I Emissions Reduction
Emissions assessment and reduction analysis is increasingly important for both new and existing facilities, with regulatory compliance and investment/stakeholder expectations continually pushing for reduced emissions.
Crondall Energy create project emissions lifecycle assessments (LCA) using our in-house proprietary tool, ZETA – Zero Emissions Tracking and Assessment. ZETA enables Crondall Energy to assess emissions across the complete lifecycle of a project and investigate initiatives and sensitivities to reduce project lifecycle emissions. Using the ZETA tool Crondall Energy can advise clients on the impact of project decisions from early concept design, through to operational facilities and decommissioning.
In order to reduce a project’s emissions Crondall Energy follows a systematic process, focussing on bad actors highlighted from the lifecycle assessment. This process includes:
• Eliminate – is it feasible to remove the equipment, process, or facility responsible for emissions?
• Replace – is it possible to substitute a more efficient system?
• Reduce – can the usage or demand of the bad actor system be reasonably reduced?
• Electrify – is the process or facility suitable for receiving power import? Can it be modified to receive power import?
In Crondall Energy's experience, the key areas to target for emissions reduction are:
• Power generation – often contributes up to 80% of a project’s emissions.
• Flare & vent – the second major component of operational emissions.
Crondall Energy are experienced with the challenges of incorporating such emissions reduction strategies across a variety of projects; greenfield, redeployment and retrofit. The key items to be addressed are:
• Cost – all project types will require budget allocation to these strategies, and cost is a key component in determining a levelized cost of abatement (LCOA) to create comparisons between projects.
• Space & Layout – a particular challenge for redeployment and retrofit projects, it must be determined if sufficient space can be made for any new required modules. This can also involve the removal of existing modules if they are no longer required.
• Technology Development – ensuring selected technology is sufficiently developed and proven, of particular concern is marinization for use in an offshore environment.
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Innovative Solutions: Crondall Energy can utilise the ZETA tool alongside its extensive engineering experience to develop novel designs for low emission facilities.
Lender’s Technical Advisor: Crondall Energy has a robust track record providing Lenders Technical Advisory services to global clientele. As part of this technical due diligence, an independent emissions LCA can be performed to provide clients reassurance in the project emissions impact.
I Emissions Reduction Highlights
Key Services:
I Process Engineering
Evaluation and optimisation of topsides facilities, improving emissions performance through design changes and efficiency improvements.
I Electrical Engineering
Expertise in power generation technologies and electrification of facilities for power import scenarios.
I Naval Architecture
Evaluation of equipment suitability for offshore use and calculating available weight capacity for the required process modifications to improve emissions performance.
I Project Management
Benchmarking schedule and cost of emissions reduction projects, capital and operational expenditure estimation and analysis, schedule estimation and analysis.