- Though stainless steel and GRP will ensure scrubber quality, coatings may be required in some areas such as discharge nozzle to mitigate corrosion.
- For compliance in areas where the discharge of scrubber washwater is banned, less than 2% of these units will be closed-loop systems and 20% are likely to be hybrids.
- SOx captured in the exhaust gases dissolves in the washwater and can form strong acids, lowering the pH of the washwater.
- Bottom and top portions of a scrubber tower can be...
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Wärtsilä’s Long Term Outlook on EGCS
- Wärtsilä orderbook fully booked for the remainder of 2019, and had secured orders for delivery for dates as late as the second half of 2020.
- Orderbook evenly split between newbuilds and retrofits, with a large proportion of orders for closed-loop and hybrid systems and the majority for open-loop scrubbers.
- Around 3,000 scrubbers likely to be installed by the end of 2019, and a further 1,000 units on order.
- Conversion of 40,000 vessels that are likely to be moving from HSFO to MGO or LSFO is...
Neptune Installs Scrubbers in Two Vessels Ahead of 2020
The shipping transportation solutions provider Neptune Lines, makes an important investment in scrubbers with 10 units installed until Q1 2020, reports MarineLink.
Scrubber installationsDenmark-based ME Production (MEP), a leader in marine technologies solutions for marine equipment and energy markets will supply the units.
The first two installations were successfully completed in Odessos shipyard in Varna and commissioned shortly after.
Compliant with IMO regulationsIntegrating these MEP...
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The Scrubber Debate Ahead of IMO 2020
- To comply with the Sulphur regulation, scrubbers are turning out to be a favourite for the ship-owners due to cost and convenience.
- More than 10 countries, including major ones like China, Singapore, Abu Dhabi, California, Germany and more, banning the open-loop scrubbers.
- The benefit of using the scrubbers is that ships with scrubbers can continue to run on the cheaper bunker fuel.
- A whole new fuel-system has to be installed and replacing to compliant fuel is an expensive process.
- Scrubber is...
The Real Issues in The Debate Over Scrubbers
With the new sulfur limit coming into force in 2020, ship owners and operators are looking to comply with the regulation, and a debate has ensued over the use of scrubbers, says a press release published on The LoadStar website.
The debate over the use of scrubbers include what are open-loop and closed-loop scrubbers and how harmful are scrubbers to the environment. Here’s an excerpt from it.
The new sulfur regulationHere’s a quick recap of the new sulfur regulation:
- In October 2016, the U.N....
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31 PureSOx Scrubbers for Chinese Company
In a major development, a leading Chinese shipping company has chosen Alfa Laval PureSOx scrubber systems for exhaust gas cleaning on 31 vessels in their fleet, writes Sue Terpilowski in an article published in Sea News.
What is it?The PureSOx systems for 31 existing vessels, which are among the largest vessels in the world, represent orders booked in 2018 and deliveries extending from early 2019 through the end of the year.
Each scrubber will handle exhaust gas from one main engine and three...
Yara Installs First Inline Hybrid Scrubber for 80MW ULCC Engine
- Yara installed the world’s highest capacity inline hybrid scrubber aboard an ULCC fitted with an 80MW capacity two-stroke engine.
- The inline hybrid scrubber system also covers the exhaust from the ULCC’s 5 x 5MW auxiliary engines.
- The main engine scrubber designed without a bypass arrangement, is only possible for inline scrubber installations.
- The second scrubber dedicated to treating the gensets’ exhaust does a bypass arrangement, as at least one genset will always be on-line.
- The project is...
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Valmet Wins Deal To Supply Scrubbers for Seven 23,000-Teu HMM Ships
- HMM placed order for 20 eco-friendly containership, 12 with capacity 23,000-TEUs and eight with 14,000-TEUs of capacity.
- Valmet to supply scrubber system for 7 out of the 12 largest 23,000-TEU containerships being built at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering.
- The installation of the exhaust gas cleaning system will allow the giant boxships to continue burning the 3.5% high sulphur bunker fuel beyond 1 January 2020.
- Out of more than 100 ships in HMM’s fleet, 44 are scrubber fitted.
- The KRW...
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Open Loop Scrubbers Viable for 80-90% of Global Shipping
- Yara Marine sees 80-90% open loop scrubbers feasible, though a growing number of countries and regions around the world are introducing bans on the same.
- Some studies shown no real environmental impact by open loop bans.
- Few maintain that the effects of wash water have yet to be assessed or may even be harmful, or for reasons other than environmental concern.
- Open loop scrubbers, do not perform effectively in water with low alkalinity, so systems supplying alkali in a closed loop are required.
http://mfame.guru/open-loop-scrubbers-viable-for-80-90-of-global-shipping/