Wärtsilä and Maersk To Develop Corrosion Mitigation Strategy

Wärtsilä and Maersk have joined in an attempt to prevent ’severe corrosion’ from scrubber washwater causing damage to pipes and vessel hulls, reports Riviera.

Corrosion

According to Wärtsilä and Maersk, the acidity of scubber washwater discharged out of pipes directly into the ocean from the open-loop scrubber configurations that make up the majority of the estimated 5,000 scrubber systems installed on the global shipping fleet has a “particularly high” chance of corroding “mild steel”.

“Under IMO...

https://mfame.guru/acidity-of-scrubber-discharge-spawns-corrosion-mitigation-strategy/

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