Ship&Offshore | Ausgabe 05/2023
New filter system improves ballast water efficiency
Wärtsilä Water and Waste’s Aquarius UV ballast water management system is to have a completely new filter system, Manta, developed by the company’s partner FilterSafe. The Manta filter has a OneMotion scanner that cleans the screen effectively in a single rotation, even with dirty water, and has shown in tests that it exceeds IMO filtration standards by a factor of 22 without any reduction in flow rate. The Manta filter, type-approved by Bureau Veritas, has undergone organic load tests at the DHI test facilities in Denmark....