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Value Maritime: The future is bright for CCS tech in shipping Dutch maritime technology company Value Maritime hit the headlines earlier this year as it developed what it claims to be the world’s first onboard CO2 capture and storage (CCS) unit for the maritime industry.
The solution has been successfully installed onboard Nordica, a 2011-built 1,040 TEU containership owned by the Netherlands-based shipping company Visser Shipping and operated by Singapore’s X-Press Feeders. The 152-meter-long vessel recently embarked on a voyage to test the system, which was approved by French classification society Bureau Veritas (BV). According to Rein Steeman, Director Sales and Marketing CO2 Services at
Rotterdam-based Value Maritime, the most challenging phase of the project was the development and testing of the new technology on land, before the actual testing of the system at sea took place. Fortunately, the system proved its worth and is working as expected, Steeman confirmed to Offshore Energy – Green Marine. Specifically, the module captures CO2 from the ship’s exhaust and uses the CO2 to charge a CO2 battery which serves
as a carbon dioxide storage facility on which CO2 can be charged and discharged. “Our system filters ultra-fine particles, SOx and captures CO2. The percentage of CO2 the owner or charterer wishes to capture is at their own choice,” Steeman explained. “In the case of the Nordica, the fuel savings the system generates by not having to buy more expensive lower sulphur fuel oils earns back the investment. The system is equipped with a clean loop filtering
