MannTek provides all couplings in world first Carbon, Capture & Storage project

On March 8th, Project Green­sand ini­ti­at­ed First Carbon Storage, the world’s first, cross-border offshore CO2 storage project. All the cou­plings in the dis­tri­b­u­tion chain are provided by MannTek.
– We’re proud to be a part of this world-first project, says Magnus Hallen, Area Sales Manager at MannTek. To reach the am­bi­tious climate pro­tec­tion targets we need all possible options and CCS is a very im­por­tant tool to mitigate climate change.

With First Carbon Storage, Project Green­sand demon­strates – for the first time – the fea­si­bil­i­ty of cross-border, offshore CO2-storage across the full value chain.

Transformed into liquid

– The CO2 is captured from industry emis­sions in Antwerp in Belgium, Magnus Hallen explains.

Then it’s sep­a­rat­ed from the emis­sions, trans­formed into liquid, and trans­port­ed by ship to the final storage. In this pilot phase, the CO2 will be held safely in custom-built tank con­tain­ers during trans­port, but once the project is fully matured, the CO2 will be trans­port­ed on trans­port vessels built specif­i­cal­ly for this purpose.

– Then finally the CO2 is stored in the Nini West sand­stone reser­voir, 1800 metres below sea level in the Danish part of the North Sea. The fields for CO2 storage in the subsoil have been screened over many years and new ground­break­ing tech­nolo­gies are being de­vel­oped for mon­i­tor­ing the CO2 storage.

In full scale, Project Green­sand can store up to 1.5 million tonnes of CO2 per year in 2025/2026 and po­ten­tial­ly up to 8 million tonnes of CO2 per year in 2030.

The most reliable spill-free couplings on the market

Being the leading man­u­fac­tur­er of safe, reliable and easy to handle cryo­genic transfer systems and bunker­ing systems in the world, MannTek was chosen to provide all the cou­plings in this pilot project. In total several hundred of cou­plings and hoses. The cou­plings used are DCC, Dry Cryo­genic Cou­plings and CBC, Cryo­genic Break­away Cou­plings, suitable for the loading and un­load­ing of cryo­genic liq­ue­fied gases, such as LNG, nitrogen, oxygen, argon and ethylene, in working tem­per­a­tures down to -196° C.

Protect both investment and environment

–Dry Cryo­genic Cou­plings are spill-free quick cou­plings for safe and quick transfer, used on hoses and loading arms, Magnus Hallen explains.

– Cryo­genic Break­away Cou­plings are used to avoid spillage and damage as­so­ci­at­ed with drive and pull away in­ci­dents when loading and un­load­ing.With the most reliable release mech­a­nisms on the market, our break­away cou­plings provide safety at its best and can be adapted to be used in any ap­pli­ca­tion where drive of hazards is iden­ti­fied as a safety risk.

– In the long run break­away cou­plings protect both your in­vest­ment and the en­vi­ron­ment.

Product also Known As: Carbon Capture & Storage Couplings