The Coast Guard Marine Safety Center has actually released the 38th UNITED STATE Coast Guard Ballast Water Management System Type Approval Certificate to Knutsen Ballast Water AS after a thorough evaluation of the supplier’s kind authorization application figured out the system satisfied the demands of 46 CFR 162.060.
The therapy concept of the KBAL BWMS is based upon utilizing a stress vacuum cleaner activator in mix with UV radiation at consumption and also discharge. The USCG authorization covers 2 designs with optimum therapy ranked capabilities of 400 cubic meters/h and also 3,000 cubic meters/h.
According to Knutsen, the BWMS makes use of a modern technology that it has actually established, trademarked and also set up on a number of shuttle bus vessels.
The stress vacuum cleaner activator operating in mix with an upright ballast water go down line, guarantees a reduced temperature level steaming problem that removes most of the microorganisms. Any continuing to be germs are efficiently gotten rid of by a UV chamber placed down stream of the stress vacuum cleaner activator.
Due to the extremely reliable and also small stress vacuum cleaner activator, the system does not require any kind of filters neither chemicals, therefore a minimal foot print is guaranteed.
The KBAL control software application, states Knutsen, enables the driver to change easily in between globally setting and also IMOeco setting. For port state authorities the system will conveniently produce a record recording that ballast water procedures are certified and also have actually been executed based on the laws.
