CO2 capture is expected to play a central role in achieving climate goals in Denmark and Europe, but handling the large amounts of CO2 is a logistical challenge. Among other things, the transport from capture plants to storage or use is currently both expensive and complex. A new Danish innovation project will now try to change that with a new method. This is reported by Energy Cluster Denmark in a press release.
The project, CO2.0 Infrastructure, brings together companies and researchers to develop a new form of transport that can handle CO2 more efficiently across geography and player sizes.
Today, transport is particularly a barrier for small and medium-sized emitters, because existing solutions require special equipment and extensive investments. The project is therefore working to convert CO2 into dry ice, which can be transported at atmospheric pressure in specially insulated containers and included in the existing network of trucks, trains and container ships.
- Today, transporting CO2 in liquid form requires specially built tankers, cryogenic ISO tanks or pressurized trailers. They are only available in limited numbers, are extremely expensive to produce and involve significant safety risks. That is why we need to look at new methods, and we are now doing so in the innovation project CO2 Infrastructure, says Henrik O. Madsen, CEO of DecarbonICE.
The existing container fleet can be utilized
According to the project, the solution can reduce operating costs by up to 30 percent and at the same time utilize the existing global container fleet of around 43 million units. A 20-foot container can hold up to 21 tons of dry ice, which makes the solution flexible and modular.
At the Port of Esbjerg, Port Director Dennis Jul Pedersen sees great prospects in the innovation project, which can benefit the?entire?value chain for working with CO2
- The solution from the project will have a great effect – also for us as a port. Transport in containers allows CO2 to be transported from all over Europe in the existing logistics network. At the same time, we are establishing CO2 terminals here and at other ports for shipping to underground storage offshore. Overall, it strengthens both our competitiveness and that of the value chain, as well as a positive climate effect, he says.
The project is supported by the Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Programme – EUDP with 8.7 million kroner, and the partnership behind the solution consists, in addition to DecarbonICE, of Aarhus University, Ancotrans, Cold Jet ApS, Fremsyn ApS, Greengo Energy, KIRT X THOMSEN, Maersk Container Industry A/S, Port of Esbjerg and Energy Cluster Denmark.??
The project began in January 2026 and will run until June 2028, when the ambition is to have a commercially launchable concept. At the same time, the partners point to a growing market with up to 6 billion kroner. tons of CO2 are expected to be handled globally by 2050.
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