Auramarine Ltd, a leading manufacturer of heavy fuel oil supply systems and other auxiliary units for marine and power station engines is now applying its wide ranging experience in liquid flows to a new sector that benefits the environment.
Auramarine is bringing out Auramarine Crystal Ballast, Ballast Water Treatment System (BWTS). Thanks to technological innovations featured in this system, it is energy-efficient, compact and easy to install. Additionally, Auramarine’s solution does not affect the time required for ballasting or deballasting operations, or increase the duration of port calls.
Auramarine’s solution is based on utilising UV-C radiation. The UV-C solution presents many advantages, and the technology concerned is already familiar. It is already used in treating drinking water and wastewater. The advantages of using UV radiation, a purely physical disinfection process, are that no harmful byproducts are formed in the process, nor does it require the production or storage of chemicals on board. The system presents no danger of overdose or under dose, as only naturally occurring processes are used. The process does not result in any changes in the physical parameters of the water, such as its pH value, temperature, salinity, taste, odour, or colour. The project is currently undergoing an intensive type approval testing phase; the final products are expected to reach the market in the second half of 2010.
