Solvang ASA has selected Singapore’s Seatrium to carry out the world’s first first full-scale, turnkey carbon capture and storage retrofit on an oceangoing ship: the 21,289 cubic meter ethylene carrier Clipper Eris.
Scheduled to start in the third quarter of this year, the retrofit will see a 7 MW Wärtsilä carbon capture and storage (CCS) system installed on the ship. It will use amine cleaning technology to capture 70% of the carbon dioxide (CO2) in the exhaust gas from the main engine and the...