New Hyde Marine Ballast Water Treatment System
Hyde Marine, Inc. recently introduced a new and more powerful shipboard Ballast Water Treatment System. The system design is based on component testing during two different independent research projects. It also benefited from lessons learned from five previously installed systems and from discussions with various regulators including the USCG, IMO, and several US states.
The first new design Hyde system was installed aboard the cruise ship Coral Princess with a ballast pump flow rate of 250 m3/hr. The installation and commissioning was completed in the spring of 2003.
Hyde Marine teamed with Aquionics, the most experienced manufacturer of medium pressure U.V. technology in the world, to offer a robust and powerful UV system as part of the redesigned and higher performance Hyde Marine BWT System. The single chamber Aquionics in-line UV is the most suitable technology for ballast water applications and was proven effective during shipboard trials on the Cape May. It also requires less space than comparable low-pressure UV units.
The Hyde Ballast Water Treatment System (HBTS) also incorporates a reliable and efficient Arkal Galaxy automatic back flush filter. The filter was supplied with both 50 and 100-micron disks, which performed exceptionally well in the Great Lakes project full-scale tests. The recently adopted IMO Ballast Water Control and Management Convention requires removal of virtually all organisms larger than 50 microns as an interim treatment standard.
(Website: http://www.hydemarine.com/whats_new/)
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