Ballast water treatment without the chemicals

GEA Westfalia says that the BallastMaster ultraV meets the increasing demands for cost and resource efficiency in ship operations and the “growing importance of sustainable management” which has resulted in repeated critical examination of shipping companies and shipbuilders in recent years.

Ballast water on board has traditionally been treated with the use of chemicals, resulting in corresponding detrimental effects for the environment as well as material costs.

As ultrasound is used for the self-cleaning of the lamps, no infection with by-products occur.

The BallastMaster ultraV has a modular structure and is therefore suited both to use in the construction of new ships and for retrofitting.

The system has already been certified under IMO regulations and will launched at SMM 2012 .

Ballast water treatment is a central issue to shipping and the environment, especially since the IMO’s Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention, intended to prevent damage to local ecosystems by invasive species of marine micro-organisms carried in ships’ ballast water, is expected to enter into force within the next two years.