Technology provider Wartsila expects to have an onboard carbon capture and storage (OCCS) system ready to market by 2025.
Sigurd Jenssen, director at Wartsila Exhaust Treatment, told TradeWinds the company has been trialling a solvent-based OCCS system on land for around 20 months.
Asked by TradeWinds when OCCS will be ready for ships, Jenssen said: “In 2025 we will be ready to go to market with a product.”
Jenssen was speaking as Wartsila made a push for its OCCS feasibility studies for shipowners and operators.
The company said it had conducted some of these for a range of vessel types including ro-ro and ropax vessels, a drill ship, a container vessel and a gas carrier.
Jenssen confirmed these were done for fee-paying customers rather than as pilots.
Wartsila said the process takes four to six months of study and design work.
Jenssen said the work can range from a fairly small desktop-based engineering study to more advanced efforts involving 3D scans. He said the scope of the work depends on what the customer requires and the vessel type.
The company is conducting feasibility studies across newbuildings and existing vessels.
“Retrofit CCS installations will be significantly smoothed by the presence of a scrubber onboard,” it added.
‘Exciting step’
Its Wartsila Exhaust Treatment arm, which manufactures scrubbers, is offering CCS-ready scrubbers to the market.
The company said these are integrated onboard so that a CCS system can be added once the technology is commercialised.
Jenssen said: “Launching these feasibility studies and being able to offer them to market is the exciting latest step in our process of bringing carbon capture and storage to market in shipping.”
The director said it builds on the work the company is doing in its test hall in Moss, where he said its technology is demonstrating Wartsila’s targeted 70% capture rate.
