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SHIP REFIT BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

Candy, Scieco InTank Dedeurwaerder, Bio-SEA Marshall, Ecochlor

BWMS: FIT FOR REFIT

Since the ballast water management system discussion started, a clear concern was the ability to ? t new equipment on existing ships, placing a strain on both space and power. Last month MR caught up with a few key suppliers to for their insights on market development.

How many BWMS have you sold and How is your system optimized for installed to date? ef? cient re? t?

Maxime Dedeurwaerder, BIO-UV Candy, Scienco InTank

Last year has proven to be the best on re- Installations of InTank have been com- cord, with roughly 200 BIO-Sea units de- pleted at sea on vessels up to Cape Size. livered. All told, we have about 700 units With prefabrication of piping, and small in service or pending commissioning and size of the hardware there is great ? ex- almost 100 units on order. ibility in how a retro? t can be success- fully executed. This year has also seen

Andrew Marshall, CEO, Ecochlor Scienco/FAST design InTank FITT, pic-

Ecochlor has installed 317 systems, with tured. At only 0.5m2, also ? lter-less, it another 54 on order, for a total of 371. is a quantum leap forward for both cost and installation simplicity in the smaller

Giles Candy, Scienco InTank end of the commercial vessel market. We

In 2022 Scienco/FAST sold a dozen In- are looking forward to the ? rst installa-

Tank systems and completed 14 instal- tions in 2023. While InTank involves lations. Currently most sales are to op- the installation of signi? cant additional erators like Boskalis, Vallianz, Saipem. piping in a retro? t context, it is small

Their vessels, with semi-submersible op- diameter straight run. There is no ? tting erations, bene? t using InTank because all of large diameter pipes to ? lters barely treatment and neutralization happens in squeezed into pump rooms. InTank does the ballast tanks; a semi-sub can arrive on not use ? lters, and apart from the <1m2

Image courtesy Scienco/FAST site with all tanks treated and neutralized. Dosing Module (installed by the ballast

The new Scienco/FAST InTank FITT pump / line), InTank’s small modules

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