipper Eos by 2023.
The arrangement strengthens Wärtsilä’s ongoing r & d right into carbon capture at the factor of exhaust to sustain the delivery sector’s decarbonisation path.
The job will certainly allow both Wärtsilä and also Solvang to enhance their setting at the reducing side of lasting modern technology advancement in delivery. To stay according to the IMO’s decarbonisation targets, Wärtsilä is originally going for a 70% decrease in carbon dioxide discharges at the factor of exhaust with its pilot system.
Commenting on the news, Sigurd Jenssen, Director at Wärtsilä Exhaust Treatment, stated: “Joining forces with Solvang to build and retrofit a commercially viable CCS technology demonstrates to the industry that we are only two or three years away from bringing to market another vital tool in shipping’s decarbonisation toolkit. We are excited to see how this collaboration with Solvang evolves in the coming months. Our land-based test unit is nearing completion, and we will then move to making it a reality on the Clipper Eos, ensuring that both Wärtsilä and Solvang remain at the forefront of maritime sustainability technology advancement.”
Edvin Endresen, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER at Solvang ASA included: “Carbon capture and storage is an exciting development that we are proud to support, and strongly believe that this technology could be an important key to decarbonize the world’s deep-sea fleet. As a forward-thinking company that is equally passionate about ensuring the industry’s transition to decarbonisation, Wärtsilä is the perfect partner as we look to scale up sustainable technologies across our fleet and reduce shipping’s environmental impact on the world.”
The vessel, “Clipper Eos” has actually been time hired by Marubeni Corp., Tokyo given that her distribution from the shipyard in 2019. Marubeni, having greater than 40 years’ experience trading and also dealing with ethylene, encourage that they are dedicated to accepting Solvang and also Wärtsilä to allow the celebrations to carry out pertinent screening and also installment of devices on the vessel in a common initiative to substantially minimize the carbon dioxide impact of the vessel.
In enhancement to authorizing a Letter of Intent with Solvang and also scaling its Moss CCS examination system, Wärtsilä just recently introduced it is partnering with the LINCCS consortium to range and also produce carbon capture innovations and also framework. The consortium just recently obtained 111m Norwegian Kroner in moneying to CCS r & d.
Sea News, October 21
