Very low energy consumption and high product quality
RWO Marine Water Technology, part of Veolia group, has received an order for three ballast water treatment systems from Sumitomo Heavy Industries (SHI).
RWO’s CleanBallast ballast water treatment plants will be installed next year in three Aframaxes, which will be built for a European shipowner.
The CleanBallast system, with a maximum capacity of 3,000 cu m per hour, will be equipped with several of RWO’s advanced disinfection systems operating in parallel. This allows the system to cater for differing rates of ballasting and de-ballasting.
“Besides its very low energy consumption, high product quality and simple system configuration, its disinfection performance in low conductivity water without dosing chemicals and no risk of re-growth of organism during voyage are the reasons SHI decided applying CleanBallast,” said Akihiko Masutani, SHI project manager.
“In addition, CleanBallast also works in intermittent operation or even in turbid water and has a number of further positive features,” he added.
The shipyard has already signed a letter of intent for two further RWO ballast water treatment plants with discussions for additional ships in the series at an advanced stage.
To date, RWO has received orders for more than 40 systems. By the beginning of May, 32 ballast water treatment units from the Bremen company were already in commercial operation.
Source: Tanker Operator