Scottish ballast water treatment said to beat UN compliance costs
GLASGOW's Ballast Water Containers (BWC), a Malin Group company, has recently begun trials with its Seaforth containerised ballast water treatment system.
Designed for the heavy lift, logistics and barge owners, the Seaforth Ballast Water Treatment is portable being held in a 20-foot shipping container.
The Seaforth system is designed to complement existing barge ballasting operations. It does this through the treatment of the sea-going ballast intake or discharge using a mobile deck mounted solution.
"This ensures that existing barge equipment, such as portable deck mounted ballast pumps and load out/in operations, remain largely unchanged," said the company statement.
Said Malin managing director John MacSween: "The IMO Ballast Water Management Convention, will enter into force in September 2017 leaving many barge owners with a real headache around compliance.
"In the current depressed freight market, the cost for outfitting every barge with a complaint, on board system is, in many cases, prohibitive, and in some, impossible.
"Our system offers an alternative means of compliance and allows owners to buy time and either defer or remove significant portions of CAPEX altogether,?said Mr MacSween.
Each system can treat up to 500 cubic metres of ballast water per hour which provides more than enough capacity for typical heavy lift sea-going ballasting operations, which usually have a pumping requirement of 200-300 cubic metres per hour.
The system also has the in-built capability of treating multiple ballast tanks at once via auto flow balancing technology.
"To minimise the risk of non-compliance, the Seaforth system incorporates continuous monitoring technology to automatically re-circulate ballast water that does not meet the necessary discharge criteria," the company said.
"The Seaforth system utilises off-the-shelf treatment technology. This ensures that BWC is not reliant on just one technology or one manufacturer to build the ballast water treatment system, giving the company the flexibility to use all the available US Coast Guard-approved technologies," said the company statement.
GLASGOW's Ballast Water Containers (BWC), a Malin Group company, has recently begun trials with its Seaforth containerised ballast water treatment system.
Designed for the heavy lift, logistics and barge owners, the Seaforth Ballast Water Treatment is portable being held in a 20-foot shipping container.
The Seaforth system is designed to complement existing barge ballasting operations. It does this through the treatment of the sea-going ballast intake or discharge using a mobile deck mounted solution.
"This ensures that existing barge equipment, such as portable deck mounted ballast pumps and load out/in operations, remain largely unchanged," said the company statement.
Said Malin managing director John MacSween: "The IMO Ballast Water Management Convention, will enter into force in September 2017 leaving many barge owners with a real headache around compliance.
"In the current depressed freight market, the cost for outfitting every barge with a complaint, on board system is, in many cases, prohibitive, and in some, impossible.
"Our system offers an alternative means of compliance and allows owners to buy time and either defer or remove significant portions of CAPEX altogether,?said Mr MacSween.
Each system can treat up to 500 cubic metres of ballast water per hour which provides more than enough capacity for typical heavy lift sea-going ballasting operations, which usually have a pumping requirement of 200-300 cubic metres per hour.
The system also has the in-built capability of treating multiple ballast tanks at once via auto flow balancing technology.
"To minimise the risk of non-compliance, the Seaforth system incorporates continuous monitoring technology to automatically re-circulate ballast water that does not meet the necessary discharge criteria," the company said.
"The Seaforth system utilises off-the-shelf treatment technology. This ensures that BWC is not reliant on just one technology or one manufacturer to build the ballast water treatment system, giving the company the flexibility to use all the available US Coast Guard-approved technologies," said the company statement.