Japanese floater expert Modec has entered into a front-end engineering and design contract with Korean construction and project management company Samsung E&A for the installation of a carbon capture system on an FPSO. The study envisages the installation of a carbon capture module, based on Carbon Clean’s modular CycloneCC technology, on a Modec FPSO as a pilot programme. According to Modec, this will be a first-of-a-kind deployment of CycloneCC in an onboard carbon capture setting. Carbon Clean will provide FEED support to Samsung E&A, formerly Samsung Engineering, including equipment supply of the rotating packed bed technology used by CycloneCC and process design package licensing for the unit. Samsung E&A will perform detailed engineering to optimize the technology for the offshore environment and FPSO’s boundary conditions. The unit footprint of the CycloneCC is up to 50% smaller than conventional solutions, with its largest equipment sizes reduced by a factor of 10. It also delivers a height reduction of 70% compared to column-based technologies. The rotating packed bed will also be able to increase capture performance under vessel motions compared to columns. If the pilot is successful, the next stage may include the installation of a commercial, scaled-up CycloneCC unit on Modec’s FPSO fleet. “Onboard carbon capture is essential for decarbonizing offshore oil and gas operations. Its replicable, scalable design makes it logistically and commercially viable to be deployed across a fleet at a fraction of the cost of traditional amine systems,” said Aniruddha Sharma, chair and CEO of Carbon Clean. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2'); }); TagsJapan South Korea