Stena Bulk launches mission to display end-to-end shipboard carbon seize at scale

Main tanker transport firm Stena Bulk is launching a two-year, three-phase mission aimed toward demonstrating shipboard carbon seize, along with the International Heart for Maritime Decarbonization (GCMD) and the Oil and Fuel Local weather Initiative (OGCI).

Mission REMARCCABLE (Realizing Maritime Carbon Seize to display the Skill to Decrease Emissions) will see considered one of Stena Bulk’s Medium Vary (MR) IMOIIMAXX tankers put in with a carbon seize system, developed along with different mission companions, Alfa Laval, the American Bureau of Delivery, Deltamarin, and TNO.

Focusing on a minimum of a 30% absolute seize charge for carbon dioxide throughout regular vessel operations and on deep-sea voyages, and by working with organizations to dump and sequester or reuse the CO₂, the mission is the world’s first initiative demonstrating end-to-end shipboard carbon seize at such a big scale and throughout the complete worth chain.

The mission will use non-proprietary tools and processes, so outcomes may be shared broadly and publicly to maximise studying and encourage additional growth. It additionally goals to ascertain a pathway to cut back the price of onboard CO₂ seize to €150 per tonne of CO₂ or decrease, to permit the expertise to be commercially deployed within the close to future.

Stena Bulk’s participation within the consortium of the seven organizations will assist information the technical design and integration of the system onboard, in addition to assist consider the operational and business alternatives and challenges when capturing CO₂ at sea.