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Project nets US$3.7M funding to advance ship-based carbon capture
The EverLoNG, an international project looking to accelerate ship-based carbon capture, has landed €3.4M (US$3.7M) in state funding
Led by TNO, the EverLoNG project aims to demonstrate ship-based carbon capture (SBCC) aboard two LNG-fuelled ships, owned and operated by project partners TotalEnergies and Heerema Marine Contractors, with results aimed at moving the technology closer to market readiness.
The objective of the EverLoNG project is to accelerate the implementation of SBCC technology by demonstrating SBCC on board LNG-fuelled ships, integrating SBCC into existing ship infrastructure and facilitating the development of SBCC-based full CCUS chains.
Sixteen project partners from five countries – Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, the UK and the USA – will conduct studies to support the development of full-chain carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) networks, connecting ship-based carbon capture with CO2 transport links, geological CO2 storage and markets for its use.
These studies will identify and help solve any technical barriers to the implementation of SBCC as well as lower the costs associated with the technology.
Consortium partners include class societies Lloyd’s Register, Bureau Veritas and DNV – who will evaluate how SBCC fits within existing regulatory frameworks for shipping.
Partners will support the target of advancing SBCC as a cost-competitive decarbonisation option on the market by 2025, with a marginal abatement cost of between €75 and €100 per tonne of CO2 equivalent and scaling the CO2 capture rate by up to 90%.
EverLoNG project co-ordinator, Marco Linders of TNO, said, “Funding from the ACT3 programme will enable us to conduct studies aimed at making commercial ship-based carbon capture a reality.”
EverLoNG was selected along with 12 other R&D projects by the EU’s Accelerating CCS Technologies (ACT) funders in 2021 to address key research and innovation targets in the CCUS field.
Mr Linders added, “Our demonstration campaigns will optimise SBCC technology and we will also consider how best to integrate it into existing ship and port infrastructure. We’ll carry out detailed lifecycle assessments and techno-economic analysis, which will be essential information for maritime sector companies.
International collaboration is a big part of EverLoNG and our consortium is fully committed to supporting the shipping industry’s decarbonisation goals.”
The project began in October 2021 and will run until September 2024. It is co-funded by the ERA-NET Accelerating CCS Technologies (ACT3) initiative. The project’s total budget of €4.9M (US$5.3M) includes in-kind contributions from project partners.
The national funding agencies are Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy (Netherlands), The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) (Germany), The Research Council of Norway, the UK Government and UKRI and the US Department of Energy (DoE).
The full list of project participants is: MAN Energy Solutions, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, TNO, Conoship International, Carbotreat, VDL AEC Maritime, Heerema Marine Contractors, Anthony Veder, TotalEnergies, SINTEF, Bureau Veritas, ÅKP, DNV, Lloyd’s Register, Scottish Carbon Capture & Storage (University of Edinburgh) and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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