Singapore’s GCMD to study techniques to offload onboard captured CO2

The Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD) has invited engineering consultants and classification societies to study operational requirements for offloading captured liquefied carbon dioxide (LCO2) during port calls.

PHOTO: Stena Bulk's IMOIIMAXX tanker Stena Impero. Stena Bulk

The study will enable safe offloading of LCO2 that is captured onboard, GCMD says. It will encompass offloading carbon from capture systems installed on tankers, bulkers and container liners, where LCO2 will be captured at different temperatures and pressures.

It will also cover LCO2-receiving vessels and intermediary storage sites, ship-to-ship, ship-to-shore and ship-to-floating storage configurations. The study is expected to start in the second quarter of next year, it says.

This comes after GCMD’s involvement in Project REMARCCABLE (Realising Maritime Carbon Capture to demonstrate the Ability to Lower Emissions).

In October, GCMD launched a project with the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) and Swedish tanker operator Stena Bulk to test a carbon capture system onboard on one of Stena Bulk’s medium-range tankers.

This most recent study will aid that two-year test project, which is currently in its first stage, GCMD says.

“GCMD views shipboard carbon capture as an important mid-term technological solution that can help reduce shipping’s GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions,” GCMD’s chief executive Lynn Loo says.

She adds that findings of the study will help to shape regulatory and operational guidelines for onboard carbon capture systems.

The technology is likely to be discussed at the upcoming Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) meeting this month, Loo says.

By Shilpa Sharma

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