Partners complete successful shipboard carbon capture

Alfa Laval and Japan’s National Maritime Research Institute (NMRI) have successfully completed a shipboad carbon capture project using an adapted Alfa Laval PureSOx exhaust gas cleaning system.

The test was carried out while a new vessel, belonging to a Japanese owner, was undergoing sea trials. Carbon dioxide was absorbed by the PureSOx unit in closed loop mode from diesel engines operating in port.

René Diks, Alfa Laval’s head of Exhaust Gas Cleaning, commented: “The positive results from our project with NMRI Japan show that scrubber technology could also play a role in removing carbon at sea. Both short-term and long-term solutions will be needed to achieve IMO greenhouse gas emission reduction targets.” He continued: “Much development is needed before carbon capture and storage can be deployed at sea, but this preliminary testing showed clear potential in the approach. Though designed to remove SOx, PureSOx demonstrated its ability to remove carbon dioxide while operating in closed loop.”