OceanSaver Delivers Water Treatment System for Oil Tanker

Oceansaver has achieved a milestone for the ballast water treatment industry with the commissioning of the first treatment system to include filters on a crude oil tanker in Korea. OceanSaver's Mark I technology has been installed, which includes filtration, cavitation, disinfection and nitrogen super saturation. The filter and cavitation units are installed in the vessel's pump room with the disinfection unit and nitrogen system in the engine room and casing area, respectively.  

The 159.000 DWT Suezmax tanker, Ottoman Integrity, is being delivered from a Korean shipyard for Turkish owner Gungen Maritime & Trading, and the installed OceanSaver system is capable of treating ballast water at a rate of 2 x 2.500m3/h.

 

Filtration of sediment and biological material from the uptake water is achieved by in-organic fully automatic back-flushing filters. At the shipowner's request, the filters were operated for over 70 hours during sea trial, without any operational issues or constraints, performing according to specifications and yard, owner, class, charter and OceanSaver's full satisfaction.

 

Owner Osman Gungen picked up the vessel's first cargo end November where the OceanSaver system was part of normal operations. The nitrogen super saturation component offers shipowner's the potential for reduced vessel maintenance costs through the improved corrosion performance of inerted ballast tanks. It is particularly suited to newbuildings or high specification, specialist vessels and is an optional item in the OceanSaver Mark II system, according to Tor Atle Eiken, senior vice president Sales & Marketing.