In China, Headway Technology Group installed China’s first centrifugal Onboard Carbon Capture System aboard the 57,000-deadweight-ton Yue Dian 56, a bulk carrier owned by Guangdong Energy Group, in a multi-organization effort that aims to capture over 90% of carbon emissions with 99.6% purity and create a closed-loop carbon value chain for future fuel synthesis.
Developed, designed, and manufactured by Headway, the OCCS replaces conventional gravity scrubbers with a centrifugal system that integrates absorption, desorption, liquefaction, and onboard storage of liquid CO₂. Headway stated the system “significantly enhances contact efficiency, reduces energy consumption, and enables a compact, easily integrated design.”
The project is supported by the China (Zhejiang) Pilot Free Trade Zone Zhoushan Administration Committee, Zhoushan Longshan Shipyard, CHN Energy New Energy Technology Research Institute, and the China Classification Society Shanghai Rules and Research Institute.
Captured CO₂ will be offloaded at Zhoushan’s pilot port under new liquid CO₂ handling guidelines and used in Headway’s “sustainable fuel synthesis projects,” which include hydrogen production and methanol and ammonia synthesis using solid-state hydrogen storage and AEM electrolysis technologies.
The project is the first commercial deployment of centrifugal carbon capture in the maritime sector.
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