lomarlabs teams up with Seabound on maritime decarbonisation

lomarlabs works with entrepreneurs bringing deep tech solutions to the maritime industry, aiming to help them de-risk their technologies and optimise their business models. The venture is spearheaded by former Lomar technical director Stylianos Papageorgiou, who has been appointed its managing director.

Seabound has developed a patent-pending compact carbon capture device that can be retrofitted into a ship’s engine exhaust at the funnel. The CO2 chemically reacts with pebbles of quicklime, which then convert into limestone, keeping the CO2 locked in. The limestone pebbles are temporarily stored onboard before the ship returns to port, without any need for energy-intensive CO2 separation, compression, or liquefaction.

According to Seabound, the limestone pebbles are safe, inert and non-toxic; and abundantly available. Once back in port, the limestone pebbles are offloaded and either sold in pure form or turned back into quicklime and CO2, for the quicklime to be reused onboard another vessel and the CO2 sold for utilisation or sequestration.