Environmentally friendly closed loop scrubber solution
Deltamarin Ltd and Oy Langh Ship Ab have come together to offer a solution to the sulphur requirements with the scrubber that Langh Ship has developed. The new scrubber is delivered by a joint venture company DeltaLangh Ltd, and it can also be supplied on a turnkey basis.
As the new sulphur directive in the Sulphur Emission Control Area (SECA) comes into force in 2015, shipping companies are forced to choose a method to tackle the challenge. The new scrubber solution offered by DeltaLangh, provides shipping companies with a unique environmentally friendly closed loop scrubber solution – already tested in operation on Langh Ship’s vessel M/S Laura during one year.
In the SECA area which includes the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, the English Channel, North American coastal area and the US Caribbean Sea areas, all ships must use fuel with a sulphur content of less than 0.1% starting from January 1, 2015 (current limit 1%). To switch over to light distillates with lower sulphur content is quite expensive and leads to increase in transport costs. A more economical solution is to use an exhaust gas cleaning system (scrubber), which reduces the sulphur content of the exhaust gases accordingly.
Langh Ship’s five vessels all traffic in the SECA area and so the company had to react to the new regulations. After reviewing the alternative scrubbers available at that time, Langh Ship’s Managing Director Hans Langh decided to reach for even better performance and cost efficiency. Based on the 40 year long experience of water treatment systems that Mr Langh had from another family company, Industrial and Ship Cleaning Services Hans Langh, he set up a large product development project aiming to engineer a reliable closed loop scrubber.
The first full scale scrubber installation has now been in operation for one year onboard M/S Laura, a 6500 DWT general cargo vessel equipped with a 6 MW main engine. Without interruptions or down times, the system has been in operation and fully functional year round, even through Baltic winter and ice conditions. “The scrubber has proved to be very easy to operate, stable and does not add much extra workload for the crew“, says Langh Ship’s Senior Technical Adviser Mr Reino Verosaari, who has been strongly involved in the project. The equipment is classified by DNV GL.
The new joint venture DeltaLangh will utilise the long experience of both companies to offer the best solution in the market. “The scrubber has been such a success that we are sure it will benefit other ship owners as well,” says the pleased Mrs Laura Langh-Lagerlöf, Commercial Manager at Langh Ship.
Source:Deltamarin
