Ship Based Carbon Capture and Storage

Ship Based Carbon Capture and Storage: A Supply Chain Feasibility study

Buirma, Max (TU Delft Civil Engineering and Geosciences)

Schott, D.L. (mentor)
Vleugel, J (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Transport, Infrastructure and Logistics

2020-10-29

The maritime industry faces more and more restrictions on the amounts of greenhouse gases, and particularly CO2 which the IMO allows to be emitted by ships. Carbon capture technology promises to be able to significantly reduce the CO2 emissions on ships and is most compatiblewith LNG powered vessels by filtering the CO2 from the exhaust gases. This research is focused on the question: "what to do with the CO2, once it has been captured on board?". A threefold feasibility study is conducted to prove the feasibility of the supply chain from ship based carbon capture on a technical, economical and emissions related level. The supply chain consists of a capture, transportation and end-of-life phase. Each phase is assessed for technical, economical and emissions related feasibility. Factors such as offshore transportation distance, onboard CO2 storage capacity and CAPEX of a carbon capture system, as well as external conditions such as carbon tax and utilization revenue have proven to be the most impactfull elements which keep the payback time of the investment in carbon capture within a reasonable time of 3 to 5 years, while maintaining the possibility to reach the IMO2030 and IMO2050 CO2 emission reduction targets of 40% and 70% respectively.

Ship Based Carbon Capture
CO2 Emissions
Supply Chain
Carbon capture
Carbon utilization
LNG
Systems engineering
Systems life cycle model
Circular Economy

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2021-10-31

Student theses

master thesis

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