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PRODUCTS

New Water Maker

Sludge Management System

ACO Marine launched a new water recovery system that is designed to give vessel owners

Scienco/FAST has introduced a new greater capacity to reuse the treated ef? uent way to deal with sludge with its standard from wastewater treatment plants.

MarineFAST Marine Sanitation Device,

ACO which meets MEPC.159(55) or providing

The ACO Water Maker WM3 converts treated secondary treatment, incorporating about wastewater into pure distilled technical water for such applications as general one month of internal sludge storage or surface cleaning, laundry, showering, toilet ? ushing, engine cooling, etc. Ac- three months with larger systems. For ves- cording to ACO Marine, the unit has extremely low energy consumption and sels requiring a longer period, the Marine- reduces a ship’s need to take on fresh water in port or to make its own water

FAST BMS provides an aerobic sludge through reverse osmosis or ? ash evaporation – both high energy consumers.

digester with long term internal storage to

Scienco/FAST

It is suitable for use onboard all vessel types and can be easily retro? tted to extend the sludge storage.

ACO Marine’s Maripur and Clarimar wastewater treatment solutions in ad-

Operation is completely automatic and hands-free, and the sludge is enclosed dition to third party systems, the manufacturer said. A typical unit has a foot- in tanks and piping – no need for personnel to come into contact with sewage print not dissimilar to the size of a small domestic refrigerator, with water- or sewage sludge. According to the manufacturer, MarineFAST BMS reduc- making capacities ranging from 6,000 to 24,000 liters per day. es sludge volume by 65% compared with other systems. No strainers, ? lters,

The water maker reduces the kilowatt power per liter of water produced membranes or centrifuges are required. Vents are used to weather through the compared with conventional methods and can cut wastewater dumping sig-

FAST unit; no separate vent piping required. The system does not affect the ni? cantly. The unit also ful? ls the function for vessels requiring freshwater dimensions, weights or operation of the FAST unit. generation redundancy. The ACO WM3 uses a hybrid technology of asym-

The MarineFAST BMS system uses an aerobic process with no corrosion or metric selective membrane separation (THASMS) to treat any type of input odor from septic sewage or sewage sludge. Tanks are designed to ABS deep water and remove all forms of biological, bacteriological, mineral, gas or tank standards, protection against corrosion is exceptional and all machinery, toxic contamination. The unit can also take this one step further and add vital piping and controls meet USCG requirements for inspected vessels. When minerals to produce mineral balanced drinking water.

settled, the activated sludge exhibits about 4% concentration in water.

www.acomarine.com www.sciencofast.com

GEA UV Ballast Water Treatment

Ecochlor BWTS

Earlier this year GEA won the ? rst contract for equipping cruise liners with its

UV ballast water treatment system, BallastMaster marineX, powered by Tro- jan Marinex. The contract is to equip two new vessels with one BallastMaster Ballast water treatment technology de- marineX each, as well as an option for equipping a third. The IMO-certi? ed veloper Ecochlor Inc. presented a proj- system, with a throughput capacity of 500 cu. m./hr., features two-phase op- ect case study at CMA Shipping 2015, eration with mechanical pre-? ltration and subsequent disinfection of the bal- a case study which covered the retro? t last water by UV treatment. The scope of delivery also includes 10 separators of Ecochlor’s ballast water treatment for fuel and lube oil treatment of the type OSE with CFR (Certi? ed Flow system (BWTS) aboard the 2007-built

Rate) and two ViscoBooster units for fuel conditioning. With the cruise ship- RoRo car carrier vessel M/V Green Bay

Ecochlor ping business, GEA developed a new area of operation for UV ballast water following an order from International treatment systems in September 2014 at the SMM, only three months af- Shipholding Corporation (ISH) in 2013.

ter the launch of the BallastMaster marine ISH ordered Ecochlor systems for seven of its ships, including vehicle carri- system, powered by Trojan Marinex. “The ers and bulk carriers, to be installed between 2014 and 2016. Installation and cruise industry has been booming without commissioning aboard U.S.-? agged M/V Green Bay, the ? rst ISH vessel to interruption for many years with the result receive the BWTS (a 500 cu. m./hr. system), was completed in 2014 by a ride of full order books at the shipyards. More on crew while the vessel remained in operation. Ecochlor’s scalable BWT than 30 new maritime cruise liners are ex- systems use chlorine dioxide (CIO2) to treat ballast water. Ecochlor is the pected to undock by the end of 2018. This sole patent holder for this technology. Chlorine dioxide, not to be confused is an extremely interesting new market for with chlorine, has been used for more than 60 years across a wide range of our new product line of UV ballast water applications, including the treatment of drinking water, vegetables, etc. It is treatment which we have now extended to especially useful for ballast water treatment in that it is immediately effective include the BallastMaster marine, and we on all organisms and bio-? lm, it does not form byproducts, and is not af- intend to continue to consistently process fected by organics, salinity or temperature. Ecochlor said it has begun United this market,” said Michael Fibbe, Key Ac- States Coast Guard testing in March 2015. The Ecochlor BWTS has previ- count Manager Cruise of the business line ously received International Maritime Organization (IMO) Type Approval marine & energy. and USCG Alternative Management System (AMS) Acceptance.

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