Nordic duo aims to produce e-fuels for shipping in Sweden

Finnish limestone supplier Nordkalk has partnered with Swedish renewable energy producer OX2 to explore the production of synthetic hydrocarbons as e-fuels in Gotland, Sweden.

PHOTO: Stroguns lime quarry in Gotland, Sweden. Nordkalk

The companies are conducting a pilot study to determine whether a synthetic fuel (e-fuel) plant can be built in the Storugns lime quarry on Gotland Island in Sweden. The plant is expected to be powered by wind energy.

The e-fuel production will provide a “production stream” for Nordkalk’s carbon dioxide (CO2) capture plants, Ola Thuresson, industrial development director at Nordkalk said.

Nordkalk’s parent company SigmaRoc has installed a CO2 capture system at its Nordkalk’s lime plant in Köping, Sweden. The carbon capture technology can capture “up to 25% of the process emissions emitted from a standard kiln process at Nordkalk”, SigmaRoc claimed.

Besides, OX2 is developing an offshore wind energy project in the Baltic Sea off the southern coast of Sweden that will include a hydrogen plant that can produce 225,000 mt/year of green hydrogen. It is expected to become operational in the early 2030s.

E-fuels derived from captured CO2 and green hydrogen have an "immense potential" as a sustainable resource that will be essential in sectors like shipping in the future, Thuresson said.

By Konica Bhatt

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