A research team at Northwestern University, Illinois, has released a paper studying the potential for long-range vehicles such as cargo ships to be powered by solid oxide fuel cells and to utilise onboard carbon dioxide (CO2) capture.
Despite being responsible for 3% of all CO2 emissions, cargo and tanker ships are often overlooked when examining ways to reduce harmful CO2 emissions from vehicles.
In its recently published paper, ‘Viability of vehicles utilising on-board CO2 capture’, the research team suggested that by “burning” traditional carbon-based fuels, the resultant concentrated CO2 can be stored on-board a ship. This stored CO2 could then be recycled into a renewable hydrocarbon fuel or sequestered.
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