Grimaldi Group has ordered its tenth installation of Alfa Laval’s exhaust gas cleaning system.
Installations are underway aboard Atlantic Container Line newbuilds that will be the largest ConRos in the world, and the Group’s tenth system was recently ordered for yet another Finnlines vessel. The Grimaldi Group’s first experience with PureSOx was in 2014, when potential SOx scrubber solutions were evaluated for four of its existing Finnlines vessels. All four of the Finnlines vessels, which offer service in the North Sea and Baltic Sea, were retrofitted with open-loop PureSOx systems sized for operation in low-alkalinity Baltic waters. The Finnmill and Finnpulp received multiple-inlet systems, while single-inlet systems were installed aboard the Finnhawk and Finnkraft. In all cases, the systems were designed to facilitate later conversion into hybrid systems.
Class approval for the first systems
Alfa Laval has a long history of experience in working with scrubbers, as well as a structured method for preparing a PureSOx installation. In the Finnlines projects, this contributed to an extremely efficient retrofit procedure. The vessels were able to run on HFO as soon as installation was completed, and the commissioning of the PureSOx systems by Alfa Laval took around 1.5 weeks per vessel. After this, the crews were fully trained and the 100% operational systems were ready to have their compliance evaluated by RINA Services.
“The cooperation between Finnlines, Alfa Laval and RINA Services was very efficient and professional during the projects,” says Massimo Volta, General Manager Northern Western Europe for RINA Services.
“Commissioning was directly followed by Site Acceptance Tests performed by Alfa Laval and RINA Services, which resulted in class approval for all four PureSOx systems. We are all very satisfied with the project results and the cooperation between the involved parties.”
Today the Grimaldi Group has five new PureSOx installations underway, this time at Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding in Shanghai. The current projects are newbuild ConRos for Atlantic Container Line (ACL), intended to replace existing vessels in ACL’s transatlantic service. Not only will the Atlantic Star, Atlantic Sail, Atlantic Sea, Atlantic Sky and Atlantic Sun be faster and greener than their predecessors, they will also be the largest ConRo vessels in the world.
With work on the ACL newbuilds proceeding smoothly, the Grimaldi Group has placed yet another PureSOx order for the retrofit of a Finnlines vessel. The MS Finnmerchant will be deployed on a new Finland-Germany route between Hanko and Rostock, and again PureSOx was determined to be the best solution for meeting ECA requirements in the Baltic.
Source: Alfa Laval
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