With growing pressures for bans on the discharge of wash water from ships’ exhaust gas scrubbers, Netherlands-based SodaFlexx International has launched analternate means of exhaust gas desulfurization that, it says, is not a scrubber. Instead of using water, its N-Flexx system neutralizes sulfur by injecting an absorbent into the vessel’s exhaust gases.
“We anticipated the scrubber wastewater ban. Our new technology helps vessel operators adapt to this new political reality,” says Sander...