Ship&Offshore | Issue 06/2023
Efficient pre-filtration
For fine filtering within ballast water treatment systems, Germany’s Haver & Boecker, a specialist in metal wire mesh products and packaging technology, offers 2D and 3D woven wire cloth with square or rectangular meshes as well as Minimesh® S filter cloth. Modern ballast water treatment systems are based either on chemical processes such as ozone disinfection or chlorination for disinfection or on physical processes such as irradiation with ultraviolet light, Haver & Boecker noted. However, these multi-stage systems are usually preceded by mechanical purification in the form of a filter....