Danish shipping equipment company Bawat has launched a low-cost, environmentally friendly ballast water treatment technology free of filters, chemicals and UV lamps, and powered by waste heat from a ship’s engines. It kills marine organisms quickly and is suitable for most types and sizes of ships, but is most fit for the retrofit market. The new product uses an electrochemical process to remove organic matter in seawater using only sunlight or artificial light. Bawat CEO Kim Diederichsen said the technology has already been installed in four vessels.
Danish shipping equipment company Bawat has launched a low-cost, environmentally friendly ballast water treatment technology free of filters, chemicals and UV lamps, and powered by waste heat from a ship’s engines. It kills marine organisms quickly and is suitable for most types and sizes of ships, but is most fit for the retrofit market. The system has been IMO approved and has obtained a favourable response from the US Coast Guard. Bawat CEO Kim Diederichsen said the technology has already been installed in four vessels.