A Disruptive Solution
Onboard desulphurization system. A disruptive solution for low sulfur fuels availability.
The desulphurization system is another addition to the portfolio of technologic possibilities available to shipowners and ship operators to deal with envisaged lack of low sulfur fuels around the world. This solution, allows the use of high viscosity and high-density fuels as before, treating these fuels onboard, and disposing of the removed sulfur compounds (sulphones and sulphoxides) ashore.
TecnoVeritas has been involved for more than 20 years with ship energy efficiency. Pursuing the research and development of technology based on water in fuel emulsions assisted by ultrasounds, resulted in a spin-off technology that may be playing a decisive solution for the use of low sulfur fuels on board existing vessels.
The patented Ultrasound Assisted Desulphurisation technology by TecnoVeritas, when installed onboard, allow the ship to bunker virtually any quality of fuel to be bunkered, including the fuel with 3.5% sulfur, the only available in many parts of the world.
The system, based on ultrasounds make use of onboard produced reactants as well to promote the sulfur oxidation at low temperatures, as sulphones and sulphoxides that can be disposed of with other slop oils. Other reactants used are cheap, and regenerated during the process, by using waste heat on board.
The system has been in operation at laboratory scale for about one year, undergoing analytic tests and optimization, although an industrial scale, a slop oil treatment plant ashore, in Setúbal, Portugal, is equipped with one such desulphurization unit with a throughput of 6 tons per hour.
Hyundai Heavy Industries, have demonstrated a great interest in this desulphurization technology, being under negotiation with an MOU, to offer the technology for new constructions.
The system is to be delivered in a skid and is available with capacities up to 6 ton per hour.
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Dear Sir,
Good day..
This is Serene Tseng, CEO from Ocean Group Inc.,( http://www.ocean-trade.com.tw/). An integration service provider for shipping industry in China and Taiwan.
We are professional ship technical service and integrated service providers. Our company is started by the shipbuilding supervision, and has done many different types of ships. We have professional experience in shipbuilding or modification, and have a number of excellent engineers, and these engineers are distributed in Asian ports.
At present, the development and research of desulfurization technology is the main business direction of our company in recent years. The modification of the EGCS is also the main project we have been carrying out recently.
We have learned that desulphurization technology for applying on HFO/marine fuel to meet IMO Sulphur regulations from your company so information which we thought it might be the alternative way to meet IMO requirement.
To apply the new technology to marine industry, we are looking for the chance to replace with the scrubber.
In order to meet the IMO regulation, Scrubbers is the only option for shipowners now, or keep using LSFO as the only fuel.
As we expected, your product might be the alternative way to meet IMO requirement if shipowner choose to use HSFO.
Therefore, we are very interested in the products and technology of your company. If you are the same with our company, please contact us, and please provide information about desulfurization of your company.
Looking forward to hear from you.