Posted - January 21, 2013 - Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide (Green Tech Marine Press Release dated - January 17, 2013)
Green Tech Marine contracted to deliver four of its scrubber units to the Norwegian Cruise Line ship.
The scrubbers will be installed in March during a dry dock in Pearl
Harbor Naval shipyard. They will replace the ships silencers and clean
the exhaust of four, 8 MW engines, in total 32 MW, in what the
manufacturers say is the biggest marine scrubber installation in the
world at this time.
Thanks to the small size of the scrubbers no valuable space for
passengers or crew has to be sacrificed. The system will be a hybrid
system, i.e. the vessel will be able to operate both in open loop as
well as in closed loop.
“The contract is another important step towards convincing ship owners
that exhaust gas cleaning systems is a feasible and less expensive
alternative to running on low sulfur fuel,” says Peter Strandberg,
President and CEO of Green Tech Marine."
He added that there are also other benefits with scrubber`s compared
with Marine Gas Oil (MGO): reduced particulate matter emission, soot
and other particles contributing to global warming.
Source: Green Tech Marine
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