Desmi Ocean Guard has launched its ne ballast water management system (BWMS) CompactClean. With the new product the company intents to set new standards for small footprint, reliable performance and certainty of meeting both the international and US discharge standards.
The syste[ds_preview]m is named CompactClean and the name reflects that this system sets a new standard for how small the footprint of a BWMS can get. At the same time, the system is carefully designed and optimized to provide reliable and compliant treatment of ballast water under all operational conditions encountered by a ship in worldwide trade the company stated.
The CompactClean BWMS consists of an automatic backflushing filter, a UV unit, valves, sensors, and controls. The UV unit has a unique and patent pending shape which is the result of hundreds of state of the art numerical simulations the manufacturer informed. This shape ensures optimum dosage of the UV to all organisms in the water, and the result is a system that can meet even the very strict USCG type approval requirements.
Furthermore, the system includes many features that are of importance to the daily operation. One example is automatic generation of PDF reports that document all the performed ballast water treatment, in a format that is suitable for submission to local port state authorities and others. Another example is that the system includes a pump that can be used as stripping pump under ballast stripping operations, thus solving one of the main problems for ballast water management system installations today.
The CompactClean BWMS is currently undergoing type approval testing according to both IMO and USCG requirements, under the surveillance of Lloyd’s Register. It is expected that type approval certificates will be in hand around May 2018.
