Project Summary
The project will evaluate the feasibility, costs, infrastructure impacts and potential benefits of using advanced carbon capture technology to decarbonise marine shipping on a comparable basis to alternatives assessed in the Frontier Economics scenario analysis.
Project Achievements
Working with naval architects Houlder Limited and the University of Chester, PMW Technology’s T-TRIG project analysed the A3C low temperature carbon capture process applied to two modern ship designs. The case studies examined the feasibility, performance and cost of the process.
The delivery of liquid carbon dioxide from shipping to ports is an essential part of the concept and integration of port facilities with the proposed industrial carbon capture clusters was explored. Finally the costs of marine decarbonisation by carbon capture were evaluated on the same basis as prior DfT studies.
Conclusions
Process modelling by PMW Technology and the University of Chester proved the feasibility and assessed the energy consumption of the A3C process for decarbonizing shipping. Houlder Limited showed that for both case studies the equipment and carbon dioxide storage tanks could be located with small impacts on cargo carrying capacity while assuring ship stability. Working with Tees Valley Combined Authority, port unloading and transfer of liquid carbon dioxide to geological storage were found to support the development of the proposed UK carbon capture clusters, enhancing their utilization and further development. The total cost of marine carbon abatement by A3C carbon capture was shown to be a decisive 50% cheaper than zero carbon fuels on a comparable basis.
