Finnish technology group Wärtsilä and Norwegian shipping company Solvang ASA have agreed on a full-scale pilot retrofit installation of a carbon capture and storage (CCS) system on one of Solvang’s ethylene carriers.
As informed, Wärtsilä Exhaust Treatment, part of Wärtsilä group, will design the retrofitted unit while it also plans to complete a land-based 1MW test system at its Moss headquarters in Norway. The land-based unit will be finished in autumn 2021, and the companies expect to retrofit the pilot CCS system on the 21,000-cbm ethylene carrier Clipper Eos by 2023.