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The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have selected Hamworthy Krystallon exhaust gas cleaning as the preferred technology to take forward trials aiming to cut sulphur emissions and particulate matter from ships burning heavy fuel oil in port.
The trials, which are set to begin this spring, will see the environmental solution installed on board APL England, a 5,500 TEU container vessel trading between Asia and the US. The system will allow APL to continue using low-cost residual fuels for their auxiliary engines, as per the IMO ECA rules. The technology virtually eradicates sulphur emissions, cutting them by 99.9% even when burning residual fuel oil. Additional environmental benefits accrue to the Hamworthy system, which also cuts emissions of particulate matter by up to 85% and nitrogen oxide emissions by up to 10%.
Hamworthy is working alongside US eco-bank Bluefield Holdings in the project, which will see the installation filter out solid contaminants from the exhaust of the ship’s auxiliary engines before they leave the funnel. Seawater is then treated and cleaned before being discharged from the ship.
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