Professor Youngsub Lim of Seoul National University's College of Engineering worked with the Norwegian Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research to study the means of collecting carbon dioxide to reduce ships' greenhouse gas emissions.
 
Seoul National University's College of Engineering (Dean Kookheon Char) announced on May 4 that Professor Youngsub Lim of the Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering will launch an international joint research project CCShip (CCS for ships, Ship CO2 capture and storage project) to find the optimal methodology for collecting carbon dioxide.
 
Under the Paris Climate Agreement, IMO (International Maritime Organization) is tightening regulations to reduce ship's greenhouse gas emissions in a step-by-step process, which is having a significant impact on the global ship industry.
 
Currently, research is actively conducted on alternative fuels that do not emit carbon dioxide, such as hydrogen, but there is a lack of methods to reduce carbon dioxide emissions for existing ships that need to be operated for more than decades because they need a long time to commercialize and conduct economic feasibility studies.
 
"CCUS (Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage) technology, which has been studied for large-scale greenhouse gas sources such as thermal power plants, can also be applied to ships. The CCShip project aims to study the optimal carbon dioxide capture methodology for particular ships, taking into consideration of technological economics related to to various factors," said Professor Youngsub Lim.
 
This study is planned to be conducted for 4 years from April 2021 and the international research team will consist of 5 groups: WP1) Characteristics of Ship Application, WP2) Absorption Acquisition Method Application, WP3) Next Generation Acquisition Method Application Study, WP4) Alternative Fuel Comparison Analysis, and WP5) General Management. Professor Youngsub Lim will participate in research on Characteristics of Ship Application (WP1) and for the Next Generation Acquisition Method (WP3) and for the joint research between Seoul National University - Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), graduate students will be sent on exchange programs . Finally, the goal is to study the optimal carbon dioxide collection methodology applicable to ships considering technological economics such as weight, size, efficiency, and cost and to review and develop technologies that can be introduced according to various adenomas, fuel types, sailing distance, creed/modified.
 
The project will be co-participated by industry-academic institutions such as the Norwegian Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research (SINTEF Energy Research, SINTEF Ocean), NTNU, shipbuilding and marine equipment company Wärtsilä Moss, Calix, Norwegian shipping company Klavness and was funded by the Norwegian CCS Center and the Norwegian Research Council Marine Activity Innovation Program (NRC MAROFF project no. 320260).