LCA for SBCC: 38-45% CO₂e avoidance possible

Ship-Based Carbon Capture (SBCC) is projected to play an important role in decarbonising the global maritime fleet, helping to achieve the IMO target of net zero emissions by 2050. And SBCC represents a suite of new and different ways for the sector to go about its business. As such, it is vital to ensure that these new ways of doing things have the desired effects and impacts and that they do not instead lead to other unwanted impacts and consequences elsewhere.

This is where Life Cycle Assessment, or LCA, comes in.

LCA is a methodology which subjects products and/or processes to rigorous analysis of each and every stage of their lifecycle so that we may properly account for associated greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental impacts every step of the way.

For EverLoNG, this encompasses benchmark and SBBC cases for both an LNG tanker and the SSCV Sleipnir, and also includes facilities and operations at port and those involved in the onward transport and storage of the captured CO₂.

Preliminary results reveal that SBCC could help avoid 38-45% of CO₂e compared to the non-intervention benchmark case.

Check out our other preliminary results: https://api.ltb.io/show/ACFSN