Multi-vessel BWT contract for Hyde
Hyde Marine has been awarded a contract from an unnamed major South Korean shipbuilder to supply ballast water treatment (BWT) systems for several 157,000 dwt SuezMax crude oil tankers being built for a Greek owner.
10 ship-sets will be delivered between May 2011 and March 2013. US company Hyde Marine says this is its first large tanker project. The scope of supply encompasses explosion-proof UV reactors and newly-developed Superflow high capacity, auto-back flush disk filters. The company belives this to be among the largest BWT system orders placed to date, totalling just over $19.8 million.
Each tanker will have two 2500m3/hr capacity explosion-proof systems, one for each ballast pump, and one 450 m3/hr standard skid-mounted system for the after peak tank. Total treatment capacity per ship is 5,450m3/hr. The BWT equipment will be fully integrated into the ships’ ballast control systems.
The IMO type approved,chemical free Guardian is said to offer a compact, modular design, low power consumption scaled according to capacity, low pressure drop, and simple, fully automatic operation, claimed to make the system technically attractive and cost-effective for any type of vessel. The system uses auto-back flush filtration and UV disinfection and can be adapted to fit the available space on an existing vessel or can be installed as a skid mounted integrated package. The company says that its design has been proven during more than seven years of continuous service onboard the cruise ship Coral Princess. This system, which was installed in 2003 and provided the platform for IMO G8 type approval testing in 2008, has operated with the originally installed equipment including the UV lamps through 2010.
