Tag: scrubbers

DFDS achieved a record result in 2015. In the series ‘How we did it’ , the company introduces four ways for greener shipping operations.

Finnish company Valmet will supply exhaust gas scrubber system (EGCS) for two new cruise vessels, Mein Schiff 7 & 8, to be built by Meyer Turku for TUI Cruises GmbH. The scrubber system deliveries to the first vessel will start in the fourth quarter of 2016 and to the second vessel in the first quarter of 2017.

ECSA organised visit on board DFDS vessel ''Magnolia Seaways'' in the port of Ghent to demonstrate how a scrubber functions onboard a modern day vessel and explain the challenges arising from the operation of such equipment.

US-based company developing emission control technology has filed a patent application for its NJORD exhaust gas scrubber, which requires no chemicals.

Two new dry bulk carriers, being built for Canadian operator Algoma Central Corporation, will feature fully integrated Wärtsilä propulsion systems. The ships, which are being built at the 3 Maj Shipyard, Uljanik Group in Croatia, will also be installed with Wärtsilä closed loop scrubber systems.

Visitors to Marintec China 2015 will be able to explore Alfa Laval's PureSOx platform, which now includes an inline scrubber design.

Yara Marine Technologies has announced that the M/V Norwegian Escape cruise vessel has set sail from Hamburg, Germany featuring five of Yara's sulfur oxide (SOx) scrubbers. The company claims to be the biggest scrubber system of in the world.

Gibraltar-based company, Gibdock announced that it has secured a breakthrough exhaust gas scrubber retrofit project

 The 2013 VGP took effect on 19 December 2013, and regulates discharges incidental to the normal operation of vessels covered under the scope of the VGP (non-recreational vessels greater than 79 feet in length, which are not vessels of the armed forces, operating in a capacity as a means of transportation). Exhaust Gas Scrubber Washwater Discharge is addressed under section 2.2.26 of the Final 2013 VGP In accordance with Regulation 4 of MARPOL Annex VI, EGCS units may be used as an alternative means of compliance with the more stringent fuel oil sulphur limits established under Regulation 14 of MARPOL Annex VI, subject to approval by the Administration. Owners/operators are reminded that regulations pertaining to the VGP are applicable to discharges into US waters extending to the outer reach of the 3 mile territorial sea as defined in section 502(8) of the US Clean Water Act. Under VGP regulations, the pH limit for the washwater effluent shall not be less than 6.0, measured at the overboard discharge only.This is not consistent with the methods for determining the pH limit under the IMO EGCS Guidelines (resolution MEPC.259(68)), where the pH limit for the washwater effluent is to be no less than 6.5 ...