Provaris Energy submits a detailed engineering package to the DNV to support a General Approval for Ship Application (GASA) for its low-pressure YP-Provaris liquid carbon dioxide (LCO2) tank, completing a key front-end engineering design (FEED) milestone.
Achieving the FEED milestone de-risks Provaris’ strategy to commerciliase the LCO2 tank, which has a design capacity of 25,000cbm and is intended to overcome current limitations with Type C tanks. According to Provaris’ press release, ‘large-scale CO₂ storage solutions have the potential to materially improve efficiency and reduce cost per tonne relative to existing market offerings.’
Provaris chief technical officer Per Roed, says: ‘Completion of the FEED engineering package for a GASA review level is an important technical milestone for Provaris and reflects the extensive structural design work undertaken by our team and Yinson. We believe the engineering package completed for the YP-Provaris LCO2 tank goes well beyond the scope normally associated with an Approval in Principle (AiP), giving shipowners, shipyards and CCS project participants greater confidence in the maturity, safety basis and practical application of our low-pressure LCO2 containment solution.’
DNV Maritime’s business development director CO2 Shipping, Mathias Sørhaug, comments: ‘We’re pleased to be involved in qualifying an entirely new way of storing pressurised CO2. A substantial amount of calculation and documentation work has gone into this, and there’s a clear plan in place towards qualification for first application. DNV look forward to continuing the good collaboration moving forward.’
