Samskip installs carbon capture scrubber on its biofuel-fuelled short-sea vessel

Dutch logistics company Samskip claims the carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) scrubber system will enable it to offer carbon neutral shortsea shipping service between the UK and the Netherlands.

PHOTO: Samskip's biofuel-fuelled shortsea vessel Samskip Innovator fitted with Value Maritime's Filtree carbon capture and utilisation scrubber unit. Samskip

Samskip has installed two scrubbers equipped with carbon capture features on its vessels, Samskip Innovator and Samskip Endeavour.

It ordered the new scrubber units from Rotterdam-based shipping technology company Value Maritime last October.

The two vessels already run on 100% biofuel. Samskip claims that this alone can reduce their carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 90%. By using the new CCU scrubber system on top of running on biofuel, Samskip expects to offer carbon neutral shortsea service.

According to Value Maritime, the CCU systems can capture and store up to 30% of exhaust CO2 emissions when installed on conventional marine-fuelled vessels.

The captured CO2 will be pumped in a 10 megawatt (MW) “CO2 battery set” and carried on deck, it explains. Value Maritime will then deliver the batteries to onshore businesses like agriculture and greenhouses, that currently use natural-gas-powered machinery.

“The captured CO2 can then immediately be used bypassing the need for the gas-powered machinery in turn reducing the use of natural gas,” Samskip says.

By Konica Bhatt

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