Spliethoff has equipped its first multi-purpose vessels, the MV Schippersgracht and MV Suomigracht and its sister company Wijnne Barends' MV Lady Claudia, with a scrubber.
Now the first three months of trialling are over, Spliethoff can look back at successful scrubber installations.
Seawater Shower
The trial with scrubbers on board the multi-purpose vessels is another step in developing alternative compliance methods for the stricter SECA sulphur regulation. The gigantic shower uses seawater to reduce the vessel’s sulphur emissions to a level well below the 0.1 per cent sulphur limit imposed by the IMO regulations for the North Sea and the Baltic Sea and the 200 NM zone around the USA and Canada, which has taken effect on 1 January 2015.
The trial with scrubbers on multi-purpose vessels, which is now in its concluding phase, followed the successful installation of scrubbers onboard the six conro vessels of sister-company Transfennica.
Alva Laval Scrubbers
In the period December 2014 through January 2015, the Spliethoff vessels were equipped with an Alfa Laval Pure SOx scrubber at the Remontowa drydock in Gdansk, Poland. The scrubber is single inlet (connected to the vessels’ Wärtsillä main engine of 12’060kW). Its tower is placed aft of the vessels’ accommodation and the pumps are squeezed in the engine room. The scrubbers clean practically all sulphur from the exhaust gas, rendering the sulphur emissions far below the legal requirement.
The European Union co-financed the scrubber trial with MV Schippersgracht, MV Suomigracht and MV Lady Claudia) under the TEN-T funding programme.
