PARSIPPANY, New Jersey's Belco Technologies, a DuPont unit has reached an agreement with AP Moller-Maersk to design, manufacture and supply the BELCO advanced marine scrubbing system for demonstration on one of the auxiliary engines aboard the 8,100-TEU Maersk Taurus.The system will be installed aboard the ship, now on the Asia-Europe service, if tests prove successful, said a Belco statement.
The hope is to show that the exhaust gas cleaning system to reduce SO2 from ship engines and boilers will be cheaper than using low sulphur fuel when operating in SO2 restricted areas known as emission control area (ECA) zones.
Maersk has already switched to the costly low-sulphur fuel when in the Port of Singapore where it calls 500 times a year. Eighty per cent Maersk ships calling at Singapore have switched from heavy fuel oil, or bunker, to the more expensive, less polluting fuel.
Belco said the technology allows a ship to meet the International Maritime Organisation's (IMO) ECA zones (or EU Ports) mandate of 0.1 per cent sulphur even when using bunker with sulphur content of 3.5 per cent or more.
Bo Cerup-Simonsen, head of Maersk Maritime Technology, said: "We have been investigating SOx scrubber technologies. We are pleased with our partnership with Belco and trust it will bring further understanding in improving environmental performance in a cost-effective manner."
Said Belco vice president Nick Confuorto: "This demonstration will allow us to fine-tune our design for on-board installations. It opens up new possibilities and will allow AP Moller-Maersk to have an option that will provide long-term fuel cost savings. We are proud to have AP Moller-Maersk as one of our initial customers for our marine scrubbing design."
Source : HKSG, 04.10.11.
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