Green shipping equipment company Value Maritime will install an onboard carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and storage unit on Visser Shipping’s operational vessel Nordica in October this year, becoming the first company install a carbon capture and storage device on an operational vessel.
Aiming to provide a circular solution to reducing maritime CO2 emissions, Value Maritime will use its patented device to capture CO2 from the vessel’s exhaust. The captured gas will then be used to charge a CO2 battery, capable of charging and discharging, which will be offloaded in ports and transported to customers in sectors such as agriculture.
Any CO2 contained within the battery will then be reused and the battery returned to the vessel, ready to be recharged with captured CO2.
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