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A year of testing has proven the effectiveness and commercialization potential of onboard carbon capture and storage systems (OCCS), reports Samsung Heavy Industries. In partnership with HMM, Panasia, and the Korean Register of Shipping, they have been conducting tests aboard an HMM feeder vessel operating in Asia.
Samsung Heavy Industries installed an amine absorption-based capture system aboard the HMM Mongla. The vessel, which was built in 2014 and acquired by HMM in 2023, is a 25,000-dwt feeder with a capacity for 2,200 TEU. Measuring 186 meters (610 feet), the vessel was built in China with conventional propulsion and retrofitted with the OCCS system. It operates a feeder loop calling at Ningbo and Shanghai in China, Chattogram in Bangladesh, Port Klang in Malaysia, and Singapore.
According to Samsung, the demonstration attempted to produce results that could verify the effectiveness and commercial potential of the system. In January of this year and again in May, they were able to offload liquified CO2 with a purity of over 99.9 percent. It was used as a raw material for the process of making eco-friendly methanol that could be used as marine fuel. They report it demonstrated a meaningful case of carbon utilization beyond underground storage of the…