Oslo, Norway, headquartered Yara Marine Technologies records that an in-line crossbreed scrubber system set up on vessel with an 80 MW 2 stroke primary engine has actually effectively finished MARPOL screening.
This is the biggest ship engine so far fitted with an inline crossbreed scrubber system.
The vessel, run by a concealed consumer, is an ultra huge containership as well as the Yara scrubber system likewise covers the ship’s 5 (each about 5 MW) supporting engines.
“The installation of Yara Marine’s inline hybrid SOx scrubber on the vessel confirms our customer’s commitment to protect the environment, not only from IMO-regulated SOx emissions, but also Particulate Matter (PM) and other hazardous substances from exhaust gas,” states Yara Marine Chief Sales & & Marketing Officer Kai Låtun. “We appreciate our customers’ environmental strategies and we want to support them in the accomplishment of these ambitions. With the successful operation of this ultra-large container ship, we believe more vessel operators will follow in the same direction.”
Yara Marine states the effective MARPOL examination is a verification of the scalability of the firm’s scrubbers as well as their capacity to offer reliable SOx therapy on bigger vessels.
“We believe that with the successful MARPOL test on the vessel, we have inspired and convinced more shipowners about the feasibility of Yara Marine scrubbers,” states Yara Marine CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Peter Strandberg.
